Name	Quebecor Inc.
Company logo
Type	Public ()
Foundation	(1950)
Location city	Montreal, Quebec
Location country	Canada
Location
Locations
Industry	diversified media and broadcasting
Services	Advertising Marketing Publishing
Revenue	$9.822 billion CAN (1% FY 2007)
Net income	-94 million CAN
Num employees	15,500 (2009)
Market cap	1.0 billion USD (2008)
Divisions	Groupe Archambault Le SuperClub Vidéotron Sun Media Groupe TVA Vidéotron
Homepage	www.quebecor.com
Intl	yes }}

Quebecor Inc. () is a communications company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was founded by Pierre Péladeau, and remains run by his family. Quebecor Inc. owns 55% of Quebecor Media Inc. - the broadcasting, communications and publishing company which operates various subsidiaries:

Vidéotron (cable television and internet service provider)

Sun Media (newspapers)

Osprey Media (newspapers)

TVA (terrestrial television network)

Canoe.ca (internet websites including Canoe.ca/Canoe.com portal and Archambault.ca)

Archambault stores (books, music and video)

Quebecor Media Book Group (book publishing companies)

TVA Publishing Inc. (largest magazine publishing company in Quebec)

Vidéotron Télécom (telecommunications)

Le SuperClub Vidéotron (DVD and Blu-Ray movie rental stores)

Messageries ADP (Quebec's largest book distributor)

Messageries Dynamique (Magazine distributor)

Corporate governance

Current members of the board of directors of Quebecor Inc. are: Françoise Bertrand, Jean La Couture, Jean-Marc Eustache, Pierre Laurin, Brian Mulroney, Pierre Karl Péladeau, Pierre Parent,

References

External links

Quebecor Inc. website

CRTC chart of Quebecor Inc.'s assets

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Name	Ezra Levant
Birth date	1972
Birth place	Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Death date
Resting place coordinates
Education	B.Comm; LLB
Alma mater	University of Calgary, University of Alberta
Religion	Judaism
Website	Ezra Levant
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Ezra Isaac Levant (born 1972) is a Canadian lawyer, conservative political activist and media figure. He is the founder and former publisher of the ''Western Standard'', hosts ''The Source'' daily on Sun News Network, and has written several books on politics.

Early life and education

Born in Calgary, Levant holds a commerce degree from the University of Calgary and a law degree from the University of Alberta. His great-grandfather emigrated to Canada in 1903 from Russia to establish a homestead near Drumheller, Alberta. Levant grew up in a suburb of Calgary. He attended a Jewish day school in his childhood before transferring to a public junior high school.

Levant campaigned for the Reform Party of Canada as a teenager and joined it as a university student. In 1992, while at the University of Calgary, his two-person team won the "best debating" category in the Intercollegiate Business Competition held at Queen's University. In 1994, he was featured in a ''Globe and Mail'' article on young conservatives after accusing the University of Alberta of racism for instituting an affirmative action program of hiring women and aboriginal professors. His actions outraged aboriginal law students, feminists, and a number of professors, and he was called to a meeting with the assistant dean who advised him of the university's non-academic code of conduct and defamation laws. As head of the university's speakers committee, Levant organized a debate between Doug Christie, a lawyer known for his advocacy in defence of Holocaust deniers and accused Nazi war criminals, and Thomas Kuttner, a Jewish lawyer from the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission.

Levant gained a reputation as the university's leading conservative. He was invited to write a guest column for the ''Edmonton Journal'' and interviewed on television. He spent the summer of 1994 in Washington, D.C., in an internship arranged by the libertarian Charles G. Koch Foundation Summer Fellow Program. He worked for the Fraser Institute in 1995, writing ''Youthquake'', which argued for smaller government, including privatization of the Canada Pension Plan. Levant saw "youthquake", the term he used to describe what he identified as a conservative youth movement of the 1990s, as similar to the 1960s civil rights movement except that instead of being enslaved by racism, his generation was "enslaved by debt" and, in order to liberate itself, society needed to dismantle elements such as trade unions, the minimum wage, universal health care, subsidized tuition and public pension plans.

Political activism

Views on Quebec

Levant favoured Quebec separatism and a yes vote during the 1995 Quebec referendum in a ''Calgary Sun'' column titled "10 Reasons to Hope for a Yes Victory" Among his 10 reasons were Levant's views that the departure of Quebec from Canadian confederation would lead to the elimination of bilingualism and multiculturalism, that it would give the Canadian government the "fortitude" to say no to "other special interest groups" such as First Nations and environmentalists; it would end corruption in Parliament, which Levant blamed on Quebec politicians, and clear the way for Preston Manning to become Prime Minister of Canada.

