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Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media (Free subscription) | yesterday
I missed this in the wake of the holiday weekend: the share price for CanWest, one of Canada’s meg-media companies and a major owner of newspapers, jumped 12 per cent. The reason? Speculation that the company is considering taking itself private. According to Reuters: Citing “people familiar with the situation,” the Globe and Mail newspaper reported on [...]
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Holly's Fight for Justice (Free subscription) | yesterday
Very interesting article by Andrew Seymour with Canwest News Service Wednesday, August 06, 2008 Deporting convicted street gang members to their home countries, if applicable, may be a good move politically, but largely ineffective in reducing the activities of street gangs, an author and expert on the subject says. OTTAWA - A leading expert on Canadian street gangs says deporting gang
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | yesterday
Has anyone else noticed that with McAfee SiteAdvisor installed and you Google to get a list of links originating from canada.com, they are marked with the yellow exclamation mark warning?Canada.com is owned by Canwest Global Communications and is the internet domain name of several newspapers including the Calgary Herald, the Ottawa Citizen, and Vancouver Sun.McAfee is warning that the Canada.com domain...
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International News (I.N. Daily) (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Arbour’s record as rights boss at UN comes under fire Canadian criticized for not condemning Russia, China David Akin Canwest News Service Monday, August 04, 2008 http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news Montreal Muslim News Note: UN Watch Board Members Current Alfred H. Moses, Attorney, former US Ambassador to Romania and Presidential Emissary for the Cyprus Conflict, former [...]
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
TORONTO (Reuters) - The battered shares of Canwest Global Communications Corp jumped 12 percent on Tuesday, following a newspaper report over the weekend which said the company was considering options that could include going private with the help of major shareholder, Fairfax Financial Holdings .
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Shares in CanWest Global Communications Inc. jumped nearly 14 per cent Tuesday following a report suggesting CEO Leonard Asper was exploring a range of options, including taking the company private.
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The Black Kettle (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
David Akin, Canwest News: Canadian Louise Arbour got it wrong on the Middle East during her tenure as the United Nations human rights commissioner and did not do enough to challenge the human rights records of countries such as Russia and China, which are influential at the United Nations, says a new study prepared by the advocacy group UN Watch. "On the Arab-Israel conflict ... her statements were...
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
The smearing of Louise Arbour, the former UN Commissioner of Human Rights, continues. This time it's CanWest, shilling for UN Watch, "a non-governmental organization based in Geneva whose mandate is to monitor the performance of the United Nations by the yardstick of its own Charter. UN Watch...is affiliated with the American Jewish Committee (AJC)."The connection with the AJC isn't thought to be worthy...
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DealBook (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
The chief executive of CanWest Global Communications, Leonard Asper, is considering taking the Canadian media company private, The Globe and Mail reported. According to the report, one of the options being considered is a takeover of the company by the the Asper family, which founded and controls the firm, with backing from major shareholder Fairfax Financial [...]
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Down With Everybody (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
[Canwest] A B.C. man has filed a human-rights complaint alleging religious discrimination after a TV personality flew a plane pulling a “Jesus sucks” banner over Toronto. Dean Skoreyko of the northern B.C. town of Coldstream filed the complaint against Kenneth Hotz and Showcase TV. Skoreyko, who viewed the stunt online, said in an online form filed with [...]
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
A family friend who works in the mental-health field said it was obvious Li was struggling. Mike McIntyre and James Turner - August 02, 2008 WINNIPEG --The 40-year-old man accused in the gruesome stabbing and beheading of his young seatmate on a Greyhound bus this week arrived from China about four years ago and found a home in Winnipeg -- surrounded by a loving wife and caring members of the
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BigCityLib Strikes Back (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
1) Bourrie at Ottawa Watch has been on the CanWest Death spiral like a vulture on the bloated corpse of a dead cow. Basically, the stock has dipped below $2.00 per share, and this has sparked rumors that the National Post might be sold off. In other words, next time you're at McDonalds keep an eye on the guy behind the counter flipping burgers. It might be Jonathon Kay. 2) The Audit Bureau of Circulations...
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Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
The Calgary Herald, Canwest News Service ( Canada ) : Climate change is making Canadian roads, water supplies, sewer systems and government buildings more vulnerable to multibillion-dollar failures that place human health and safety at risk, warns a new national engineering assessment uncovered by the Vancouver Sun. The study, Adapting to Climate Change, is the first national engineering vulnerability...
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International News (I.N. Daily) (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Andrew Duffy Canwest News Service Wednesday, July 30, 2008 http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/ OTTAWA - Abdullah Almalki has been barred from reading final submissions made by his own lawyer to the inquiry examining Canada’s role in his detention and mistreatment in Syria. Final submissions to the Iacobucci Internal Inquiry were delivered in secret last month. Almalki and two other Arab-Canadians,...
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Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Canwest News Service (Canada) : Thawing permafrost, eroding lakeshores, a melting glacier and fears of flash floods at a national park on Baffin Island have forced the evacuation of 21 tourists and led officials to declare much of the wilderness reserve off-limits until geologists and ice experts can assess what appear to be the latest dramatic effects of climate change in Canada's Arctic. The 19,000-square-kilometre...
