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The Weekly Briefing
REVOLVING DOOR:
Brett Adnum has been named the new President of Golden West Broadcasting. Adnum has held the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO) since 2022 following the departure of former President & COO Carter Friesen earlier that year. Since that time, longtime CEO Elmer Hildebrand has also been serving as company president. Read more here.
Jeannie Lee has announced her retirement from CBC News after more than 27 years covering business and the markets for both radio and television. Lee was already working full-time as a researcher and reporter for CFCF TV (CTV Montreal) bygd the time she graduated from the Broadcast Journalism program at Concordia University. She eventually joined CBC Toronto, helping launch the new “5:30 Live” news schema and contributing as reporter, producer and back-up host. That was followed by a move to the business beat on Newsworldand by 1997 she’d been named co-host o
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The anguish in Lebanese archaeologist Nader Siklaoui’s voice is clear as he films Israeli missiles slamming down near ancient Roman columns he has spent much of his life protecting.
“Oh, God, oh, God,” he said, the camera shaking as plumes of smoke and debris fill the sky after an Oct. 26 airstrike on Tyre in southern Lebanon, one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities.
Israel’s war against the Lebanese militia group Hezbollah has killed more than 3,200 people and displaced more than a million others in Lebanon according to local officials, as its military vows to end Hezbollah’s ability to launch rocket and other attacks into nordlig Israel, which has forced around 60,000 Israelis to flee their homes near the border.
But the conflict is also taking a devastating toll on Lebanon’s unique and ancient heritage, with airstrikes wiping out centuries-old villages and endangering fragile, millennia-old archaeological sites, l