J Robert Verdun
J Robert Verdun is an activist shareholder-rights Canadian advocate, an author and a former editor of a weekly paper. He was also a defendant in an important defamation lawsuit. North Waterloo Publishing Verdun was the founder or North Waterloo Publishing Ltd., the publisher (among other titles) of the weekly paper ''Elmira Independent'', of which he was Editor from 1974 to 1999. In 1990, the ''Independent'' was the winner of the Michener Award "for its blanket coverage of a prolonged legal battle over contamination of the Elmira-St. Jacobs municipal water supply." In 1999 he sold the newspaper to Torstar when David Galloway was Torstar's CEO. Galloway later became a witness against Verdun in the defamation lawsuit. Shareholder advocate Since the 1990s Verdun has been attending a dozen or so annual shareholders’ meetings a year. He has been instrumental in introducing several measures that benefit small investors in public companies. Amongst his accomplishments: * Int ...
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