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BRITISH Ministry of Finance Mailing
Address: Location: [LOGO] COLUMBIA Corporate and Personal PO BOX
9431 Stn Prov Govt 2nd Floor -- 940 St Blanshard St Property
Registries Victoria BC V8W 9V3 Victoria BC
www.corporateonline.gov.bc.ca 250 356-8626
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TRANSITION APPLICATION FORM 43 BUSINESS
CORPORATIONS ACT SECTION 437
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FILING DETAILS: Transition Application form
SUN MEDIA CORPORATION/CORPORATION SUN MEDIA Filed Date and Time:
May 17, 2004 04:00 PM Pacific Time Transition Date and Time:
Transitioned on May 17, 2004 04:00 PM Pacific Time
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TRANSITION APPLICATION This confirms there has been filed with the
registrar all records necessary to ensure that the information in
the corporate registry respecting the directors of the company is,
immediately before the transition application is submitted to the
registrar for filing, correct.
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Incorporation Number: Name of Company:
C0630300 SUN MEDIA CORPORATION/CORPORATION SUN MEDIA
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NOTICE OF ARTICLES Name of Company: SUN MEDIA
CORPORATION/CORPORATION SUN MEDIA
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CO630300Page: 1 of 4
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REGISTERED OFFICE INFORMATION Mailing
Address: Delivery Address: 800 PARK PLACE 800 PARK PLACE 666
BURRARD STREET 666 BURRARD STREET VANCOUVER BC V6C 3P3 VANCOUVER BC
V6C 3P3
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RECORDS OFFICE INFORMATION Mailing Address: Delivery Address: 800
PARK PLACE 800 PARK PLACE 666 BURRARD STREET 666 BURRARD STREET
VANCOUVER BC V6C 3P3 VANCOUVER BC V6C 3P3
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DIRECTOR INFORMATION Last Name, First Name Middle Name: MONGRAIN,
JEAN-LOUIS Mailing Address: Delivery Address: 8480 ST-CHARLES, APT
4A 8480 ST-CHARLES, APT 4A BROSSARD QC. J4X 2A5 BROSSARD QC J4X 2A5
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Last Name, First Name Middle Name: FRANCOEUR, PIERRE Mailing
Address: Delivery Address: 333 KING STREET EAST 333 KING STREET
EAST TORONTO ON JOR 1LO TORONTO ON JOR 1L0
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Last Name, First Name Middle Name: Gouin, Serge Mailing Address:
Delivery Address: 612 SAINT-JACQUES 612 SAINT-JACQUES 13TH FLOOR
13TH FlOOR MONTREAl QC H3C 4MB MONTREAL QC H3C 4M8
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DIRECTOR INFORMATION Last Name, First Name
Middle Name: BOURBONNAIS, ANDRE Mailing Address: Delivery Address:
2001 MCGILL COLLEGE, #1901 2001 MCGILL COLLEGE, #1901 MONTREAL QC
H3A 1G1 MONTREAL QC H3A 1G1
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Last Name, First Name Middle Name: LA COUTURE, JEAN Mailing
Address: Delivery Address: 1445 STANLEY, APT 1501 1445 STANLEY, APT
1501 MONTREAL QC H3A 3T1 MONTREAL QC H3A 3T1
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PRE-EXISTING COMPANY PROVISIONS The Pre-existing Company Provisions
apply to this company.
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CO630300Page: 3 of 4 AUTHORIZED SHARE
STRUCTURE
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1. 10,000,000,000 Class A Common Shares
Without Par Value With Special Rights or Restrictions attached
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2. 10,000,000,000 Class B Preferred Shares Without Par Value With
Special Rights or Restrictions attached
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3. 10,000,000,000 Class C Preferred Shares Without Par Value With
Special Rights or Restrictions attached
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BRITISH Ministry of Finance Mailing
Address: Location: [LOGO] COLUMBIA Corporate and Personal PO BOX
9431 Stn Prov Govt 2nd Floor -- 940 St Blanshard St Property
Registries Victoria BC V8W 9V3 Victoria BC
www.corporateonline.gov.bc.ca 250 356-8626
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NOTICE OF ALTERATION FORM 11 BUSINESS
CORPORATIONS ACT SECTION 257
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Filed Date and Time: May 17, 2004 04:00 PM
Pacific Time Alteration Date and Time: Notice of Articles Altered
on May 17, 2004 04:00 PM Pacific Time
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NOTICE OF ALTERATION
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Incorporation Number: Name of Company:
C0630300 SUN MEDIA CORPORATION/CORPORATION SUN MEDIA
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ALTERATION EFFECTIVE DATE: The alteration is
to take effect at the time that this application is filed with the
Registrar. PRE-EXISTING COMPANY PROVISiONS The company has resolved
that the Pre-existing Company Provisions no longer apply to this
company. CO630300Page: 1 of 1 ARTICLES OF SUN MEDIA CORPORATION
CONTINUATION NUMBER: C-630300 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PART 1 -
INTERPRETATION......................................................