In 1996, Levant wrote a column saying that if the federal Liberals were re-elected, Alberta could separate from Canada making it "free from Quebec's demands."

Uniting the right

In 1996, Levant worked with David Frum to organize the "Winds of Change" conference in Calgary, an early attempt to encourage the Reform Party of Canada and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to merge so that a united rightwing party could defeat the Liberal Party of Canada in the subsequent election. While unsuccessful, the conference anticipated future attempts at a Unite the Right movement which ultimately led to the formation of the Conservative Party of Canada in 2003. Levant supported Preston Manning's United Alternative initiative in 1999, a more advanced attempt to unite the country's conservative movement and was one of the leaders of the movement to create the Canadian Alliance as an attempt to broaden the party's base.

Political organizer and aide

While he was a student-at-law, Levant was an active political organizer in the Reform Party, and guided the successful attempts by Rahim Jaffer (as the campaign manager for his nomination in Edmonton-Strathcona and later as his communications-director during the 1997 Federal Election) and Rob Anders to win party nominations. In 1997, he went to Ottawa to work for the Reform Party, becoming a parliamentary aide to party leader Preston Manning and being put in charge of Question Period strategy.

In 1999, after being dismissed as Preston Manning's legislative-assistant, Levant left Ottawa to join the editorial board of the fledgling ''National Post'' newspaper in Toronto. A close friend of Stockwell Day's son Logan, Levant proclaimed himself a "Stockaholic" and supported the elder Day in his successful attempt to defeat Reform Party leader Preston Manning for the leadership of the new Canadian Alliance.

In February 2001, he returned to Ottawa as communications director to Day. In May of that year he resigned after leaking to the ''National Post'' a letter that he sent to dissident MP Chuck Strahl in which he threatened to sue over Strahl's criticisms of his office.

Candidacy and resignation

Later in 2001, Levant returned to Calgary to practice law. By February 2002 he had won the Canadian Alliance party nomination for the riding of Calgary Southwest, but stepped aside after public pressure so that new party leader Stephen Harper could run there in a 2002 by-election. When the by-election was called, Levant, who said he spent over $150,000 to gain the nomination, announced on March 28 that he would not step aside. Later that night, however, he relented after widespread pressure from the party and accusations that he was putting himself ahead of the party.

Publishing

In 2004 Levant co-founded the ''Western Standard'', an Alberta-based magazine with an emphasis on Western Canada, political conservatism, and libertarianism. In October 2007 the magazine stopped publishing its print edition after failing to become profitable, becoming an online magazine. Levant later sold the publication's remaining assets to Matthew Johnson, the former legislative aide to Rahim Jaffer.

Levant wrote an irregular column for the ''Calgary Sun'' for ten years, until he was dropped in October 2007 because of "internal decisions." He continued to write occasional columns for the ''National Post'' on a freelance basis.

In 2010, Levant joined Sun Media a columnist and now has an on-air position on the Sun TV News Channel as host of The Source.

Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy

In February 2006, the ''Western Standard'' published the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons depicting Muhammad. Syed Soharwardy of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada and the Edmonton Council of Muslim Communities complained about the publication to the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission and a hearing was scheduled for January 2008. On the day of the hearing Levant republished the cartoons on his website.

At the request of Levant and his lawyers Levant was allowed to videotape his interview with Shirlene McGovern, a human rights investigator with the Alberta Human Rights Commission. Levant later published that video on YouTube where it spent several days among the top-ten viewed videos. Soharwardy's complaint was ultimately withdrawn, and a complaint he filed with Calgary police came to naught. An identical complaint by the Edmonton Muslim Council was dismissed by the Commission on August 5, 2008.

The timing of the Levant case was notable in that it coincided with a high-profile case considered by the Canadian Human Rights Commission (which Levant has criticized), the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal and the Ontario Human Rights Commission regarding complaints by the Canadian Islamic Congress about a column by Mark Steyn in Maclean's Magazine. None of the complaints obtained a ruling against Steyn or Maclean's.

Stance against the Alberta Human Rights Commission

Levant is a fierce critic of the Alberta Human Rights Commission, particularly concerning Rev. Stephen Boissoin, who in the Lund v. Boissoin matter was fined $7,000 and banned from publicly "disparaging ... gays and lesbians" in May 2008. This case concerned a letter published by the ''Red Deer Advocate'' in 2002 in which Boissoin attacked the "homosexual agenda" as "wicked". In June 2008, Levant republished Boissoin's letter on his blog. When the AHRC dismissed the resulting complaint in November 2008, Levant accused the HRCs of religious discrimination, asserting that "100% of the CHRC's targets have been white, Christian or conservative" and that "It's legal for a Jew like me to publish [Boissoin’s letter]. It's illegal for a Christian like Rev. Boissoin to publish it." The HRC's ruling was overturned by the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta in 2009, on the grounds that Levant had the right to free speech.

