PWA's Friends For Life Bike Rally Cycles Through Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry on July 28 - Seite 2

About PWA's Friends For Life Bike Rally

PWA's Friends For Life Bike Rally originated as a 6-day, 600 km bike ride from Toronto to Montréal. New for this year, the Bike Rally has added a 1-day, 108 km bike ride from Toronto to Port Hope. Now in its 18^th year, the Bike Rally is the sustaining fundraiser for the Toronto People With AIDS Foundation (PWA) supporting its ability to provide critical services and support to individuals living with HIV/AIDS in Toronto. To learn more, visit www.bikerally.org.

About the Toronto People With AIDS Foundation (PWA)

PWA is the largest direct support service agency of its kind for people living with HIV/AIDS in Canada. PWA engages people living with HIV/AIDS in enhancing their health and well-being through practical and therapeutic support services and broader social change, and inspires them to live into their dreams and discoveries. PWA aims to enhance awareness, resilience, strength and knowledge among the members of its immediate community and in the broader social world. To learn more, visit www.pwatoronto.org.

About Scotiabank

Through our global community investment strategy, Scotiabank and its employees support causes at a grassroots level. Recognized as a leader for our charitable donations and philanthropic activities, in 2015, Scotiabank contributed $67 million to help our communities around the world.

Scotiabank is Canada's international bank and a leading financial services provider in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean and Central America, and Asia-Pacific. We are dedicated to helping our 23 million customers become better off through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets. With a team of more than 89,000 employees and assets of $895 billion (as at April 30, 2016), Scotiabank trades on the Toronto (TSX: BNS) and New York Exchanges (NYSE: BNS). Scotiabank distributes the Bank's media releases using Marketwired. For more information, please visit www.scotiabank.com and follow us on Twitter @ScotiabankViews.

Media Contact:

Allan Hooey
Co-Chair
Friends For Life Bike Rally
416-823-6125
[e-mail]

Todd Davies
Co-Chair
Friends For Life Bike Rally
416-525-3506
[e-mail]

Jeffrey Graham
Media and Communications
Friends For Life Bike Rally
647-965-0771
[e-mail]

William Axelrod
Media and Communications
Friends For Life Bike Rally
647-500-1750
[e-mail]

Murray Jose-Boerbridge
Executive Director
PWA
647-226-5777
[e-mail]

Mike Twamley
Director, Philanthropy and Communications
PWA
416-895-9033
[e-mail]

Diana Hart
Public, Corporate and Government Affairs
Scotiabank
416-866-7238
[e-mail]