Canadian
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news magazine
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television program which aired Sunday evenings on the Global Television Network.Bob Blakey, "Global pools media talent: New national show debuts today". '' Calgary Herald'', September 16, 2001. The program was launched in September 2001, with
Charles Adler Charles Adler may refer to:
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as host.Dan Brown, "Winnipeg broadcaster to host new national current affairs show: Charles Adler says Global Sunday will showcase politics' fresh faces". ''
National Post
The ''National Post'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet newspaper available in several cities in central and western Canada. The paper is the flagship publication of Postmedia Network and is published Mondays through Saturdays, with ...
'', July 27, 2001. Run separately from the rest of Global's news division, the program often reflected the political views of Global's founder,
Israel Asper
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and the Asper family, and was designed to showcase a Western Canadian perspective on Canadian political affairs."Outspoken broadcaster provides voice for West". ''
Prince George Citizen
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'', August 3, 2001.
The program ran a mix of features reporting and interviews, effectively acting as a cross between a
newsmagazine
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and an American-style Sunday talk show, and aired reportage and panel discussions featuring journalists from both
Global News
Global News is the news and current affairs division of the Canadian Global Television Network. The network is owned by Corus Entertainment, which oversees all of the network's national news programming as well as local news on its 21 owned- ...
and the network's co-owned
CanWest News Service
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network of newspapers.
The program's launch also spurred both of Global's major rival networks, CTV and CBC, to relaunch Sunday public affairs shows. CTV, which had not produced such a program since the cancellation of
Mike Duffy
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's '' Sunday Edition'' in 1999, relaunched its earlier show ''
Question Period
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As a right-wing voice in Canadian television, the show developed a loyal audience, and was broadcast weekly from studios in Calgary, the cultural hotbed of
Canadian conservatism
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. Adler was simultaneously host of a weekday
radio talk show
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on
CJOB
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in
Winnipeg
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, and commuted to Calgary on weekends to host ''Global Sunday''.
On February 24, 2002, the show staged and broadcast the candidate debates in the inaugural
leadership convention {{Politics of Canada
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Overview
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of the then-new
Canadian Alliance
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political party, with Adler as moderator.
Adler, who described his hosting style on the program as "a mix of
Larry King
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,
Ted Koppel
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Before ''Nightline'', he spent 20 years as a broadc ...
and
Vince McMahon
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", also recorded a weekly series of news commentaries for the network's weekday ''
Global National
''Global National'' is the English language flagship national newscast of Canada's Global Television Network. Editorial and production staff are based out of Global's national news centre at Global BC in Burnaby, British Columbia, with Dawna Frie ...
'' newscasts concurrently with his stint as host of the program. However, not wishing to continue his schedule of weekly flights to Calgary, Adler resigned after a year. The program was then hosted for the next number of months by a rotating roster of guest hosts, both Global News personalities and outside figures.Liane Faulder, "'Global Sunday' relaunches with new host". ''
Regina Leader-Post
The ''Regina Leader-Post'' is the daily newspaper of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and a member of the Postmedia Network.
Founding
The newspaper was first published as ''The Leader'' in 1883 by Nicholas Flood Davin, soon after Edgar Dewdney, ...
'', February 1, 2003.
In early 2003, Global named a permanent host in
Danielle Smith
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, who at the time was an editorial writer for the '' Calgary Herald''. In 2004, the program introduced "The Final Round", a weekly debate segment featuring
Stephen LeDrew
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and
Ezra Levant
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.
Cancellation
With the launch of ''Global National'''s weekend edition in February 2005, the program lost its coveted early-evening timeslot. Ratings and resources both dwindled, and the decision was made in August 2005 to cancel ''Global Sunday''.John Doyle, "The things you can learn from the CBC lockout". ''
The Globe and Mail
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'', September 1, 2005. The network replaced it with '' Global Currents'', which aired documentary reports, and merged some other features, including "The Final Round", into the Sunday edition of ''Global National''.
In 2011, Global resumed airing a weekly national public affairs show with ''