ROB mag on the downfall of Canwest

In “The day Leonard Asper lost the street,” Globe and Mail reporter Grant Robertson calls January 28, 2008 the day Asper “lost Bay Street.”

Robertson writes:

“Defenders of Leonard Asper ask what the now 45-year-old son possibly could have done to avoid his company’s fall. Quite a lot, actually. What is almost always overlooked in CanWest post-mortems is that Asper missed three critical chances to save his company over a three-year period.”

He then examines in detail, these three situations. Read the article here.