Profile of CanWest News Service

All articles of CanWest News Service

• Canwest to make changes to newspaper auction after...
  TORONTO - Canwest Global Communications Corp. will make changes to the way the court-supervised sale of its newspapers and online businesses will ...
• Lawyers for Canwest, Goldman Sachs clash over...
  TORONTO - A battle between Canwest Global Communications Corp. (TSXV:CGS) and its investment partner Goldman Sachs grew a little more tense on ...
• Reducing salt comes with price
  To the Editor, The article from Canwest News Service on Nov. 17: "Commons tries to get food firms to lower salt content," is revealing in more ...
• Employers rethink retirement plans
  Fifty-nine per cent of employers are likely to reassess their retirement and pension programs by the end of this year as the onus for retirement ...
• Canwest says it must shift National Post to holding...
  TORONTO - Restructuring media giant Canwest Global Communications says it will be forced to shut down the unprofitable National Post if the ...
• Would ode to Dildo, N.L., fly on family-friendly CBC?
  The Newfoundland outpost of Dildo might be about to have its praises sung a second time thanks to the CBC. The Great Canadian Song Quest, a ...
• Canwest wants restructuring plan with creditors in...
  TORONTO - A lawyer for Canwest Global Communications says the media company wants to have a restructuring plan with its creditors approved by the ...
• Media conglomerate Canwest receives approval for...
  TORONTO - Canwest Global Communications Corp. (TSX:CGS), owner of Global Television and the National Post newspaper, has received court approval ...
• Canwests stake in Australian operation shrinks as...
  WINNIPEG - Canwest Global Communications Corp. (TSX:CGS) will have a smaller ownership stake in its Australian media division as a result of a ...
• Canwest says limited partnership wont make interest...
  WINNIPEG - Canwest Global Communications Corp. (TSX:CGS) said Monday the limited partnership which controls the bulk of its daily newspapers will ...
• Canwest to close TV stations in Victoria, Red Deer,...
  WINNIPEG - Canwest Global Communications Corp. (TSX:CGS) says it will close two of its local conventional television stations by the end of ...
• Canwest shares lose more than 50 per cent before...
  TORONTO - Canwest Global Communications Corp. (TSX:CGS) shares lost more than half their value Thursday in the heaviest trading of the battered ...
• Execs at Canwest newspaper operations would be in...
  TORONTO - High-ranking executives at the newspaper operations of media giant Canwest Global Communications Corp. (TSX:CGS) could be included in ...
• Canwest newspaper unions say theyre being asked for...
  TORONTO - Unions at Canwest Global Communications (TSX:CGS) newspapers say they are being asked to enter concession talks with the company, which ...
• Economy, debt not the reason TV is in trouble: Asper
  GATINEAU, Que. - The president of the Canwest Global media group is blaming the regulatory system for what ails the country's traditional ...
• Never too early to think of the beach
  As the weather gets warmer and vacation season fast approaches, going on a family get away to a resort down south may not be an option during ...
• Canwest faces Tuesday deadline for restructuring...
  TORONTO - Canwest Global Communications Corp. (TSX:CGS) is heading towards another deadline to restructure a debt agreement with its bankers on ...
• Shielding wife from gunman, husband felt her ebb away
  BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Long Huynh pushed his wife to the floor immediately after the gunman entered their classroom Friday morning. As Jiverly A. ...
• Canwest informally marketing Ten network in...
  TORONTO - Canwest Global Communications Corp. (TSX:CGS) is informally marketing its majority stake in Australia's Ten television network to local ...
• Canwest uses $34 million payment from Sun-Times to...
  TORONTO - Canwest Global Communications Corp. (TSX:CGS) made a minor inroad on its debt payments on Thursday after receiving $34 million from ...
• Canwest seeks content easing in abbreviated TV...
  TORONTO - Financially beleaguered Canwest Global Communications Corp. (TSX:CGS) has submitted licence renewal applications for its conventional ...
• DBRS downgrades divisions of Canwest, places under...
  TORONTO - Dominion Bond Rating Services has downgraded two divisions of Canwest Global Communications Corp. (TSX:CGS), and placed them under ...
• Canwest explores strategic alternatives to raise...
  TORONTO Canwest Global Communications Corp. (TSX:CGS) could put Australias Ten television network back on the auction block in an effort to ...
• Canadian diplomatic changes in store as new U.S....
  OTTAWA - Barack Obama's Jan. 20 inauguration could bring change not only to the top U.S. diplomatic job in Ottawa, but to Canada's ambassadorship ...
• MMORPG unseats NHL as Canadas top online subject
  In a slap shot to our national identity, Yahoo! Canada says hockey has been unseated as the country's top online search subject. The Internet ...
• Canwest stock falls ahead of fourth-quarter results,...
  TORONTO The stock of Canadian publisher and broadcaster Canwest Global Communication (TSX:CGS.A) fell Wednesday as the company faces cost ...
• English Leaders Debate Audience Says Harper Comes...
  Toronto, ON - The results of an near instantaneous Ipsos Reid/CanWest News Service poll, conducting during Thursday night's English-language ...
• Summer movie season highs and lows
  Now that the summer movie season is over, give or take a Vin Diesel movie, the world is already looking forward to the Oscar-happy fall, when the ...
• Taliban issue ultimatum to Canada
  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The Taliban issued a dire warning to Canada on Sunday that if it does not withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, ...
• The ivory tower is under attack
  In Newfoundland and Labrador, allegations of political interference in the hiring of a new president cast doubt on Memorial University's ...