1 PART 2 - ISSUE OF
SHARES..................................................... 1 PART
3 - SHARE
CERTIFICATES.................................................. 2
PART 4 - TRANSFER OF SHARES,
GENERAL......................................... 2 PART 5 -
TRANSMISSION OF
SHARES.............................................. 3 PART 6 -
BORROWING AND
CAPITAL............................................... 3 PART 7 -
MEETINGS............................................................
4 PART 8 - PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL
MEETINGS..................................... 5 PART 9 - VOTES OF
SHAREHOLDERS............................................... 7 PART
10 -
DIRECTORS..........................................................
9 PART 11 -
INDEMNIFICATION...................................................
10 PART 12 - PROCEEDINGS OF
DIRECTORS.......................................... 12 PART 13 -
OFFICERS..........................................................
13 PART 14 - EXECUTION OF
INSTRUMENTS.......................................... 14 PART 15 -
DIVIDENDS.........................................................
14 PART 16 -
ACCOUNTS..........................................................
16 PART 17 -
NOTICES...........................................................
16 PART 18 -
FEES..............................................................
17 PART 19 - TRANSFER OF SHARES.
RESTRICTIONS.................................. 17 PART 20 - SPECIAL
RIGHTS AND RESTRICTIONS...................................
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SUN MEDIA CORPORATION CONTINUATION NUMBER:
C-630300 PART 1 - INTERPRETATION 1.1 In these Articles, unless the
context otherwise requires: (a) "directors" means the director or
directors of the Company for the time being; (b) "Business
Corporations Act" means the Business Corporations Act of the
Province of British Columbia from time to time in force and all
amendments thereto and all Regulations and amendments thereto made
pursuant to that Act; (c) "register" means the central securities
register to be kept pursuant to the Business Corporations Act; (d)
"registered address" of a shareholder means his address as recorded
in the register; (e) "prescribed address" of a director means his
address as recorded in the Company's register of directors to be
kept at the records office of the Company pursuant to the Business
Corporations Act. 1.2 Words importing the singular include the
plural and vice versa, and words importing a male person include a
female person and a corporation. 1.3 The definitions in the
Business Corporations Act in force and as amended from time to time
shall, with necessary changes and so far as applicable, apply to
these Articles. 1.4 The regulations contained in Table 1 in the
Regulations made pursuant to the Business Corporations Act shall
not apply to the Company. PART 2 - ISSUE OF SHARES 2.1 Subject to
the Business Corporations Act and to these Articles, the issue of
shares of the Company shall be under the control of the directors
who may, subject to the rights of holders of shares of the Company
for the time being outstanding, allot or otherwise dispose of,
and/or grant options on, shares authorized but not yet issued at
such times and to such persons, including directors, and in such
manner and upon such terms and conditions and at such price or for
such consideration as the directors in their absolute discretion
may determine. 2.2 The directors of the Company need not, before
allotting any shares, first offer those shares pro rata to the
shareholders or, where there are classes of shares, first offer the
- 2 - shares to be allotted pro rata to the shareholders holding
shares of the class proposed to be allotted. 2.3 When the Company
is authorized to issue shares without par value, the directors are
authorized to determine the price or consideration for which such
shares shall be allotted or issued, and notwithstanding that the
price or consideration for a share may be other than cash, the
price or consideration for a share shall, at the time when the
share is allotted, be expressed in terms of money and so recorded
in the proceedings of the directors of the Company. 2.4 Subject to
the provisions and restrictions contained in the Business
