CP's Holiday Train and Meal Exchange team up to spread awareness about helping t

Meal Exchange, a national student-founded, student-driven organization,has given the Holiday Train top profile on their website and is spreading the word to its national network of more than 40 universitiesand colleges.

"After nine successful years of running the Holiday Train program,nothing excites CP more than partnering with a dynamic organization like MealExchange, now on board to collaborate with us in raising food, money andawareness for the 700,000 Canadians who rely on food banks each month," saidMark Seland, Director of Communications and Public Affairs for CanadianPacific. "We expect to have a great youth presence at our events, supportingthis great cause and enjoying the musical talents of our Holiday Trainperformers Wide Mouth Mason and Melanie Doane.

"The Holiday Train is a great fit with Meal Exchange's mandate to provideyoung Canadians meaningful opportunities to help reduce local hunger," saidDave Kranenburg, Executive Director for Meal Exchange. " We are encouragingour large contingent of student volunteers to attend the Holiday Train eventswith donations in hand and, where possible, help their local food banks in theplanning for the Holiday Train's arrival."

Since its launch in 1999, the Holiday Train program has raised over$3 million CDN and close to 1.6 million pounds of food for North American foodbanks. The 2007 Canadian Holiday Train leaves Montreal, PQ on December 1,ending in Port Moody, BC on December 18 (complete schedule is available on). All donations collected in each community remain in thatcommunity for local distribution.

Canadian Pacific

Canadian Pacific, through the ingenuity of its employees located acrossCanada and in the United States, remains committed to being the safest, andmost fluid railway in North America. Our people are the key to deliveringinnovative transportation solutions to our customers and to ensuring the safeoperation of our trains through the more than 900 communities where weoperate. Our combined ingenuity makes Canadian Pacific a better place to work,rail a better way to ship, and North America a better place to live. Come andvisit us at www.cpr.ca to see how we can put our ingenuity to work for you.Canadian Pacific is proud to be the official rail freight services providerfor the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

About Meal Exchange:

Meal Exchange is a national student-founded, student-driven, registeredcharity that helps young Canadians realize their potential to improve thefuture of their communities, by providing them with meaningful opportunitiesto reduce local hunger today. Meal Exchange offers students in a nationalnetwork of 40 universities and colleges, three fun, simple and creativeprograms including Trick or Eat(R), Skip-A-Meal(R) and Clear the Shelves!(R)as well as supporting their own initiatives to address local hunger. Visitwww.mealexchange.com

For further information

Canadian Pacific: Breanne Feigel, (403)319-3932, (403) 589-6949, breanne_feigel@cpr.ca
Meal Exchange: LeishaZamecnik, (416) 657-4489 ext. 2,