TELUS announces election of directors

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 10, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TELUS Corporation (TELUS) T TU announced today that the nominees listed in the information circular dated March 7, 2018 were elected as directors of TELUS. The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors held at TELUS' Annual General Meeting on May 10, 2018 (the Meeting) are set out below.

Each of the following 13 nominees proposed by management was elected as a director of TELUS:  

NomineeVotes For% Votes For Votes Withheld% Votes Withheld
R.H. (Dick) Auchinleck328,666,12298.47%5,106,0981.53%
Raymond T. Chan332,174,61199.52%1,597,5090.48%
Stockwell Day331,475,16299.31%2,297,1580.69%
Lisa De Wilde333,060,25899.79%712,3590.21%
Darren Entwistle333,086,91599.79%685,7680.21%
Mary Jo Haddad330,859,10599.13%2,913,5120.87%
Kathy Kinloch333,199,74499.83%572,8730.17%
William (Bill) A. MacKinnon329,972,44498.85%3,823,2471.15%
John Manley331,741,73999.38%2,053,9520.62%
Sarabjit (Sabi) Marwah332,141,24799.50%1,653,9520.50%
Claude Mongeau333,167,85799.81%627,3420.19%
David Mowat331,681,90299.37%2,113,0970.63%
Marc Parent332,868,57499.72%926,4250.28%

All matters voted on at the Meeting were approved as follows:

MatterVotes For% Votes ForVotes Withheld / Against% Votes Withheld / Against
Appointment of auditors333,561,83498.41%5,406,1261.59%
Advisory vote to accept TELUS' approach to executive compensation316,827,82394.92%16,965,9015.08%

Final voting results on all matters voted on at the Meeting will be published shortly on www.telus.com/agm, and filed with the Canadian and U.S. securities regulators.

About TELUS
TELUS T TU is Canada's fastest-growing national telecommunications company, with $13.6 billion of annual revenue and 13.1 million subscriber connections, including 8.9 million wireless subscribers, 1.8 million high-speed Internet subscribers, 1.3 million residential network access lines and 1.1 million TELUS TV customers. TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services, including wireless, data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, television, entertainment and video and home security. TELUS is also Canada's largest healthcare IT provider, and TELUS International delivers business process solutions around the globe.

In support of our philosophy to give where we live, TELUS, our team members and retirees have contributed over $525 million to charitable and not-for-profit organizations and volunteered more than 8.7 million hours of service to local communities since 2000. Created in 2005 by President and CEO Darren Entwistle, TELUS' 13 Canadian community boards and 5 International boards have led the Company's support of grassroots charities and have contributed more than $67 million in support of 6,283 local charitable projects, enriching the lives of more than 2 million children and youth, annually. TELUS was honoured to be named the most outstanding philanthropic corporation globally for 2010 by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, becoming the first Canadian company to receive this prestigious international recognition.

For more information about TELUS, please visit telus.com.

For more information, please contact:
Richard Gilhooley
TELUS Media Relations
(778) 868-0235
richard.gilhooley@telus.com

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