Corporations Act applicable to the shares without par value or
otherwise, the Company may pay a commission or allow a discount in
an amount not exceeding 25% of the amount of the subscription price
to any person in consideration of his subscribing or agreeing to
subscribe, or procuring or agreeing to procure subscriptions,
whether absolutely or conditionally for shares. The Company may pay
such brokerage as may be lawful. PART 3 - SHARE CERTIFICATES 3.1
Every share certificate issued by the Company shall be in such form
as the directors approve and shall comply with the requirements of
the Business Corporations Act. 3.2 If any share certificate is worn
out or defaced, then upon production of that certificate to the
directors or the transfer agent of the Company, the directors or
that transfer agent may declare the same to be cancelled and cause
it to be so marked and may issue a new certificate in place of the
certificate cancelled. If any share certificate is lost or
destroyed, then, upon proof of the loss or destruction to the
satisfaction of the directors, and upon giving such indemnity as
the directors deem adequate, a new certificate shall be issued to
the party entitled to it. In any such case where a new share
certificate is issued, the fee prescribed in Part 18 of these
Articles must be paid if requested. 3.3 A share certificate
registered in the names of two or more persons shall be delivered
to the person first named on the register. PART 4 - TRANSFER OF
SHARES, GENERAL 4.1 Subject to the restrictions, if any, set forth
in these Articles, any shareholder may transfer his shares by
instrument in writing executed by or on behalf of such shareholder
and delivered to the Company or its transfer agent. The instrument
of transfer of any share of the Company shall be in the form, if
any, on the back of the certificate of the share being transferred,
or in any other form which the directors may approve. If the
directors so require, each instrument of transfer shall be in
respect of only one class of shares. 4.2 Every instrument of
transfer shall be executed by the transferor and left at the
registered office of the Company or at an authorized office of its
transfer agent for registration, together with the certificate for
the shares to be transferred and such other evidence, if any, as
the directors or the transfer agent may require to prove the title
of the transferor or his right to transfer the shares. All
instruments of transfer which are registered shall be - 3 -
retained by the Company or its transfer agent, but any instrument
of transfer where the transfer is not registered shall be returned
to the person depositing the same, together with the share
certificate which accompanied the same when tendered for
registration. The transferor shall remain the holder of the share
until the name of the transferee is entered on the register in
respect of that share. 4.3 The signature of the registered owner of
any shares, or of his duly authorized attorney, upon the form of
transfer constitutes an authority to the Company to register the
shares specified in the form of transfer in the name of the person
named in that form as transferee or, if no person is so named, then
in any name designated in writing by the person depositing the
share certificate and the form of transfer with the Company or its
agents. The Company or its transfer agent may require proof or
guarantee of the signature of any transferor. 4.4 Neither the
Company nor any director, officer or agent is bound to enquire into
the title of the transferee of shares to be transferred, nor is any
such person liable to the registered or any intermediate owner of
the shares for registering the transfer. 4.5 The Company may keep
its register either at its records office or at any other location
in British Columbia designated by the directors, and may maintain
branch registers at any locations inside or outside British
Columbia designated by the directors. PART 5 - TRANSMISSION OF
SHARES 5.1 In the case of the death or bankruptcy of a shareholder,
his personal representative or trustee in bankruptcy shall be the
only person recognized by the Company as having any title to or
interest in the shares registered in the name of the deceased.
