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Online Banking for Business Platform Significantly Enhances Customer Experience

- Two-in-three expect to buy a gift to celebrate Dad

- Women more likely to get Dad a gift, while men plan to spend more

- Report shows what Dads across Canada can expect

- Gift of contributing to a TFSA provides grads with tax-free growth

- The majority (64 per cent) of Canadians are knowledgeable about TFSAs while 44 per cent have a TFSA

- Average annual TFSA contribution is $3,700

Bank's Deputy General Counsel named 'Tomorrow's Leader' at Canadian General Counsel Awards

- Affordability is the key influencer on family vacation planning

- More Canadians plan to travel within the country- Canada has a lot to offer including the Calgary Stampede in its centennial year

- Family Financial Tip #3- plan ahead and set a budget for your family vacation

- Number of stay-at-home dads has tripled in the past 30 years

- More than half of Canadians say their family would have to spend less on cars, travel and luxury items if one parent decided to stay home and take care of the kids; 49 per cent feel their cash flow would be significantly impacted

- BMO provides tips for families living on a single income

BMO is the first Canadian financial institution to offer Canadians an online tool to book branch appointments

- Ramblers the ninth team vying to win 2012 BMO Team of the Week Championship, which includes a $125,000 prize towards a field refurbishment

- Team planning to volunteer as grocery packers to raise money for the Food Bank

- Team vying to win grand prize including $125,000 field refurbishment

- Team has chosen the BC Children's Hospital Foundation to receive $500 cheque on their behalf

According to Statistics Canada, 1.7 million Canadian men are self-employed in Canada - accounting for 65 per cent of total

- 82 percent of men would like to start their own business

- 83 per cent of Canadian men say having access to role models or mentors will be important to their success

- There are over 104,000 new small business start-ups each year in Canada

- New funds respond to investor appetite for income-based products

- Strategies include covered calls, laddered bonds and use of income-based Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)

- BMO study: almost three-quarters of Canadians are interested in generating more income from their investments

BMO releases report on Windsor - outlook for economy, housing and labour market

- Unemployment rate expected to drop to pre-recession levels

- Non-residential construction a bright spot for the coming years

- Positives in auto sector, with higher production

- BMO offering support to Canadian businesses by making an additional $10 billion in credit available over next three years

Combined entity will expand BMO's investment advisory and manager research capabilities in the U.S. and create a leading integrated wealth management firm serving affluent clients

- Large companies planning to grow staffing levels more than smaller businesses

- Post secondary education a major asset to applicants

- The official bank of the Calgary Stampede for the past 100 years prides itself on its focus on families - BMO Farm Family Awards and BMO Kids' Day

- Family Financial Tips offered each week until the start of Stampede

- Alyson Schafer will be in the BMO Kids' Zone for BMO Kids' Day on Wednesday, July 11 to talk to parents and children about basic money management skills

- Historic 1958 "Hitching those bucks to the B of M" advertisement in the Stampede souvenir programme offered banking services onsite

- Winnipeg's Valley Gardens Girls vying to win grand prize which includes a $125,000 prize towards a field refurbishment

- Girls U-9 team participates in charitable events such as the Walk for Muscular Dystrophy

- 6,500 BMO employees will take part in the bank's first North America-wide volunteer day

- 400 projects across Canada and the U.S.

Canadian Businesses Give Facebook a Thumbs Up

- U-11 girl's team has already raised $1,000 for the Salvation Army's Adopt-A-Family program

- Team vying to be 2012 BMO Team of the Week Champion, a title which includes $125,000 towards a field refurbishment

- While Canadians have taken on more debt in the past five years, the majority expect to pay it off in the same amount of time

- Report shows average household debt in Canada is $112,329

- 'Good debt' such as mortgages likely outweighing less favourable forms of borrowing

- Study shows differences between men and women

- BMO employees in Vancouver will be using their gardening skills for a clean-up of Stanley Park

- 6,500 BMO employees will take part in the bank's first North America-wide volunteer day

- 400 projects across Canada and the U.S.

- Almost half of investors see opportunities in times of market volatility

- Vast majority have changed their investing habits because of market uncertainly

- Seventy-two per cent believe that market volatility is the "new normal"

- The study's results were announced today at a presentation hosted by BMO's Wealth Management Group, including BMO Global Asset Management, BMO Nesbitt Burns and BMO Harris Private Banking

- BMO Employees will put on their gardening gloves to spruce up the gardens of DeafBlind Services in Kitchener-Waterloo

- 6,500 BMO employees will take part in the bank's first North America-wide volunteer day

- 400 projects across Canada and the U.S.

- New BMO branch represents a $1.7 million investment in the community

- BMO offers customers extended banking hours, including Saturdays and Sundays

- 'Making Money Make Sense' in 6 different languages

- BMO invites kids and parents to BMO Kid's Day to see the newly designed kids area

- New BMO branch represents a $1.3 million investment into the community

- Offering customers extended banking hours, including Saturdays

- 'Making Money Make Sense' in five different languages

- BMO Employees will be revitalizing the community room at Supportive Housing for Young Mothers (SHYM)

- 6,500 BMO employees will take part in the bank's first North America-wide volunteer day

- More than 500 projects across Canada and the U.S.

- Nearly half of boomers believe their children will struggle with affording a home

- According to BMO Economics, prices have risen nearly twice as fast as income in the past decade

- BMO provides home buying tips for Canada's younger generation of buyers

Aboriginal People are the youngest and fastest growing segment of the Canadian population but continue to be over-represented among Canada's unemployed

- Growth rate amongst Canada's Aboriginal People almost twice the rate of the non-Aboriginal population

- Gap is Widening Between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal People With Post-Secondary Educations - 23 per cent of the non-Aboriginal population has a university degree, yet only 4 per cent of First Nations people have one.

- 64 new beds support needs of elders and their families

- Economic boost to community with up to 80 new jobs

- Team vying for 2012 BMO Team of the Week Champion, a title which includes a $125,000 prize towards a field refurbishment for their club and community

- Acme Dragons have selected the Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation for $500 donation from BMO