Directors and Management

Below are listed each of the directors and executive officers of FPCN General Partner Inc. ("FPGP"), the managing general partner of FP Canadian Newspapers Limited Partnership ("FPLP").

Ronald N. Stern⁽²⁾- Vancouver, British Columbia Chairman of the Board and Director
Chairman of FPLP from November 2001 to present. President of Estrella Group Management Ltd., a management services company, providing services to related companies involved in paper production, real estate, wholesale distribution, pre-press graphics and apparel manufacturing, from September, 1997 to present. President of Alberta Newsprint Company from August 1989 to present.

Rudy Redekop- Winnipeg, Manitoba Director and former President
President and Publisher of FPLP from November 2001 to July 2003. From July 1999 until November 2001, Group Publisher of Thomson Manitoba, Publisher of the Winnipeg Free Press and Publisher of the Brandon Sun. From May 1994 until July 1999, Publisher of the Winnipeg Free Press.

Daniel Koshowski- Winnipeg, Manitoba Vice President, Finance and Administration
Director of Finance of the Winnipeg Free Press from January 2000 to November 2001. Controller of the Winnipeg Free Press from February 1995 to January 2000.

G. Stephen Dembroski⁽¹⁾- Toronto, Ontario Director
Private investor, and former Managing Director, Investment Banking, TD Securities Inc. from 1997 to May 2002.

Phil de Montmollin ⁽²⁾- Rutherfordton, North Carolina, U.S.A. Director
President of Currow & de Montmollin, Inc., a newspaper management consulting company, from 1995 to present. Worked for 32 years with the Newspaper Division of Knight Ridder, Inc., including as President of the Miami Herald.

Harvey Secter ⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾- Winnipeg, Manitoba Director
Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Manitoba from July 1999 to present. From 1995 to present, President of Resolution Processes Inc., a mediation and arbitration services company.

Robert Silver⁽¹⁾- Winnipeg, Manitoba Director
President of Western Glove Works Ltd., an apparel manufacturer, from 1981 to present.

Susan Lewis⁽¹⁾- Winnipeg, Manitoba Director
President United Way of Winnipeg.

Trustees of the Fund

The following individuals, who are all directors of FPGP, are the Trustees of FP Newspapers Income Fund:

Ronald N. Stern
Harvey Secter
G. Stephen Dembroski

Senior Management of the Business

The following individuals are employed as the senior management of the Business:

Bob Cox, Publisher of the Winnipeg Free Press, joined the Winnipeg Free Press in May 2005. Mr. Cox has more than 20 years experience in the newspaper industry including the last five years at the Globe and Mail where he held various editorial positions. Prior to the Globe and Mail, Mr. Cox was City Editor of the Edmonton Journal from 1997 to 2000. Mr. Cox has also worked at the Canadian Press and at the Winnipeg Free Press where he was a Reporter from 1984 to 1987.

Laurie Finley, Vice President Advertising Sales of the Winnipeg Free Press, has been with the Winnipeg Free Press since June 1993. During his career with the Winnipeg Free Press, he has held the positions of Special Products Manager, Retail Advertising Sales Manager and Director of Advertising. Currently, as Director of Marketing and Advertising Sales, Mr. Finley is responsible for all external marketing sponsorship and promotion for the Winnipeg Free Press. Prior to joining the newspaper, Mr. Finley spent 12 years with the Xerox Corporation in sales management roles, followed by four years as General Manager of a commercial printing company.

Margo Goodhand, Editor of the Winnipeg Free Press, has worked in newspapers for more than 20 years – the last 16 of them at the Winnipeg Free Press. She has worked as a reporter, columnist, assistant city editor, business editor, Arts editor and Deputy Editor. She was editor of The Hermetic Code and other award–winning special projects before being appointed to the Editor’s office in 2007. Prior to the Winnipeg Free Press, Ms. Goodhand was the first female news editor at the Medicine Hat News and founding editor of Okanagan Business Magazine before moving back to her hometown of Winnipeg.

Daniel Koshowski, Vice President, Finance and Administration of FPLP, joined the Winnipeg Free Press in 1995 as Controller and was appointed Director of Finance in January 2000 and Vice President, Finance and Administration in November 2001. Prior to joining the Winnipeg Free Press, Mr. Koshowski spent nine years with KPMG LLP. Mr. Koshowski is a Chartered Accountant and has a B. Comm. (Hon.) from the University of Manitoba.

Terry Kulchycki, Director of Information Technology of the Winnipeg Free Press, joined the newspaper in 2001. Prior to joining the Winnipeg Free Press, Mr. Kulchycki worked in a number of Information Technology related positions in the grain and the computer outsourcing industries. Mr. Kulchycki holds M.Sc. and B.Sc. (Hons.) degrees from the University of Manitoba.

Bryan Metcalfe, Publisher and General Manager of Canstar Community News Limited, joined the Company in January 2007. Mr. Metcalfe has a B. Comm (Hons.) degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Manitoba.  Prior to joining Canstar, Bryan spent three years as the Publisher and General Manager of Trader Classified Media.

James O'Connor, Managing Editor of the Brandon Sun, joined the Brandon Sun in September 2004. He attended John Abbott College in Montreal and Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto. He has a solid background in the newspaper business with previous experience as Photo Editor at the Winnipeg Sun and Managing Editor for the Transcontinental Media group of community newspapers in Winnipeg.

Ewan Pow, Publisher of the Brandon Sun re-joined Brandon's daily newspaper on April 5, 2004. He has spent his entire career in the newspaper business starting in the pressroom at the Brandon Sun in 1967. He subsequently moved to the advertising department holding the positions of sales representative, classified sales manager, retail sales manager, advertising director and marketing director. In 1988 he and a partner purchased The Neepawa Press, a community newspaper in Manitoba, and for the next 15 years served as Publisher and General Manager.

Randy Smith, Operations Manager of the Brandon Sun, is a long-term employee of the Brandon Sun. He started in 1969 as an apprentice pressman and progressed to journeyman designation evenutally being promoted to pressroom foreman and served in that capacity for 12 years. Mr. Smith is responsible for all manufacturing processes and the infrastructure of the Brandon division. As well, he is responsible for printing the Globe and Mail and commercial printing activities at the Brandon Sun. Mr. Smith reports to the Publisher of the Brandon Sun.

Rhonda Wieler, Controller of the Brandon Sun, joined the Brandon Sun as Controller in the late spring of 2008. Previously Ms. Wieler was in public practice with the accounting firm Meyers Norris Penny in Medicine Hat, AB. Ms. Wieler is a Certified General Accountant and reports to the Publisher of the Brandon Sun.