Before recognizing any personal representative or trustee in
bankruptcy the directors may require him to produce and deposit the
documents required by the Business Corporations Act. PART 6 -
BORROWING AND CAPITAL 6.1 Subject to any restriction which may from
time to time be included in the memorandum of the Company or these
Articles or contained in the Business Corporations Act or the
terms, rights or restrictions of any shares or securities of the
Company outstanding, the directors may at their discretion
authorize the Company to borrow any sum of money and may raise or
secure the repayment of such sum in such manner and upon such terms
and conditions, in all respects, as they think fit, and in
particular, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
by the issue of bonds or debentures, or any mortgage or charge,
whether specific or floating, or by granting any other security on
the undertaking, or the whole or any part of the property, of the
Company, both present and future. 6.2 The directors may make any
debentures, bonds or other debt obligations issued by the Company,
by their terms assignable free from any equities between the
Company and the person to whom they may be issued or any other
person who lawfully acquires the same by assignment, purchase, or
otherwise, howsoever. - 4 - 6.3 The directors may authorize the
issue of any debentures, bonds or other debt obligations of the
Company at a discount, premium or otherwise, and with special or
other rights or privileges as to redemption, surrender, entitlement
to interest or share of income, allotment of, or conversion into,
or exchange for shares, attendance at general meetings of the
Company, and otherwise as the directors may determine at or before
the time of issue, but no debenture shall be issued which the
Company has not the power to reissue until the shareholders by
resolution determine such debenture shall be cancelled unless such
debenture expressly provides by its terms that it shall not be
reissued. 6.4 The Company by ordinary resolution of the
shareholders and insofar as the Business Corporations Act shall
permit, may alter its memorandum to increase its authorized share
structure by: (a) creating shares with par value, or shares without
par value, or both; (b) increasing the number of shares with par
value, or shares without par value, or both; (c) increasing the par
value of a class of shares with par value, if no shares of that
class are issued; or (d) creating shares of different classes with
special rights or restrictions. 6.5 The Company may, by resolution
of the directors and subject to the provisions of the Business
Corporations Act and the specific provisions of any special rights
or restrictions attached to any class or classes of its shares,
purchase or otherwise acquire any of its shares if, at the time of
the proposed purchase or acquisition the Company is not insolvent
or likely to be rendered insolvent by such purchase or acquisition.
The Company need not make its offer to purchase shares pro rata to
every shareholder who holds shares of the class or series of shares
to be purchased. 6.6 Where the Company proposes to redeem some, but
not all, of its shares of a particular class or kind, the directors
shall have absolute discretion to determine in such manner as they
deem proper which shares shall be redeemed, and, without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, may redeem shares which have been
purchased by the Company in priority to shares which are held by
shareholders. 6.7 The banking business of the Company, or any part
thereof, shall be transacted with such bank, trust company or other
firm or body corporate as the board may designate, appoint or
authorize from time to time and all such banking business, or part
thereof, shall be transacted on the Company's behalf by such one or
more officers or other persons as the board may designate, direct
or authorize from time to time and to the extent thereby provided.
PART 7 - MEETINGS 7.1 Meetings of the Company shall be held at such
time and place, in accordance with the Business Corporations Act,
as the directors appoint, and, unless otherwise specifically - 5 -
provided, the provisions of these Articles relating to meetings
shall apply with necessary changes to a meeting of shareholders
holding a particular class of shares. 7.2 Every meeting, other than
an annual general meeting or a class meeting, shall be called an
extraordinary general meeting. 7.3 The directors may, whenever they
think fit, convene an extraordinary general meeting. 7.4 Notice of
a meeting shall be given not less than 10 days and not more than 50
days prior to the date of the meeting and shall specify the place,
the day and the hour of meeting, and, in case of special business,
the general nature of that business. The accidental omission to
give notice of any meeting to, or the non-receipt of any notice by,
any of the shareholders entitled to receive notice, shall not
invalidate any proceedings at that meeting. 7.5 If any special
business includes presenting, considering, approving, ratifying or
authorizing the execution of any document, then the portion of any
notice relating to that document is sufficient if it states that a
copy of the document or proposed document is or will be available
for inspection by shareholders at an office of the Company in the
Province of British Columbia or at one or more designated places in
the Province during business hours on any specified or unspecified
business day or days prior to the date of the meeting, and at the
meeting. 7.6 Meetings of shareholders shall be held at the
registered office of the Company or elsewhere in the municipality
in which the registered office is situate or, if the board shall so
determine, at some other place in Canada or, if all shareholders
entitled to vote at the meeting agree, at some place outside
Canada, and a shareholder who attends a meeting outside Canada is
deemed to have so agreed except when he attends such meeting for
the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business
on the grounds that the meeting is not lawfully held. PART 8 -
PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS 8.1 The following business at a