Support and criticism

Levant's case has attracted the attention of organizations such as PEN Canada, the Canadian Association of Journalists, and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association — all of which have called for reform of the commissions. He has been featured on Glenn Beck's show on CNN. Levant supported the Canadian government's decision to refuse George Galloway entry into Canada in March 2009. Although Levant described it as "an immigration matter", free speech advocates protested this move, citing it as a hypocritical double standard.

Libel cases

In 1988, Levant wrote a Reform Party fundraising letter in which he criticized Alberta Progressive Conservative Senator Ron Ghitter . Ghitter sued for defamation and in 2000, Canadian Alliance MP Rob Anders and Levant admitted liability and issued a formal apology and undisclosed damages to settle the suit.

According to Levant, after the HRC cases against him were dismissed, "the most aggressive members of the human rights industry proceeded to punish [him] by filing over 20 law society complaints and five defamation suits against [him]. ... the point of all these lawsuits [is] just to bury [him] in an avalanche of paperwork and bills, to get [him] to shut up. So far, it ain't working."

The Law Society of Alberta had found that Levant violated the following rules of professional conduct: to “respect and uphold the law in personal conduct,” to “seek to improve the justice system,” to not “ act in a manner that might weaken public respect for the law,” to be “courteous and candid,” and to not “harass any person or discriminate against any person” on various prohibited grounds and ordered Levant to attend a "mandatory conduct advisory" after which the matter was dropped.

As a result of one lawsuit, Levant was ordered to pay $25,000 to Giacomo Vigna, a Canadian Human Rights Commission lawyer, for libelling him with "reckless indifference" in his blog. Justice Robert Smith ruled that Levant "spoke in reckless disregard of the truth and for an ulterior purpose of denormalizing the Human Rights Commission across Canada which makes his statements malicious in that sense" and ordered Levant to remove the libellous materials from his blog.

Lawyer Richard Warman is also suing Levant as well as Kathy Shaidle, Kate McMillan of Small Dead Animals and several other conservative bloggers for libel over statements made about Warman on Free Dominion. Levant says this "lawsuit isn't logical, or serious. It's a nuisance suit."

Levant is also being sued by Warren Kinsella for libel, asking for $5,000,000. Levant has called Kinsella's suit "laughable".

George Soros

In September 2010, Levant wrote a column for Sun Media accusing George Soros of funding avaaz.org, a group lobbying to stop Sun Media being granted a license for Sun TV News Channel, and strongly attacking Soros's character and history by alleging that as a child he collaborated with the Nazis. Soros threatened to sue Sun Media for libel and on September 18, Sun Media issued a retraction and apology to Soros stating that: :''On September 5, 2010, a column by Ezra Levant contained false statements about George Soros and his conduct as a young teenager in Nazi-occupied Hungary. ...'' :''The management of Sun Media wishes to state that there is no basis for the statements in the column and they should not have been made.'' :''Sun Media, this newspaper and Ezra Levant retract the statements made in the column and unreservedly apologize to Mr. Soros for the distress and harm this column may have caused to him.''

Recent activities

In July 2008, Levant was invited to be a witness before the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus "about the threat posed by radical Islam using Western legal mechanisms as weapons".

From 2009 until 2010, Levant worked as a lobbyist for Rothman's Incorporated, a manufacturer and distributor of tobacco products.

In March 2010, Levant accompanied U.S. conservative personality Ann Coulter on a Canadian speaking tour. Her speech at the University of Ottawa was canceled at the last minute, apparently by its organizers, because of what Levant called "physical danger to Coulter and the audience" from protesters. The Ottawa Police later disputed any claims of unrest or violence.

In September 2010, Levant published a book, ''Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands'', arguing a moral case for developing the Athabasca oil sands rather than importing oil from nations with bad records concerning human rights and the environment. The book was the winner of the 2011 National Business Book Award, awarded on May 12, 2011 in Toronto.

Levant hosts ''The Source'', an evening talk show host on the Sun News Network and writes a regular column for the Sun Media chain of newspapers.

