CN to be Title Sponsor for CCAA Men's Nationals 

February 19, 2009

UNBC Athletics is proud to announce CN as the title sponsor for the 2009 Canadian Colleges’ Athletic Association (CCAA) Men’s National Basketball Championship. From March 20 to 22, the host team UNBC Northern Timberwolves will welcome the best college basketball teams in the country to the Charles Jago Northern Sport Centre in Prince George.

> Men's Nationals website

Richard Miller, CN's general manager, Mountain Region, who is based in Prince George, said: "We believe there is a clear link between sports, safe and healthy living, and a strong community spirit. That is why we are proud to support this very exciting basketball tournament. When a community is filled with passionate, focused young people, it is a better place for everyone to live, work and play."

Len McNamara, UNBC athletics director, said: “We recognize the importance of CN in our region and thank them for their support of what should be an outstanding basketball tournament.”

The CN 2009 CCAA Men’s Basketball National Championship features the Timberwolves, five conference champions and two wild-card entries in the three-day tournament. The CN CCAA All-Canadian Awards Banquet will be held prior to the tournament on March 19 at the Ramada Hotel in downtown Prince George.

CN employs almost 500 people in Northern British Columbia and nearly 2,100 in British Columbia.

Through the CN Stronger Communities Fund, the company supports health and safety programs for young people, transportation education, the CN Railroaders in the Community employee volunteer grant program, and United Way. As an Imagine Caring Company, CN is committed to contributing one per cent of pre-tax profit to registered, non-profit organizations in communities where our employees work and where we operate our business.

 
CN – Canadian National Railway Company and its operating railway subsidiaries – spans Canada and mid-America, from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to the Gulf of Mexico, serving the ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert, Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the key metropolitan areas of Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Duluth, Minn./Superior, Wis., Green Bay, Wis., Minneapolis/St. Paul, Memphis, and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America. For more information on CN, visit the company’s website at www.cn.ca.

Contact:
Kelli Svendsen, Regional Manager, Public and Government Affairs, CN - 604.589.6512
Kelly Sharp, UNBC Athletics - 250.960.5335