Topic: Canwest Global Communications Corp.

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Shaw Communications Intrigues Investors

Western Canada's diversified telecom Shaw Communications (NYSE:SJR) posted a large revenue increase for its fiscal first quarter but net income...

Cirque du Soleil: Quidam, the Dreamy, Poetic Circus Goes Arena

Quidam is a circus framed as the dream of a young girl who wanders away from home in order to return the hat of headless man who carries an...

HST timeline: What was Hansen cooking?

The Liberals have landed two major sucker punches on B.C. voters since the election _ the HST and the exploding deficit _ leaving the party's...

Fish switch at Metro grocery stores

(Atlantic cod. Photo: Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images, Canwest News Service) Quebec's Metro chain of grocery stores has made a major change to its...

Global Television Network

History Founding In the 1970s, a call went out for "third" television stations in several major cities in Canada. A group of investors, led by Al Bruner and Peter Hill, founded Global Communications Ltd. with the idea of building a cross-Canada, all-UHF ...
Four reporters who were banned from covering trials at Guantanamo have been offered an opportunity to be reinstated by requesting it in writing, a Pentagon spokeswoman said Wednesday.Bryan Whitman, a senior Pentagon public affairs official, made the offer in a letter ...

Canwest sells newspapers to National Post chief

Canadian media titan Canwest Global Communications on Monday sold its newspaper chain for 1.1 billion dollars (1.07 USD) to a group of its creditors headed by National Post president Paul Goldfrey, CBC said.Buyers will pay 950 million dollars in ...
PK) is catching a tail wind as it makes a play for CanWest Global Communications (CWGVF. Torstar beat analysts' forecasts by reporting sales of $334 million in the first quarter of 2010, and a 16 cents per share profit. More importantly, Torstar ...
The future of Canadian television came into high definition on Monday, as Shaw Communications (SJR) struck a deal that gives the cable company full control of CanWest Global Communications' (CWGVF. Shaw will pay $700 million (U.S.) to buy out Goldman Sachs ...