Books

Notes

External links

Ezra Levant's blog

YouTube Account

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name	Mario Dumont
honorific-suffix	BA MNA
order	Leader of the Opposition (Quebec)
term start	March 26, 2007
term end	November 5, 2008
predecessor	André Boisclair
successor	Pauline Marois
order2	Leader of the ADQ
term start2	1994
term end2	March 6, 2009
predecessor2	Jean Allaire
successor2	Sylvie Roy (interim)
office3	MNA for Rivière-du-Loup
term start3	September 12, 1994
term end3	March 6, 2009
predecessor3	Albert Côté
successor3	Jean D'Amour
birth date	May 19, 1970
birth place	Cacouna, Quebec, Canada
party	Parti libéral du Québec (1985-1994)Action démocratique du Québec (1994-present)
spouse	Marie-Claude Barrette
children	AngelaCharlesJuliette
alma mater	Concordia University
profession	Politician
footnotes	}}

Mario Dumont (born May 19, 1970 in Saint-Georges-de-Cacouna, Quebec) is a television personality and former politician in the province of Quebec. He was a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA), and the leader of the Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ), from 1994 to 2009. After the 2007 Quebec election, Dumont obtained the post of Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly.

Following his party's poor showing in the 2008 Quebec election, he announced his resignation as ADQ leader, and subsequently joined the television network V to host a daily news and talk show, ''Dumont'', which began in 2009.

Biography

Dumont and his wife, Marie-Claude Barrette, have three children: Angela, Charles, and Juliette.

Political profile

Dumont bought his first membership card in the provincial Liberal Party at age 15. He stated to his school friends that in the future he would be Quebec's premier. Dumont was a former President of the Parti libéral du Québec's Youth Commission, but had a falling out with the party following the rejection of the Allaire Report proposing maximalist powers for Quebec after the collapse of the Meech Lake Accord.

''The first Liberal sovereignists'' Dumont called himself and Michel Bissonnet, who preceded Dumont as leader of the Liberal youth wing. This was the group that led the Liberal sovereignist faction while Liberal premier Robert Bourassa remained unopposed.

Dumont organized the "Liberals for the No side," in the 1992 referendum on the Charlottetown Accord.

He and Liberal party insider Jean Allaire played a central role in the creation and development of the ADQ in 1994. He succeeded Allaire as leader after the latter resigned for health reasons.

Dumont was elected as an ADQ member of the National Assembly for Rivière du Loup in the 1994, 1998, 2003, and 2007 elections. Dumont holds a Bachelor in Economics from Concordia University (1993) and completed some graduate work at the Université de Montréal.

In the 1995 Quebec Referendum, Dumont joined with Parti Québécois Premier Jacques Parizeau and Bloc Québécois leader Lucien Bouchard, who wooed him and with whom he remains close, in support of the sovereigntist campaign. In subsequent years, however he changed positions on the issue, arguing that the sovereignty question had been decided and that Quebecers had no desire to revisit it. The constitutional position of the ADQ has since been "Autonomist", favouring increased powers and responsibilities for Quebec while remaining within Canada. In practical terms, Dumont has supported the creation of a Quebec constitution, the change of the province's name to that of the "autonomous state of Québec", and the collection of all taxes by the provincial government, with the funds necessary for the federal government to fulfill its constitutional responsibilities being transferred to it by the province.

Since the 1998 provincial election, Dumont has distinguished himself primarily for his stances on economic issues, which are generally considered to be right of centre in the context of the predominantly social-democratic Quebec political scene. He advocates the payment of a cash allowance to parents who do not wish to make use of the province's 7 dollar a day daycare program, changes to the provincial health system that would allow private for profit health care and private health insurance alongside the public system, the abolition of school boards, the encouragement of private education, a tougher criminal justice system, reductions in the size of the provincial bureaucracy, and the repayment of the province's $127 billion government debt.

Dumont was personally very popular. In fact, for many years, the ADQ tried to capitialize on Dumont's personal popularity by using the official name ''Action démocratique du Québec-Équipe Mario Dumont'' (''Action démocratique du Québec-Team Mario Dumont''). However, this didn't translate to support for his party; it never won much support in Montreal or the Outaouais.

2007 Quebec election

In the 2007 Quebec election, the ADQ won 41 seats with 31% of the popular vote, and formed the Official Opposition in the National Assembly. Prior to the dissolution of the National Assembly, the ADQ had held only five seats, and as a result did not have official party status. However, the ADQ failed to win seats in several major cities including Montreal, Gatineau, Saguenay, Longueuil, Laval and Sherbrooke.

However, after the election, the popular support for the party decreased gradually. A late-April 2008 Crop-La Presse poll showed the party in third position with 17%, more than 20% behind the PLQ.

2008 Quebec election

On October 23, 2008, two ADQ MNAs, André Riedl and Pierre Michel Auger, crossed the floor to the governing Liberal Party, embarrassing Dumont. Quebec premier Jean Charest subsequently called a snap election for December 8, 2008. A Léger Marketing poll conducted between Friday, November 14 and Monday, November 17, showed the Liberals with 44% support, the PQ with 33%, and the ADQ with 15%.

