It's the same old story of the Irvings offering advertisers a much lower price so therefore at the end? These poor business people cannot compete against the Irving’s Billionaires.
Ken Langdon promise a few more surprises.
Watch Robert Jones story at 6:00pm on CBC television.
I repeat??? What would New Brunswickers know if it wasn’t for the CBC???
Ohhhhh yes.....I forgot!!!! We still have the Irving’s papers!!!!
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I don't mean to be a stickler for details, but CBC misspelt Edmundston. I'm sure there's a "d" in there. Maybe I'm misstaken.
No, theres no D. Has this been in the other media at all?
there is a d. Edmundston
The proper spelling is EDMUNDSTON (with two "D"s)
I should know, I'm from there.
It means "Edmund's Town" after Sir Edmund Head. (Little Known History Fact!)
List your names again here,all those feeling sorry for the poor irvings.Judges names not acceptable.
N.B. judge rules affidavits inadmissible in Irving case
Last Updated: Friday, October 19, 2007 | 7:59 PM AT
CBC News
A New Brunswick judge has thrown out affidavits meant to show the Irving media empire is using anti-competitive business practices to keep a former employee from starting a rival newspaper.
William Kenneth Langdon, former publisher of an Irving-owned weekly newspaper, filed the papers Thursday but Brunswick News Inc., owned by J.K. Irving, asked the Court of Queen's Bench on Friday to strike them from the record.
The affidavits were sworn by Ariane Whiting, a former employee of Irving's advertising flyer distribution company in Bathurst, and Gary Windsor, the owner of a flyer distribution business also in Bathurst.
Brunswick News lawyer Stephen Hutchison told Justice Peter Glennie that the affidavits contain extremely serious, unproven allegations that the company was engaging in anti-competitive business practices.
Hutchison characterized the affidavits as irrelevant, inflammatory and extremely prejudicial to the Irving company.
He also argued the documents should be to be removed from the court file because of the media attention they would receive.
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Langdon's lawyer, Eugene 'Pete' Mockler, argued that the case is all about Irving's business practices.
Langdon, who resigned as publisher of the Irving-owned Woodstock Bugle-Observer on Sept. 19, wants to start his own newspaper in Woodstock, called the Carleton Free Press.
Mockler said the company is effectively seeking a court-imposed order to prevent Langdon from competing.
Hearing continues Oct. 26
Hutchison replied that he's willing to acknowledge that Brunswick News uses non-competition agreements.
With that, Glennie ruled against the admissibility of the affidavits.
The hearing into whether to grant an injunction to prevent Langdon from entering into business with advertisers, customers or employees of his former newspaper will continue Oct. 26.
In the affidavit obtained by CBC before the court's ruling, Whiting said that from December 2001 until July 2007 she worked with NB Distributors-Brunswick News as a manager.
In the affidavit, Whiting said that in June 2007 she gave notice to her supervisor Eric Lawson that she was resigning and going to work for Gary Windsor and his company, Info-Sac Distributors Inc.
"Mr. Eric Lawson stated to me that to work for Gary Windsor 'would be career suicide.' Mr. Lawson stated to me that they would do whatever it took to make sure that Gary Windsor's business did not get off the ground and would not survive," Whiting said in her affidavit.
Money, scholarship offered, Whiting claims
Whiting's affidavit said Maurice Aube, who replaced her at The Northern Light newspaper, told her that "he had a $1 million budget available to be utilized to put Gary Windsor out of business."
In the affidavit, Whiting said that on Aug. 2, 2007, Aube telephoned her and asked for a meeting to discuss her returning to work for the Irving organization.
"I informed him that I was not interested in meeting with him, at which time he offered me $10,000 just to meet with him," she said in the affidavit.
When Whiting refused the offer, she said she was then "offered the opportunity to return to school, all expenses paid, with no strings attached.
"I advised Mr. Aube that I would think about the offer, but never got back to him," she said in the affidavit.
Outside court Friday, Langdon's lawyer said he was disappointed with the ruling against use of the affidavits.
"It would seem to me that the competition issue arises because there's another newspaper that may open in Woodstock, in addition to the one that's there," Mockler said.
Langdon had this to say: "We'll get this behind us, and Thursday we'll start printing a paper."
People are going to have to stop buying anything Irving owned controlled or has a hand in it and boycot the company!
If that was a poor person they were shovin affidavits against they would have the person tagged and bagged in a jail cell somewhere regardless of guilt or innocence!
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