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Montréal 2006 Welcomes a Major New Sponsor:
Bell Canada Enterprises

Montréal, 25 April 2005 — “Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE Inc.) has chosen to become one of the corporate sponsors of 1st World Outgames Montréal 2006,” Mr. Mark Bruneau, Executive Vice-President and Chief Strategy Officer of the internationally respected communications company, announced today. “We would like to promote the values that inform our involvement in Canada’s communities by recognizing the economic and cultural contribution an event of this scale will make.” Mr. Bruneau has also kindly accepted the Honorary Presidency of la Nuit d’Or Gala evening on 1 September 2005, a fundraising gala for the Montréal 2006 bursary programme to benefit athletes with limited financial resources.

“Montréal 2006,” said Ms. Louise Roy, Montréal 2006 CEO, “is extremely proud and pleased to welcome BCE as a sponsor-partner, at one of the highest levels of contribution in the 1st World Outgames sponsorship structure. Today, BCE is sending an important signal, one that represents recognition, not only for our community, but also recognition of the hard work that hundreds of volunteers contribute to making Montréal 2006 a success.”

Sponsors

With the arrival of BCE, Montréal 2006 now has about fifteen private sponsors, in addition to the support of the Governments of Canada and of Québec, the City of Montréal and some 40 media partners around the world. So far, sponsors have invested a total 14 million dollars, in cash, goods or services, in the 1st World Outgames Montréal 2006. “With just 18 months to go before the opening of the Outgames,” added Ms. Roy, “we are confident that we have the financial means to make this event an incredible success.”

About BCE

Bell Canada Enterprises is Canada's largest communications company. For more than a century now, BCE, known simply as “Bell” in the everyday language of its millions of customers, provides local telephone, long distance, wireless communications, Internet access, data, satellite television and other services to residential and business customers through some 27 million customer connections.

About Montréal 2006

With more than 4,000 registrations already received, the 1st World Outgames Montréal 2006 will soon be heading into the home stretch of a marathon that began in 2000 and that will culminate with the opening of the International Conference on LGBT rights on 26 July 2006, followed by the Opening Ceremony in the Olympic Stadium on 29 July 2006, which will mark the beginning of seven days of sport competitions and cultural activities.

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