Credit Union Central of Manitoba, British Columbia and Prince Edward Island Expands Relationship with NETg.

Business Editors

NAPERVILLE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 14, 2003

NETg Business and Professional Development Courses Are

Added to Bolster Employee Skills

NETg, a worldwide leader in corporate education and training, and part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC, TSX: TOC), today announced that Credit Union Central of Manitoba, in partnership with Credit Union Central of British Columbia and Credit Union Central of Prince Edward Island, will expand its business partnership with NETg.

Under the terms of the new contract, Credit Union Central will provide an extensive new library of NETg Business and Professional Development e-Learning courses. This will be made available to all of Credit Union Central's 1,000+ employees at 26 participating credit unions.

"NETg has elevated our training to the next level. We are dedicated to improving employee skills on an ongoing basis and the NETg courses make it possible for us to reach more of our employees in a flexible, consistent manner," said Peter Henson, Training Consultant, Credit Union Central of Manitoba. "We expanded our business with NETg because of the extremely positive feedback we received from our employees. The courses are engaging, high quality, and interactive. And because of this, our employees are consistently taking courses and actively increasing their skill sets, which in turn helps us increase our business performance."

Credit Union Central, which has been a NETg customer since 2000 also uses NETg's popular IT and Desktop courseware throughout its organization.

"We are extremely pleased to be expanding our partnership with Credit Union Central," said Joe Dougherty, President of NETg. "Credit Union Central is one of the many NETg customers now adding new simulation-rich business and professional development titles to augment its leadership development and training programs with popular titles such as customer service, facilitation, coaching and team building. We're excited to be a part of this major initiative."

NETg has the world's largest library of customizable, interoperable learning content, covering everything from IT to desktop skills to professional development. All of NETg's content reflects world-class instructional design and development practices, the leading adult learning theories, and the most advanced simulations and technology. NETg's learning solutions are powered by its robust and highly flexible learning platform - allowing content to be pulled from a variety of sources, and personalized and deployed according to an organization's unique requirements.

About The Thomson Corporation & NETg

The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2001 revenues of $7.2 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides value-added information, software applications and tools to more than 20 million users in the fields of corporate and professional training, assessment and testing, higher education, reference information, law, tax, accounting, financial services, and scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC). Its learning businesses and brands serve the needs of individuals, institutions, and businesses with a blend of products and services tailored to any learning environment. As part of Thomson, NETg (www.netg.com) is a global leader in blended learning with a complete solution of content, technology and services. NETg's offering is comprised of its award-winning e-Learning courseware, books, e-Books, instructor-led training manuals, and Wave accelerated IT Boot Camps and self-study kits, as well as an online executive education and e-MBA program. For more than 30 years NETg has been an innovation leader incorporating Internet deployment and interactivity with over 80,000 learning objects in popular IT, desktop computing and professional development topics.

About Credit Union Central of Manitoba Canada

Credit Union Central of Manitoba (CUCM) is a service organization for Manitoba's 56 credit unions. CUCM provides facilitation and organization for banking services and member contact. The aim of Credit Union Central of Manitoba is to be a financial Central for Manitoba Credit Unions, dedicated to meeting present and future member-shareholders' financial, educational and service needs in a spirit of true cooperation, and to providing representation and leadership at the provincial and national levels. CUCM organizes and provides training for Manitoba's credit unions to meet their current and future needs. Manitoba has 56 credit unions with 172 branches, 470,000 members and $7.3 billion in assets. The credit union system employs some 2,200 staff members province wide.