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Bell Canada completed its take-over bid for all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Nexxlink Technologies Inc. in a transaction with an aggregate value of approximately CDN$67 million.  The offer made by 4257049 Canada Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bell Canada, expired on February 21, 2005. The shares tendered to the bid represented approximately 89.2% of the aggregate number of common shares outstanding of Nexxlink, a provider of integrated information technology solutions.  On April 7, 2005, Nexxlink became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bell Canada as a result of its amalgamation with 4257049 Canada Inc. which was approved at a special shareholders’ meeting held on that date and called for that purpose.

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2005