Word: canwest
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...Canadians are good at sliding stones but, as CanWest sportswriter Cam Cole noted, they are pretty great at sliding headfirst on cafeteria trays. Canada is now a skeleton superpower, finishing 1-2-4 in the men's event and adding a bronze in the women's. What did the face-first sliders do right? "Even though skeleton is an individual sport, the athletes learned to work together and trust each other," says skeleton team manager Teresa Schlachter. There was a support team--coaches, sport scientists, massage therapists, video experts and nutritionists--"passionate about what they do, who worked together...
...hernia operation; in Bangkok. King Bhumibol, on the throne since 1946, is the world's longest reigning monarch. FIRED. RUSSELL MILLS, 57, publisher of the Ottawa Citizen, for publishing articles critical of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chr?tien and calling for his resignation; in Ottawa. Mills was canned by the CanWest Global Communications Corp., headed by the Asper family, which has donated $161,000 to Chr?tien's party in the past five years. To protest, Ottawa Citizen journalists refused bylines for five days...
LEONARD ASPER Media Baron Two years ago, lzzy Asper, founder of the Canadian media company CanWest, passed his CEO title to his son Leonard, then 35. Now, through an acquisition binge, Leonard has increased the number of TV and radio stations CanWest owns and expanded into newspapers, making it Canada's largest media conglomerate and doubling revenues. CanWest has been acquiring media interests as far afield as Australia and Northern Ireland...
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