CanWest Idol
By Frank Moher
Let’s play CanWest Idol! — in which we decide who should get to buy the bankrupt media company’s assets.
The finalists for the TV operation appear to be just two: Shaw Communications and Catalyst Capital. The former is the Alberta-based cable company; the latter is the front-organization for Leonard Asper and New York investment [...]
Maclean’s serves it cold
By Frank Moher
Jonathon Gatehouse’s biopsy of the Asper family in Maclean’s does a workmanlike job of pursuing the boss’s business. Leonard Asper is presented as earnest but clearly in over his head in trying to run CanWest Global, thus maximizing any damage the article might do to the company (probably not much). A heaping helping [...]