general meeting shall be deemed to be special business: (a) All
business at an extraordinary general meeting; (b) All business that
is transacted at an annual general meeting, with the exception of
the consideration of the financial statements and the report of the
directors and auditors, the election of directors, the appointment
of the auditors and such other business as, under these Articles or
in accordance with the Business Corporations Act, ought to be
transacted at an annual general meeting or is business which is
brought under consideration by the report of the directors issued
with the notice convening the meeting; and no special business
shall be conducted at any meeting unless notice of that business
has been given to the shareholders in accordance with these
Articles or shareholders holding at least 75% of the shares
entitled to be voted at that meeting are present and consent to the
conduct of such business. - 6 - 8.2 No business, other than the
election of a chairman and the adjournment or termination of the
meeting, shall be conducted at any meeting at any time when a
quorum is not present. A quorum shall be two persons holding or
representing by proxy not less than one-half of the outstanding
shares of the Company which are entitled to be voted at the
meeting, unless the Company has only one shareholder, in which case
the quorum shall be that shareholder who may conduct the business
of the Company by proceedings recorded in writing and signed by
him. If at any time during a meeting there ceases to be a quorum
present, any business then in progress shall be suspended until
there is a quorum present or until the meeting is adjourned or
terminated, as the case may be. 8.3 If within 30 minutes from the
time appointed for a meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting,
if convened upon the requisition of shareholders, shall be
terminated. In any other case, it shall stand adjourned to the same
day in the next week, at the same time and place, and if, at the
adjourned meeting, a quorum is not present within half an hour from
the time appointed for the meeting, the shareholder or shareholders
present shall be a quorum. 8.4 Subject to Article 8.5, the chairman
of the directors, if there is one, failing whom the president of
the Company, failing whom one of the directors present chosen by
the directors from among their number, shall preside as chairman of
every meeting. 8.5 If at any general meeting there is no chairman
or president or director present within 15 minutes after the time
appointed for holding the meeting, or if the chairman or president
and all the directors present are unwilling to act as chairman, the
shareholders present shall choose someone of their number to be
chairman. 8.6 The chairman of a meeting may, with the consent of
any meeting at which a quorum is present, and shall, if so directed
by the meeting, adjourn the meeting from time to time and from
place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any
adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the
meeting from which the adjournment took place. When a meeting is
adjourned for 30 days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting
shall be given as in the case of the original meeting. Except as
aforesaid, it is not necessary to give any notice of an adjournment
or of the business to be transacted at an adjourned meeting. 8.7 No
resolution proposed at a meeting need be seconded, and the chairman
of any meeting is entitled to move or propose a resolution. 8.8 In
case of an equality of votes either on a show of hands or on a
poll, the chairman shall have a casting or second vote in addition
to the vote or votes to which he may be entitled as a shareholder,
which vote or votes he is entitled to cast without vacating the
chair. 8.9 In the case of any dispute as to the admission or
rejection of a proxy or a vote, the chairman shall determine the
same and his determination, made in good faith, is final and
conclusive. 8.10 A shareholder entitled to more than one vote need
not, if he votes, use all his votes or cast all the votes he uses
in the same way. - 7 - 8.11 Subject to these Articles, if a poll is
duly demanded it shall be taken in such manner as the chairman
directs within seven days of the demand for the same. The result of
the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting at
which the poll is demanded. A demand for a poll may be withdrawn at
any time before it has been taken. 8.12 A poll demanded on a
question of adjournment shall be taken at the meeting without
adjournment. 8.13 The demand for a poll shall not, unless the
chairman so rules, prevent the continuance of a meeting for the
transaction of any business other than the question on which a poll
has been demanded or questions which depend or bear upon that
question. 8.14 Subject always to any contrary or specific provision
of the Business Corporations Act, a resolution that has been
submitted to all of the shareholders who would have been entitled
to vote thereon in person or by proxy at a meeting and that has
been consented to in writing by such shareholders holding not less
than 75% of the shares of the Company shall be deemed to be an
ordinary resolution passed at a meeting. 8.15 Subject always to any
contrary or specific provision of the Business Corporations Act, a
resolution consented to in writing by every shareholder of the
Company who would have been entitled to vote thereon in person or
by proxy at a meeting shall be deemed to be a special resolution
passed at a meeting. 8.16 Subject always to the provisions of the
Business Corporations Act, where all the shareholders entitled to
attend and vote at the annual general meeting of the Company
consent in writing to all the business required to be transacted at
the meeting, it is not necessary for the Company to hold that
annual general meeting. PART 9 - VOTES OF SHAREHOLDERS 9.1 Subject
to any rights or restrictions for the time being attached to any
class or classes of shares, on a show of hands every shareholder
present in person or by proxy has one vote, and on a poll every
such shareholder present in pers
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