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Israel Harold "Izzy" Asper OC OM QC (August 11, 1932 – October 7, 2003) was a Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate.He was the founder and owner of the now-defunct TV and media company CanWest Global Communications Corp [1] and father to its former CEO and President Leonard Asper, former director and corporate secretary Gail Asper, and former Executive Vice President David Asper. [2]
Canwest was founded in 1974 by Izzy Asper through the formation of CIII-TV in Toronto under the Global Television Network. The company expanded through the 1980s and 1990s, with the initial public offering in 1991 as a publicly traded corporation and the international expansion of its operations in Ireland , Australia , New Zealand , United ...
The late Izzy Asper—a Canadian lawyer, politician, and founder of the now-defunct media conglomerate Canwest Global Communications—is credited with the idea and vision to establish the CMHR, [8] [9] having first come up with the idea on 18 July 2000 to build the museum. [10]
Gail Sheryl Asper was born on 28 May 1960 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, [4] to the entrepreneur and philanthropist Izzy Asper and Babs Asper. [3] [6] In 1974, a year after the Yom Kippur War, Gail visited Jerusalem and its Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, which she said had a great impact on her.
David Asper KC (born November 26, 1958) is a Canadian lawyer and businessman, and a former acting dean of Robson Hall, the law faculty of the University of Manitoba.Asper is the son of Izzy Asper, the founder of Canwest, and is now the head of the charitable foundation named after his family.
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Asper is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Aemilius Asper, 1st or 2nd century Latin grammarian; Gaius Julius Asper, Ancient Roman politician of the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE; David Asper, Vice-president of CanWest Global Communications Corp. Frank W. Asper (1892–1973), Latter-day Saint composer and Mormon Tabernacle organist.
Asper family – Izzy Asper, founder of Global Television Network. David Asper; Gail Asper; Leonard Asper; Black family – George Montegu Black Sr., businessman Conrad Black, newspaper publisher; George Montegu Black II, 1950s president of Canadian Breweries; David Culver, former CEO of Alcan (father's sister was the maternal grandmother of ...