Culture, the Miriam Webster Dictionary, Word of the Year

Source Global TV Vancouver, 12/16/2014.

Global TV is owned by Shaw:

1.  1966, Capital Cable Television Co. Ltd. is incorporated in Edmonton.

2.  1970, Capital Cable is granted its initial broadcasting license from the CRTC.

3.  1971, Shaw’s first cable customer is connected in Sherwood Park, Alta.

4.   One year later, more than 10 000 customers are connected. Capital Cable expands to markets across the country — from Victoria, B.C., to St. John's, N.L. — and into the B.C. Okanagan in 1972.

5.  1983, Capital Cable Television changes its name to Shaw Cablesystems Ltd. and is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

6.   1985,Shaw Cablesystems Ltd. becomes the fourth largest cable operator in Canada.

7.   1988,Shaw Cablesystems Ltd. moves into radio broadcasting, now owning the second largest group of stations in Alberta.

8.  1989, The Shaw Teddy Bears for Children program is introduced. More than 320 000 bears distributed since then.

9.   1991, Shaw becomes second largest multiple-system operator in Canada with acquisitions in Saskatoon and, in 1994, throughout Alberta, B.C. and Ontario.

10.   1993, Overall corporation changes name to Shaw Communications Inc. and then moves headquarters to Calgary in 1995. Shaw owned cable systems in the United States previously owned by Moffat Communications, serving six communities in Florida (Eastern Pasco County, Clermont, Palm Coast, Ormond Beach, West Palm Beach and Doral), and the Houston, Texas suburbs of Kingwood, Lake Conroe and Lake Livingston. In February 2003, the Florida systems would be sold to Time Warner Cable (with the West Palm Beach and Doral systems later sold to Comcast, and the other systems spun off to Bright House Networks), while the Texas systems were sold to Cequel III, as part of its then-Cebridge Connections subsidiary (now Suddenlink Communications)

11.      1996, Shaw introduces Internet services to residents of Calgary. The corporation also becomes the cable provider of choice for 1.5 million customers, celebrating its 25th anniversary.

12.      2005, Shaw launches Home Phone service, initially offering it to residents of Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg.

13.      2009, Shaw acquires Mountain Cablevision Ltd. in Hamilton, Ont. and becomes the largest cable company in Canada.

14.      2010, Shaw acquires Shaw Media, home to Global TV and many of Canada's “most-loved specialty networks”- archive stuff that is mostly over sixty year old.

However, Shaw /Time Warner Cable forgot or perhaps they just never knew- Canada is a British Empire Country.

15.      Canada is one of the British Commonwealth countries.

16.      The Brits invented, and speak, the ENGLISH language.

17.      Vancouver British Columbia is in Canada.

18.      The Miriam Webster  dictionary defines the language of the United States of the Americas language which is not ENGLISH-definitions, spellings, and pronunciations are all much different.

19.      CANADIAN I AM.

20.      I live in Vancouver. I speak English not some corrupted language invented-rather re-INVENTED as is usual-in the United States of the Americas.

We Canadians have our

We started developing it long before people first started to have nightmares over the United States of the Americas. We do not want or need a dictionary, a communication/cable company, or the United States of the Americas trying to change it.© Al (Alex-Alexander) D Girvan. All rights reserved.