At the time, Canada's largest privately owned newspaper publisher and radio broadcaster, with approximately 1,000 employees

• Managed a 15 person, finance department, supporting a 100,000 circulation daily newspaper, 45 weekly shopper papers and 7 radio stations
• Investigated potential acquisitions and strategic partnerships to complement existing operations
• Selected and implemented new business systems

• Several custom designed order entry and billing systems
• Sun Systems financial accounting software
• Microsoft Office software

• Rationalized the media group's investments in the radio industry using strategic parttnerships with competing radio stations
• Investigated a number of potential acquisitions to complement existing operations
• Selected and implemented a multi-currency financial accounting software
• Selected a Human Resource Infomation System (not implemented due to divestiture of most divisions of the company)
• Oversaw the financial components of the divestiture of Blackburn Media Group to a number of purchasers

• Sixty senior managers, some of whom had limited financial skills
• Numerous potential purchasers of portions of the busines
• Legal community

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