Market Opens

The TMX Equity Team within TMX Group, joined members of the Canadian Security Traders Association, Inc. (“CSTA”), and the CSTA Board of Governors to close the market to celebrate the kick-off of the Canadian Security Traders Association’s Winter Vendor Fair 2026. The ceremony, held at the TMX Broadcast Centre, recognizes the vital role the CSTA plays in fostering innovation and collaboration within the Canadian capital markets. The Winter Vendor Fair serves as a premier gathering for traders, technology providers, and market participants to explore the tools driving the future of the industry. The CSTA serves as a national voice for our affiliate trading organizations: Institutional Equity Traders Association (of Toronto); Association des Arbitragistes Institutionnels de Montréal (Montréal Institutional Equity Traders Association); Prairies Security Traders Association; and Vancouver Security Traders Association. The CSTA is presently composed of approximately 700 capital market participants nationwide and is led by a Board of Governors elected from each of our four distinct regions. The CSTA comments on industry issues and forms opinions on trading issues based on input from our members. The CSTA will host one national educational conference annually, an annual winter vendor fair and educational seminars periodically throughout the year.

Nilesh Patel, Head of Distribution, Canada, FT Portfolios Canada Co. (“First Trust Canada”), and their executive team, joined Keith Wu, Head of Exchange Traded Products at Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”), to open the market and celebrate the launch of the First Trust Bloomberg Nuclear Power ETF (TSX: RCTR). First Trust Canada focuses on providing Canadian investors with effective, innovative and timely investment strategies. The First Trust Bloomberg Nuclear Power ETF provides investors exposure to the building, growth and sustainability of nuclear energy production. RCTR is a unique ETF that provides exposure to the growth in the Nuclear Power Ecosystem, specifically in Power Generation, Uranium and Equipment and Engineering, Procurement and Construction (“EPC”). First Trust Canada is the trustee, manager and promoter of the fund. First Trust Canada and its affiliates First Trust Advisors L.P. (“FTA”), portfolio advisor to the fund, an Ontario Securities Commission registered portfolio manager and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission registered investment advisor, and First Trust Portfolios L.P., a FINRA registered broker-dealer, are privately held companies that provide a variety of investment services. FTA has collective assets under management or supervision of approximately U.S.$309 billion as of December 31, 2025 through exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds, mutual funds and separate managed accounts.

Paul Adair, Chief Investment Officer and Chief Operating Officer, Lysander Funds Limited (“Lysander” or the “Company”) and his team, joined Graham MacKenzie, Managing Director, Exchange Traded Products, Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”), to close the market and celebrate the listing of the Company’s new ETF Series of units of Lysander-Canso U.S. Corporate Value Bond Fund (TSX Ticker: LYUV.U). Lysander-Canso U.S. Corporate Value Bond Fund seeks to achieve long term capital growth of returns consisting of income and some capital gains primarily through investments in U.S. debt and money market securities either denominated in U.S. dollars or hedged to U.S. dollars using forward currency contracts. The portfolio manager of the Fund is Canso Investment Counsel Ltd. Lysander is an investment fund manager and portfolio manager with offices in Toronto, Montréal, and Vancouver. Lysander is partnered with experienced portfolio managers who are Canadian, independently owned, and specialists in their respective asset classes. Lysander and its partners are aligned with its clients and firmly focused on delivering long-term investment results.

Representatives from the 2026 TSX Venture 50™ companies joined Andrew Creech, President, TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV), other TMX executives, and program partners to open the market and celebrate the official launch of the 2026 ranking. TSX Venture 50 is the flagship program recognizing the 50 top-performing companies over the last year on TSXV, a world-leading capital formation platform for early-stage growth firms. The companies are ranked based on three equally-weighted criteria of one-year share price appreciation, market capitalization increase, and Canadian consolidated trading value as of December 31, 2025. The 50 companies on the list delivered an average share price appreciation of 207% to investors in 2025. In addition, the group holds a combined market capitalization of $16+ billion. This year’s program partners include Blossom Social, Capital Event Management, Market One Media, MNP, and TMX Newsfile. Explore the full list at www.tsx.com/Venture50.