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news magazine
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television program which aired Sunday evenings on the
Global Television Network
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.Bob Blakey, "Global pools media talent: New national show debuts today". ''
Calgary Herald
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History
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'', September 16, 2001. The program was launched in September 2001, with Charles Adler 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
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'', 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
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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
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, 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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right-wing
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voice in Canadian television, the show developed a loyal audience, and was broadcast weekly from studios in
Calgary
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, the cultural hotbed of
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. Adler was simultaneously host of a weekday
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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
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of the then-new
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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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and
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", also recorded a weekly series of news commentaries for the network's weekday ''
Global National
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'' 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
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The newspaper was first published as ''The Leader'' in 1883 by Nicholas Flood Davin, soon after Edgar Dewdney, Lieutenan ...
'', February 1, 2003.
In early 2003, Global named a permanent host in
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, who at the time was an editorial writer for the ''
Calgary Herald
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History
''The C ...
''. In 2004, the program introduced "The Final Round", a weekly debate segment featuring
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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
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'', 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 ''