Leading North American companies to present at CIBC World Markets' Whistler Institutional Investor Conference February 19 & 20, 2004 TORONTO, Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- More than 60 leading corporations across North America will present theirbusiness strategies and 2004 outlooks for their respective industries at the 7th annual CIBC World Markets' Institutional Investor Conference in Whistler, British Columbia. The conference-CIBC World Market's largest annual investor event-will be held from February 19th to 20th. Seven major industry sectors will be featured including Oil & Gas, Power & Utilities, Media & Telecom, Technology, Mining, Diversified and Paper and Forest Products. The conference is by invitation only. Media are invited to participate only by accessing the webcast. More information on the conference including an agenda and a list of planned speakers is available at http://www.cibcwm.com/conferences/whistler2004. Webcast access to the conference will be available beginning at 11 am ET (8 am PT) on Thursday, February 19th at the same website URL. CIBC World Markets is a full service corporate and investment bank throughout North America, with operations in Asia, Europe and Australia, and serving more than 8,000 corporate, government and institutional clients. CIBC World Markets' parent company is CIBC, one of North America's first and largest financial institutions with offices in 18 countries, including the world's major financial centers. A publicly traded financial services company, CIBC has assets of US$180.9 billion and a market capitalization of almost US$11.2 billion. DATASOURCE: CIBC World Markets CONTACT: Media Contact: Stephen Forbes, Vice President, Marketing and Communications, (416) 956-6021,

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