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Oct 19, 2026
Jeremy AppelGUEST
I mean, there was, I didn't send you this one because it's not funny, but she was against the Iraq war.
Jeremy AppelGUEST
As a conservative commentator in Canada at a Canwest paper in the early 2000s, someone who was a big fan of Stockwell Day and Stephen Harper, as she was, who were writing in the Wall Street Journal saying that, you know, the real Canadians actually stand with America.
Jeremy AppelGUEST
She was saying they didn't make their case.
Jeremy AppelGUEST
I don't think they're telling the truth.
Dalbir BainsGUEST
I was in my mid to late twenties, and I was working in a corporate environment, although it was also a family environment.
Dalbir BainsGUEST
The company was Canwest Global, and the family that owned the controlling interest was the Asper family, and they were really astute ent-entrepreneurs, and they had built up a multi-billion dollar media empire over twenty-five years, and I was just coming into the second generation.
Dalbir BainsGUEST
I was taking over from the founder, and one of the things I learned early on was the importance of the underlying operations.
Dalbir BainsGUEST
The company had essentially conglomeratized itself through acquisitions and now was facing a page in their story where they had to actually understand and operate and own the businesses and get into the minutiae, if you will.
Scott MartinHOST
She didn't become a diehard, like, "We need to have spaces inside for smoking." But she's clearly very good at using her media voice.
Scott MartinHOST
And I think something in the book that you touch on quite interestingly is Canwest, which was s- founded by a Liberal leader in Manitoba.
Scott MartinHOST
This is really where Danielle Smith flourished.
Scott MartinHOST
So can you talk about her role in those days of, in the 2000s where she really plants her flag as this right-leaning voice that maybe you don't always agree with her, but you always want to know what she says.
Jeremy AppelGUEST
If you wanna come back by grace of conversion, you can, without the union.
Jeremy AppelGUEST
Otherwise, I'm gonna wait you out until you get decertified." And they submitted a unfair labor practices complaint regarding that, because he essentially admitted to bargaining in bad faith.
Jeremy AppelGUEST
But then, uh, what happened was he was selling what were known as the Southam newspapers, so Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, et cetera, uh, as well as the National Post, to Izzy Asper, who owned Canwest, which owned Global TV and a bunch of radio stations.
Jeremy AppelGUEST
As a condition of that deal, Black needed to settle the labor dispute.