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Colbert bails out U.S. team, and it's no laughing matter for Games organizers

D erek Parra's sport has suddenly gone from obscurity to celebrity, and the U.S. speed-skating coach admits he's as shocked as anyone. "This kind of just fell into our laps," Parra said after practice yesterday, referring to the sponsorship deal U.S. ...

From GRANT ROBERTSON, Globe and Mail,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Basketball Association,  NFL,  Trevor Marsicano

One for the revolution, please

The punch came hard and fast. It was 23 years ago, but Mario Livich still remembers the sting. The fist dropped him to the pavement. As he lay on the ground, stunned, the Vancouver teenager who had taught himself how to hustle tickets had a single ...

From GRANT ROBERTSON, Globe and Mail,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: eBay Inc.,  Peter Gabriel,  Miley Cyrus,  General Motors,  Calgary Flames

Feds eye move into battle over TV-cable fees

T he federal government is positioning itself to wade into the all-out battle raging between Canada's big television networks and the country's cable and satellite carriers. At regulatory hearings this week where CTV, Global and CBC are pushing for the ...

From GRANT ROBERTSON, Globe and Mail,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: CBC,  James Moore

CRTC blasts both sides in TV dispute

C anada's big television networks and the cable industry have fought a bitter war against each other in recent months, but both sides are now facing an unexpected attack from the head of Canada's broadcast regulator. Making no effort to hide his anger, ...

From GRANT ROBERTSON, Globe and Mail,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Rogers Communications,  CBC

CTV proposes TV shakeup

C TV is proposing a major shakeup of the Canadian television sector that would see the country's large networks yank their signal or black out popular programming if they are unable to agree to financial terms with cable and satellite carriers. The ...

From GRANT ROBERTSON, Globe and Mail,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Rogers Communications,  CBC,  Shaw Communications Inc.

Murdoch bets on survival without Google

R upert Murdoch has long complained that Google Inc. GOOG-Q is getting a free ride off his newspapers, comparing the Internet search giant to a common criminal and a “plagiarist” when it links his publications such as The Wall Street Journal to Google ...

From GRANT ROBERTSON, Globe and Mail,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  News Corporation Limited,  Wall Street Journal,  New York Post,  Microsoft Corporation

Fugly Friday : Aiseikai Hospital has no opthamologist on staff

With all the hullabaloo over medical reform in the U.S., you might wonder what health care looks like in other parts of the world. At this hospital in Japan, your care comes with a healthy side order of flashing, blinking Lucky Cats, and a prescription ...

From GRANT ROBERTSON, Download Squad,  6 Nov 2009

CanWest-Goldman battle erupts

A little-known numbered company inside CanWest Global Communications Corp. is now at the heart of a major legal battle between Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and the powerful bondholders controlling the media company. Goldman is attacking the distressed ...

From ANDREW WILLIS AND GRANT ROBERTSON, Globe and Mail,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Goldman Sachs,  John Douglas

Court okays CanWest shift of National Post

A n Ontario judge has approved a proposal by CanWest Global Communications Corp. CGS-T to shift its flagship National Post newspaper to a subsidiary that contains the company's other newsprint assets, such as the Vancouver Sun and Ottawa Citizen. In ...

From GRANT ROBERTSON, Globe and Mail,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Bank of Nova Scotia

The CanWest dream didn't die in October when the company entered creditor protection. No, it died long before that. 28/01/2008, to be exact

O n a deep winter morning last year, Leonard Asper summoned a dozen or so Bay Street analysts and investors to Toronto's stately King Edward Hotel for a private lunch. The city was knee-deep in snow, but inside the hotel's Kensington Room, grilled ...

From GRANT ROBERTSON, Globe and Mail,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Leonard Asper,  Goldman Sachs,  Alliance Atlantis,  Conrad Black,  Rogers Communications

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