Media Advisory/ Photo Opportunity - Break the bank: TD helps Toronto bring miracles to local Children's Miracle Network hospital

SickKids Foundation to benefit from funds raised in GTA and Northern Ontario

TORONTO, Dec. 6, 2011 /CNW/ - For the 17^th consecutive year, TD is asking Torontonians to support their local children's hospital, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), through Children's Miracle Network, a non-profit organization dedicated to saving and improving the lives of children by raising funds for 14 children's hospitals across Canada. TD will help make miracles happen this December by matching customer donations, up to $1 million, to support the community's local Children's Miracle Network hospital.

To launch this year's initiative, on December 8, 2011, SickKids Patient Ambassador, Hunter, 4, who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), and his nurses, Andrea Cote and Lindsay Fraser, will be in the TD Canada Trust branch at Grand Magazine and Fleet Street to break a large piggy bank to encourage Torontonians to donate on December 9^th and throughout the year. Funds raised will support SickKids Foundation, the Children's Miracle Network member hospital foundation for the GTA and Northern Ontario.