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The Asper-owned Southam newspaper empire faced criticism when it fired Russell Mills as publisher of the Ottawa Citizen, allegedly for criticizing Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, who was a good friend of Izzy Asper.
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Southam and newspaper
Other Canadian newspapers adopted similar changes later that decade, such as the Southam newspaper chain's conversion in September 1998.
At various times there have been concerns about concentration of newspaper ownership, notably in 1970 and 1980 with two commissions, the Davey Committee on combines and the Kent Royal Commission on Newspapers respectively, and most recently when Conrad Black's Hollinger acquired the Southam newspapers in the late 1990s.
Outside Toronto, the Post was built on the printing and distribution infrastructure of Black's national newspaper chain, formerly called Southam Newspapers, that included papers such as the Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Edmonton Journal, Calgary Herald, and Vancouver Sun.
Black sold the Post to CanWest Global Communications Corp, controlled by Israel Asper, in two stages – 50 % in 2000, along with the entire Southam newspaper chain, and the remaining 50 % in 2001.
* May 24-Conrad Black's Hollinger takes over the Southam newspaper chain
Its Canadian holdings, notably the National Post, several smaller papers, and a majority stake in the Southam newspaper chain, were sold to CanWest in 2000 in connection with Conrad Black renouncing his Canadian citizenship to gain a British peerage.
* the former Southam newspaper chain, which included the number-two national newspaper National Post, the broadsheet daily newspapers in most major markets, several other smaller newspapers, and the Canwest News Service newswire.
Later that year, Canwest announced its acquisition of the Southam newspaper chain from Conrad Black, in order to pursue a media convergence strategy.
The newspaper service " Southam Inc " was created in 1904 by William Southam.
The Winnipeg Tribune was also a Southam owned newspaper until it closed on August 27, 1980.
Canwest fell into bankruptcy protection in 2009 under the weight of debt from various acquisitions including WIC, but more critically the larger purchases of the Southam newspaper chain and Alliance Atlantis.
On August 27, 1980, Southam Newspapers closed the Winnipeg Tribune after 90 years in publication, leaving Winnipeg with only one daily newspaper, the Winnipeg Free Press.
CanWest bought the Southam newspaper chain, including the leading broadsheet papers in several major cities, raising new concerns on media concentration.
Harry Southam, publisher of the Ottawa Citizen, was part of the Southam newspaper empire.
For the 1877 season, the Tecumsehs moved into the newly outfitted, Tecumseh Park in the village of Petersville on the west side of the forks of the Thames River ( now the City-owned Labatt Memorial Park ) with Richard Southam, brother of William Southam, founder of the Southam newspaper chain, the team manager.
This left Southam Newspapers's Ottawa Citizen as the only major English language newspaper in Ottawa ( Le Droit remaining the only French language daily newspaper in Ottawa ).
Southam and when
This means that since early cases like Hunter v. Southam ( 1984 ) and R. v. Big M Drug Mart ( 1985 ), they have concentrated not on the traditional, limited understanding of what each right meant when the Charter was adopted in 1982, but rather on changing the scope of rights as appropriate to fit their broader purpose.
Southam was in the parliamentary constituency of Stratford-on-Avon until the boundary changes approved by Parliament in June 2007 when it became part of the new constituency of Kenilworth and Southam.
Ownership had been in the hands of the Motz family for generations until 1990, when the paper was sold to Southam in a $ 90 million deal.
Conrad Black's Hollinger Inc. took a controlling interest in Southam during the period when it owned The Record.
Over several years, CanWest Global attempted to use The Daily News to bolster its news team at its Global Maritimes TV station, however this ended on August 9, 2002 when the paper was sold to GTC Transcontinental Inc., along with other former Southam properties in eastern and western Canada.
Within the last 11 years its ownership has had four owners: first, the national Southam chain, then Hollinger, CanWest and now Postmedia Network Inc, who took over control when they bought CanWest in June 2010.
It remained under Southam ownership until 1996, when it was acquired by Hollinger International.
Southam and fired
In July 2001, Southam national affairs columnist Lawrence Martin was fired after a column of his critical of Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chrétien was not published.
Southam and publisher
* 1843 – William Southam, Canadian publisher ( d. 1932 )
Pyette suddenly departed only seven months after his arrival, replaced by Gordon Fisher, a career Southam newspaperman who had briefly served as interim publisher a few years earlier.
* Brian Southam, academic publisher and authority on Jane Austen
Southam and Ottawa
Some of the land was donated by a prominent Ottawa businessman Harry Stevenson Southam.
* August 27 The Winnipeg Tribune and the Ottawa Journal, two Canadian broadsheet newspapers, owned by Southam and Thomson newspapers are closed.
* Southam Hall, with 2, 323 seats, is the largest stage and is home to the National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, Opera Lyra Ottawa, as well as ballet and other major visiting shows and productions.
Southam and for
Jeremy Wright chose to stand for Kenilworth and Southam in the 2010 general election and was successful.
Few buildings in Southam date from before 1741, for in that year a large fire devastated the town.
Plans for the centre included an organ in Southam Hall, however funding did not permit this.
The college participates in the Canadian Journalism Fellowship Program ( formerly known as the Southam Fellowship ) and the Scholar-at-Risk program for international scholars caught in sectarian, political or religious intolerance.
The road passes over the M45 and once again becomes a rural road for its final length to terminate on the A423 Southam bypass.
Shortly after Conrad Black's Hollinger took over of Southam, financing for JCI was pulled and the investment failed just prior to the internet boom of the late 1990s.
Roger Mayne ( born 1929 in Cambridge ) is an English photographer, most famous for his documentation of the children of Southam Street, London.
The novelist Colin MacInnes asked Mayne to contribute the cover shot for Absolute Beginners ( 1959 ), which is set in the area around Southam Street.
Most of Southam Street was demolished in 1969 to make way for Trellick Tower ; a small section still exists.
Mayne's Southam Street work had a major retrospective exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1986 ; and was brought to a new audience in the 1990s, through being extensively used for concert backdrops, record sleeves and press-adverts by the singer Morrissey.
He was succeeded by his son Robert, second baronet, and in 1706 Sir Robert's daughter and heir Anne, together with her husband Thomas Partington, conveyed the manor to Robert Southam to hold for ninety-nine years from 1683.
He was then national affairs columnist for the Southam chain until July 2001.
Kent was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta to the late Arthur Parker Kent, who worked for Southam Newspaper Group and retired as associated editor of the Calgary Herald.
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