S&P Dow Jones Indices Announces Changes to the S&P/TSX Canadian Indices

Results of the Quarterly Review of the S&P/TSX Composite Index

Toronto, Ontario, September 9, 2016 – S&P Dow Jones Canadian Index Services will make the following changes in the S&P/TSX Canadian Indices after the close of trading on Friday, September 16, 2016:

S&P/TSX COMPOSITE INDEX

ADDITIONS Issue Name Symbol Capped Sector Indices Altus Group Limited AIF Real Estate Asanko Gold Inc. AKG Materials Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. IVN Materials Klondex Mines Ltd. KDX Materials Morneau Shepell Inc. MSI Industrials Sandstorm Gold Ltd. SSL Materials Sleep Country Holdings Inc. ZZZ Consumer Discretionary Spartan Energy Corp. SPE Energy DELETIONS Issue Name Symbol Capped Sector Indices Avigilon Corp. AVO Concordia International Corp. CXR Health Care

Changes to the S&P/TSX Composite Index will also affect the S&P/TSX Completion, Capped Composite and Equal Weight Composite Indices. Stocks added to or removed from the S&P/TSX Composite Index will also be added to or removed from the appropriate Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) sector index.

NOTE: Brookfield Business Partners LP (TSX:BBU.UN) will be added to the S&P/TSX Income Trust Index and the S&P/TSX Capped Industrials Index after the close of trading on Friday, September 16, 2016. NOTE: Corporation (TSX:TRI) will be removed from the S&P/TSX Capped Consumer Discretionary Index and added to the S&P/TSX Capped Financials Index after the close of trading on Friday, September 16, 2016.

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S&P/TSX GLOBAL GOLD INDEX

ADDITIONS Issue Name Symbol Exchange Argonaut Gold Inc. AR TSX Continental Gold Inc. CNL TSX Seabridge Gold Inc. SA NYSE Teranga Gold Corp. TGZ TSX

S&P/TSX GLOBAL MINING INDEX

ADDITIONS Issue Name Symbol Exchange Argonaut Gold Inc. AR TSX Continental Gold Inc. CNL TSX Dundee Precious Metals Inc. DPM TSX NexGen Energy Ltd. NXE TSX Seabridge Gold Inc. SA NYSE Silvercorp Metals Inc. SVM TSX Stornoway Diamond Corporation SWY TSX Teranga Gold Corp. TGZ TSX

S&P/TSX EQUAL WEIGHT GLOBAL GOLD INDEX

ADDITIONS Issue Name Symbol Exchange Asanko Gold Inc. AKG TSX Endeavour Mining Corporation EDV TSX Guyana Goldfields Inc. GUY TSX Klondex Mines Ltd. KDX TSX McEwen Mining Inc. MUX NYSE Premier Gold Mines Ltd. PG TSX Sandstorm Gold Ltd. SSL TSX Silver Standard Resources Inc. SSO TSX Tahoe Resources Inc. THO TSX

S&P/TSX COMPOSITE DIVIDEND INDEX

ADDITIONS Issue Name Symbol Altus Group Limited AIF Morneau Shepell Inc. MSI Sleep Country Canada Holdings Inc. ZZZ

DELETIONS Issue Name Symbol Concordia International Corp. CXR

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S&P/TSX COMPOSITE HIGH DIVIDEND INDEX

ADDITIONS Issue Name Symbol DH Corporation DH Dominion Diamond Corporation DDC Financial Corp. MFC Morneau Shepell Inc. MSI

DELETIONS Issue Name Symbol Bonavista Energy Corporation BNP Canadian Western CWB Inc. RCI.B Westshore Terminals Investment Corporation WTE

S&P/TSX 60 ESG INDEX

ADDITIONS Issue Name Symbol Inc. EMA

S&P/TSX COMPOSITE HIGH BETA INDEX

ADDITIONS Issue Name Symbol Manulife Financial Corp. MFC Pason Systems Inc. PSI Spartan Energy Corp. SPE West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. WFT

DELETIONS Issue Name Symbol Concordia International Corp. CXR ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. PLI Russel Metals Inc. RUS Inc. SU

S&P/TSX COMPOSITE LOW VOLATILITY INDEX

ADDITIONS Issue Name Symbol Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. AQN Fortis Inc. FTS MacDonald Dettwiler & Associates Ltd. MDA Morneau Shepell Inc. MSI Northview Apartment REIT NVU.UN

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DELETIONS Issue Name Symbol Agrium Inc. AGU IGM Financial Inc. IGM Industrial Alliance Insurance & Financial Serv. Inc. IAG of Canada NA North West Company Inc. NWC

S&P/TSX HIGH INCOME ENERGY INDEX

DELETIONS Issue Name Symbol Bonavista Energy Corporation BNP Enerplus Corporation ERF

S&P/TSX RENEWABLE ENERGY & CLEAN TECHNOLOGY INDEX

ADDITIONS Issue Name Symbol 5N Plus Inc. VNP Electrovaya Inc. EFL Orbite Technologies Inc. ORT Polaris Infrastructure Inc. PIF SunOpta Inc. SOY

DELETIONS Issue Name Symbol Hydrogenics Corporation HYG Westport Fuel Systems Inc. WPT

S&P/TSX CAPPED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDEX

DELETIONS Issue Name Symbol UrtheCast Corp. UR

S&P/TSX EQUAL WEIGHT INDUSTRIALS INDEX

ADDITIONS Issue Name Symbol Brookfield Business Partners LP BBU.UN Morneau Shepell Inc. MSI

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S&P/TSX 60 CARBON EFFICIENT SELECT INDEX

ADDITIONS Issue Name Symbol Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. VRX

DELETIONS Issue Name Symbol Blackberry Limited BB

S&P/TSX 60 FOSSIL FUEL FREE CARBON EFFICIENT SELECT INDEX

ADDITIONS Issue Name Symbol Limited CP Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. VRX

DELE TIONS Issue Name Symbol Corporation ABX

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For more information:

Tony North Director, Canadian Index Operations S&P Dow Jones Indices (+) 416 507 3204 [email protected]

David Blitzer Managing Director and Chairman of the Index Committee S&P Dow Jones Indices (+) 212 438 3907 [email protected]

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