the Northwest Territorial Bar, and served as counsel to Northwest Territorial Airways for almost a decade. He then traveled across the far north extensively. He was a co-founder of a range of media companies, especially broadcasting/communications/ publication enterprises, including: CUC Broadcasting Limited (Canada's fifth largest cable MSO before it was acquired by Shaw Communications in 1995, now Canada's second largest cable MSO); national specialty TV channels in lifestyle, youth (YTV) and music; CityTV (Canada's first independent UHF station); MTV-Multilingual Television (Toronto) (Canada's first independent multilingual broadcasting station – now OMNI TV); CUC Cablevision (UK) Limited (Telecential) (now part of one of the United Kingdom's larger cable MSOs); Northern Communications, Ontario a Northern Ontario Company, comprising cable, TV (CBC and CTV) and radio stations – French and English. He co-founded one of the longest private microwave companies in Canada that ran from Windsor to Toronto to mid-Northern Ontario, Canbras Communications Corporation, (now part of Brazil's third largest cable MSO); and Multivision Communications Corp. (Bolivia's largest MMDS Hyper Cable and cable MSO). He served on the board of Ukraine Enterprise Corporation, which made early investments in Ukraine. He was also a lead director of Toronto Life Publishing Company Limited, which published Toronto Life (after it merged with Toronto Calendar) and Toronto Life Fashion, two of Canada's leading lifestyle and fashion magazines, and co-founded Toronto Life Fashion File, which is now seen on television around the world. In addition, he served as a governor of the Canadian Opera Company and, for over a decade, was the chairman and a board member of the O'Keefe Centre (now "Sony Centre for the Performing Arts"), Canada's largest public performing arts centre. He served on the board of the Shaw Festival (Canada's leading theatrical festival dedicated to the works of George Bernard Shaw and his contemporary playwrights), the planning committee of the Stratford Festival (Canada's leading theatrical festival dedicated to the plays of William Shakespeare), and the Festival of Festivals (now the Toronto International Film Festival). He served as chairman of the City of Toronto Asia/Pacific Committee and vice-chairman of the Toronto-Chongqing Association and Toronto-Frankfurt Friendship Association. In 2011 and 2012, he cofounded and currently serves as chair of The Wellington Street Post, The Penn Ave Post, Israel News Cloud and HollyPost, in a network of online 24/7 news sites around the globe. Those news sites use technology to bring together the diversity of the blogosphere and