Following ADQ's poor results in the general election, Dumont announced his political retirement after his party won a meager seven seats (17% of the vote) on December 8, 2008.

Subsequent career

At TQS' 2009 upfronts presentation, it was announced that Dumont would join the network in the fall as host of a daily news and information series, ''Dumont 360''. The series launched in September 2009, shortly after the network was rebranded as V.

Votes of confidence

April 2000	Saint-Hyacinthe	96.9%
September 2004	Drummondville	95.7%
March 2008		94.8 %

Bibliography

''L'Instinct Dumont'', Denis Lessard (Quebec: Voix Paralleles, 2007)

References

External links

Biography at National Assembly of Quebec

Genealogy : Mario Dumont

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Craig Oliver (born 1938) is a reporter for Canada's CTV television network. He is currently variously identified as chief political correspondent and chief parliamentary correspondent, and is co-anchor of the weekly public affairs series ''Question Period.''. Oliver was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and grew up in Prince Rupert, British Columbia. He has been a reporter since 1957.

Oliver was previously CTV's Ottawa bureau chief. He was a personal friend to the late Pierre Elliot Trudeau.

Oliver is legally blind, a condition he developed late in life. Oliver has won two Gemini Awards and the President's Award from the Radio and Television News Directors' Association. He has also won the Gold Ribbon Award from the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, the Charles Lynch Award from the National Press Gallery. The University of Regina honoured Oliver in June 2009, with an Honorary Doctorate of Laws degree.

References

External links

CTV.ca - Question Period

Canadian Association of Broadcasters

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Pierre Karl Péladeau is President and CEO of Quebecor Inc., Quebecor Media Inc. and Sun Media Corporation. He was educated in Montreal and Paris. He holds a degree in philosophy from Université du Québec à Montréal and a law degree from Université de Montréal.

Péladeau is the son of the Quebecor founder Pierre Péladeau. He joined his father’s management team at an early age. He first started in acquisition and business development participating in the acquisition of BCE Publitech which made Quebecor the largest printer in Canada. He played a leading role in the acquisition of Maxwell Graphics which gave the Company a significant presence in the U.S. market. He also was involved in the acquisition of Donohue Inc., one of North America's most efficient pulp and paper companies.

Peladeau was appointed President of Quebecor Communications Inc. in 1991. This division included the Company's main publishing assets and some distribution and retail operations.

In 1994, Péladeau relocated to Paris to help the company further its growth. As President of Quebecor Printing Europe he grew the new European subsidiary through a series of acquisitions in France, the United Kingdom and Spain, building it into Europe's largest printer. In 1997, after the sudden death of his father, he returned to the Montreal head office to assume the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Quebecor Printing Inc. with overall responsibility for the Company's worldwide operations. In 1999, he carried out the acquisition of World Color Press by Quebecor Printing Inc. The acquisition created Quebecor World Inc., one of the world's largest printers. Quebecor World has operations in 17 countries on three continents and employs approximately 35,000 employees.

In 1998, Péladeau spearheaded the acquisition of Sun Media Corporation, making Quebecor the second largest newspaper chain in Canada. In 1999, the Board of Directors of Quebecor Inc. named him President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. In 2000, he was responsible for the acquisition of Groupe Vidéotron, the largest cable TV operator in Quebec, and TVA, the largest French-language broadcaster in the country. Shortly afterwards all of the Company's media properties were brought under one roof with the creation of Quebecor Media. Quebecor Media is one of the largest media operations in Canada. It is engaged in newspaper publishing (Sun Media Corporation), cable television, internet access provider and local telephony (Vidéotron ltée), broadcasting (TVA Group Inc.), Web technology and integration (Nurun Inc.), Internet portals (Canoe Inc.), book and magazine publishing (Publicor and TVA Publications Inc.), retailing of books and entertainment products (Archambault Group Inc. and Le SuperClub Vidéotron ltée) and business telecommunications (Vidéotron Télécom ltée).

Péladeau sits on the Boards of several Quebecor companies and is active in many charitable and cultural organizations.

PKP as he is affectionately known by his employees is decidedly anti-union. He recently was successfully in holding employees of Journal de Montreal and Journal de Quebec hostage, forcing major concessions in their collective agreement thanks to little support from Quebec's labour board. He has worked to centralize and standardize content across his newspaper products at the expense of local coverage.

This has created a thriving newspaper business for other newspapers (and start-ups) that have adopted a hyper-local approach.

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