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Pierre Karl Peladeau

Tories Quietly Take Greater Control Of CBC

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 04.30.2013 | Canada Business

The Harper government is quietly seizing greater control of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, while a public advocacy group accuses the Tories of...

Quebec Appoints Sun News Owner To Head Hydro Board

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.17.2013 | Canada Business

QUEBEC — The Parti Quebecois government has appointed outgoing Quebecor chief executive Pierre Karl Peladeau as chairman of Hydro-Quebec. The bus...

End Of An Era For A Canadian Media Mogul

CP | LuAnn LaSalle, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.14.2013 | Canada Business

MONTREAL - The high profile and sometimes controversial CEO of Quebecor Inc. is stepping down to have more personal time, but Pierre Karl Peladeau wil...

Bell's Competition Runs Astroturf Campaign Against Astral Merger

CP | Posted 08.07.2012 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - Three major Canadian media companies have launched a campaign to oppose BCE Inc.'s planned purchase of Astral Media Inc., saying the deal wou...

Quebecor Threatens To Sue Radio-Canada

CP | Stephanie Marin, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.12.2012 | Canada Business

OTTAWA - Quebecor Inc. is threatening the CBC's French-language network with legal action unless the broadcaster advertises in the media giant's newsp...

Who Will Make the CBC Accountable for its $1.1 Billion Budget?

Peter Worthington | Posted 01.01.2012 | Canada Politics
Peter Worthington

Apart from the CBC's penchant for secrecy on how it spends the $1.1 billion of taxpayers' money it gets from the government, what I find unacceptable and disgraceful, is the CBC bidding on programs that the private sector would run, but can't match CBC funding which is given to them, rather than earned by them.

Sun News Parent Demands CBC Remove Web Posts

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.21.2011 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - Quebecor Media has sent Radio-Canada a lawyer's letter demanding it immediately remove allegedly defamatory material about the company from...

Sun News Chief vs. CBC

The Huffington Post Canada | Michael Bolen | Posted 12.20.2011 | Canada Politics

The war of words between Quebecor and Sun Media CEO Pierre-Karl Péladeau and the CBC is heating up. Péladeau testified before MPs Thursday mornin...

Quebecor Chief Defends Empire's Right To Probe CBC

CP | Heather Scoffield, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.20.2011 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - Quebecor president Pierre-Karl Peladeau insists his company is not engaged in a vendetta against its CBC competitor, but is instead upholding...

The Other Quebec Question

Posted 07.31.2011 | Canada

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- MONTREAL - Supporters of an NHL hockey team in Quebec City are among those cheering with the people of Winnipeg — and wonderin...