Business and Professional Group

Specialty Technical Publishers is one of North America's premier publishers of comprehensive technical manuals that provide companies with necessary legal, audit and compliance information in areas including environmental law, occupational health and safety, transportation, training and business law.
Its website is found at www.stpub.com.

CD-Pharma develops accredited interactive multi-media continuing medical education programs on CD-ROM, as well as interactive videos and print media packages geared towards the health care community.
Its website is found at www.cdpharma.com.

Eco Log ERIS is an electronic information and report service provider that accesses key federal, provincial and private sector databases to help identify potential environmental risks in Canada for real estate developers, banks, insurance companies and a variety of other customers.
Its website is found at www.ecologeris.com.

Fundata provides investment fund related electronic and print information and analytics to the Canadian and global investment community and a wide variety of Canadian newspapers and media. Fundata has a leading market share in its industry and is "top of mind" particularly as it relates to listings information.
Glacier owns 50% of Fundata.
Its website is found at www.fundata.com.

Newspaper and Trade Group

Business Information Group is Canada's largest publisher of trade magazines, online magazines, directories and mailing lists and is one of Canada's largest business-to-business database marketing firms specializing in gathering and disseminating information to clients. BIG's portfolio of publications includes 43 trade magazines, 28 directories and 35 web sites. BIG focuses on 17 vertical markets including automotive, communication, construction, dental, energy, environment, financial, insurance, manufacturing, medical & laboratory, mining, occupational health & safety, plastics, pulp & paper, retail, reference & education and transportation & trucking.
Its website is found at www.businessinformationgroup.ca.

Western Producer Publications publishes The Western Producer, Canada's largest paid circulation farm publication, Acreage Life, and a variety of supplements and guides including Farm Computer Guide, The Canola & Pulse Crops Producer, The Western Buyers Guide, The Saskatchewan Seed Guide and See Scenic Saskatchewan. WPP also serves as a custom publisher for a number of industry suppliers.
Its website is found at www.producer.com.

Farm Business Communications publishes a number of targeted farm business magazines, periodicals and regional newspapers, including Grainews, Country Guide, Country Guide Ontario, Canola Guide, Canadian Cattlemen, The Manitoba Co-operator, Wheat Oats and Barley, Alberta Express, Big Dealer, Disease Weeds & Insects, Corn & Soy Guide and other specialty publications.
Farm Business Communications also operates in partnership with IRON Solutions www.ironsolutions.com to provide Western Canadian equipment dealers with marketing solutions that employ software, online and print tools, delivered in one intergrated package.
Farm Business Communications' website is found at www.agcanada.com.

The Glacier Newspaper Group publishes and prints community and daily newspapers and related publications, which are the primary source of information for the communities they serve. These operations include:

• Saskatchewan   The Assiniboia Times, The Carlyle Observer, The Estevan Mercury, Estevan Lifestyles, The Southeast Trader Express, Yorkton This Week and Yorkton This Week Marketplace, The Tisdale Recorder, The LaRonge Northerner, The Parkland Review, The Hudson Bay Post Review, East Central Connection, The Naicam News, The Weyburn Review and Weyburn and Area Booster, Weyburn This Week, The Yorkton News Review and News Review Extra, the Battlefords News Optimist, Optimist/Ad Post, Northwest Neighbours, The Maidstone Mirror, Humboldt Journal, the Regional Trader, the Unity Northwest Herald, the Wilkie Press, the Redvers Optimist, the Pipeline New and the Northern Visions Gazette.

• Manitoba   The Wheat City Journal, the Thompson Citizen, the Nickel Belt News, the Corner Pocket Flyer, the Melita New Era, the Deloraine Times & Star, the Reston Recorder, the Souris Plaindealer, the Flin Flon Reminder, Cottage North and the Virden Empire Advance.

• Alberta   Glacier owns i) 50% of Great West Newspapers, which publishes the St. Albert Gazette, See Magazine, FFWD Weekly, Red Deer Express, Okotoks Western Wheel, Okotoks Weekender, St. Paul Journal, Elk Point Review, Bonnyville Nouvelle, Lakeland Regional, Rocky View Weekly, Carstairs Courier, Wheel & Deal, Barrhead Leader, Westlock News, Athabasca Advocate, Town & Country, Lac La Biche Post, Olds Albertan, Innisfail Province, Sundre Round Up, Didsbury Review and Mountain View Gazette, ii) 59% of Alta Newspaper Group, which pubilshes the Lethbridge Herald, Medicine Hat News, Sunny South News, Vauxhall Advance, Bow Island County Commentator, Taber Times, Prairie Post, The Pipeline, The Southern Times, and Farm News. ANGLP also owns a group of newspapers in Saskatchewan including the Shaunavon Standard, Maple Creek News and Southwest Advance Times and iii) the Saint City News.

• British Columbia   Whistler Question, Squamish Chief, Lillooet Bridge River News, the Sunshine Coast Reporter, the Powell River Peak, Nelson Daily News, West Kootenay Weekender, Cranbrook Daily Townsman, Kimberley Daily Bulletin, East Kootenay Weekly Extra, East Kootenay Weekly Weekender, Trail Times, Fernie Free Press, Grand Forks Gazette, Grand Forks Boundary Bulletin, Creston Valley Advance, Kamloops Daily News, Kamloops The Extra, Prince George Citizen, Prince George This Week, Prince George Extra, Alaska Highway News, North Peace Express, The Northerner, Peace River Block News, The Regional Advertiser, The Northern Horizon, The Mirror, Prince Rupert Daily News, Prince Rupert Daily News Extra, Merritt News, Merritt News Extra, Cariboo Advisor, Quesnel Advisor, 100 Mile House Advisor, Coast Mountain Advisor, the Real Estate Weekly and Kodiak Press.

• Quebec   The Sherbrooke Record and Brome County News.

• Ontario   The Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal.

The Business In Vancouver Media Group publishes Business in Vancouver (a weekly business paper) and related specialty magazines, the Western Investor (a commercial and industrial real estate publication), the Employment Paper, the Better Business Bureau Pages (a telephone directory) and the Visitor's Choice tourist magazines. The BIVMG publications are primarily based in the Vancouver area, except for the Western Investor which is distributed across western Canada.
Its websites are found at www.biv.com, www.westerninvestor.com, www.employmentinvancouver.com, www.visitorschoice.com.