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The Global Television Network (more commonly called Global, or occasionally Global TV) is a Canadian English-language terrestrial television network. It is currently Canada's second most-watched private terrestrial television network after CTV, and has fifteen owned-and-operated stations throughout the country. Global is owned by Corus Entertainment — the media holdings of JR Shaw and other members of his family.
Global has its origins in a regional television station of the same name, serving Southern Ontario, which launched in 1974. The Ontario station was soon purchased by the now-defunct CanWest Global Communications, and that company gradually expanded its national reach in the subsequent decades through both acquisitions and new station launches, building up a quasi-network of independent stations, known as the CanWest Global System, until the stations were unified under the Ontario station's branding in 1997.

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  1. C

    Shenzhou 6 Launch: Implications for the Global Space Industry

    Shenzhou 6 was launched earlier today. What do you think the implications are for the worldwide space industry, and also where do you think the Chinese may be headed with this? How long until they get to the Moon, Mars, or surpass NASA? Also, if given the chance, would you take a ride on a...
  2. B

    Understanding Global Dimming: Effects of Pollution on Sunlight and Climate

    As we know about global warming , how many of you have heard of global dimming? As you may well guess, it's all to do with the pollution effects of sunlight over the whole world, particularly in places like south east asia where there is a hell of a lot of coal burning and eccesive factories...
  3. P

    News What is the Clinton Global Initiative and its Impact on Future Generations?

    He's not done making change! Good for him! http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/18/AR2005091800441.html In his closing remarks Saturday the first annual Clinton Global Initiative, the former president promised progress reports on the more than 190 initiatives...
  4. A

    Is the debate over global warming true or false?

    Hey there.. My pops read a book by Michael Crichton or someone like that that basically says global warming is not occurring. Every science magazine I read continually talks about global warming and shows how physicsists, climatologists, etc, are all working on ways to help remove CO2 from...
  5. Ivan Seeking

    Key Argument for Global Warming Critics Evaporates

    "Key Argument for Global Warming Critics Evaporates" http://www.livescience.com/environment/050811_global_warming.html
  6. Ivan Seeking

    Oregon summers reflect global warming

    "Oregon summers reflect global warming" http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/uoo-uoo080805.php
  7. P

    News Compassion versus Military Action - Which Will End Global Terrorism?

    Hey kat, I still don't have an axe to grind, but I saw a report that I found really chilling just now and it applies directly to you comment about an attack on Iran: Check the link. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20050802&articleId=791 I thought I...
  8. Andre

    Relationship between CO2 and Global Warming

    The vote of the majority may say more about the convincing power of the ideas than provide an good understanding of the reality. But what do we think?
  9. P

    News US state department won't report on sharp rise in global terror

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/26/AR2005042601623.html Why is it thought that aggression will lead to less terror? Particularly pre-emptive aggression? This is from a few months ago, and I don't know if it has been discussed already. I searched for relevant...
  10. Andre

    Global warming and glaciers melting

    Global warming and "glaciers melting" In another thread I promised to go over all the alarming climate features like glaciers melting, sea levels rising etc, I think that was actually off topic over there so I start a fresh one. About the glaciers and ice sheets; yes, most glaciers are...
  11. P

    News Wow Bush says humans contribute to global warming

    Wow! Bush says humans contribute to global warming! http://news.ft.com/cms/s/cb0c3b94-ee84-11d9-98e5-00000e2511c8.html Has hell frozen over?
  12. P

    Regarding sticky: Reviews on Global Warming

    Monique: Thank you for posting links to the two reviews on climate change, in the sticky thread. I am heartened to see that in fact, the PF are not comprised of global warming skeptics, as was my first impression. Both reviews lie with consensus opinion. It's been my experience that all "anti"...
  13. Loren Booda

    Who is the true hero in saving our world from ourselves?

    A person who, more than any other living human, transcends political boundaries and will help to save our world from ourselves. Who that might be?
  14. X

    News Is capitalism compatible with individualism?

    Does capitalism seek to create an individualistic society? Evidence shows it does exactly the opposite. Even if some inequality may be necessary the distribution of wealth and earnings is unfair, dysfunctional, or immoral in capitalism. In the US, the shares of earnings and wealth of the...
  15. Andre

    Global Warming and tell tale leafs

    According to http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/figspm-2.htm the carbon dioxide level has been rather constant thougout the last millennium before it started to skyrocket in the late 19th century. This information is based on the contents of ice cores of Polar ice sheets and glaciers...
  16. Ivan Seeking

    Hurricane Season could Renew Global Warming Debate

    http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/31031/story.htm
  17. C

    US Air Force Developing Space Weapons: A Global Arms Race?

    It seems GWB has given green signal to US Air Force to develop space weapons. Is it really true and is it going to trigger an arms race. What are the other countries doing? I don't think UN would be of much help! :smile:
  18. wolram

    Kyoto-Clock/"The Kyoto Clock: Counting Down to Global Climate Action

    The kyoto Clock http://www.junkscience.com/
  19. Monique

    Is There Scientific Consensus on Human-Induced Global Warming?

    There is controversy about how certain the scientific community is of its conclusions about global warming: whether humans are influencing the climate and whether global temperatures will continue to rise rapidly in this century. There are two reviews that can be used as a reference for...
  20. 9

    Could Global Thermonuclear War Wipe Out Human Civilization?

    I have a question about nukes. If all the nukes in the entire world were detonated at once and dispersed for maximum kill, we're talking China, Russia, Pakistan, USA, etc... evertthing Could we kill all the human civilazition, or if not, what percentage could we kill? I'm having a...
  21. Ivan Seeking

    When is Global Warming Significant?

    This number came up regarding the Permian mass extinction http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/da yearthdied.shtml I never realized that the threshold was so low. http://www.solcomhouse.com/metnoaa.htm This also ignores any potential tipping points which could come much sooner.
  22. J

    Local maximum and global maximum.

    hey guys...Can someone help me out here...i'm trying to understand what the difference between a global maximum and a local maximum is? arn't they the same??
  23. T

    Global warming raise sea levels?

    I know this may sound extremely silly... but, all ice at the north pole is floating... creating mass that would make the ocean higher than it would be... would that ice not be there, when ice melts it takes up less volume than when it is frozen? How would the north and south poles melting raise...
  24. A

    Show Global Min. of f(x,y): x>= 0.1, y>= 0.1

    hi. I've got another problem. i have the function : f(x,y) = x^2 + y^2 +(xy)^-1 iam supposed to use the "extremalvalue theorem" to show that this function have a global minimum on the area x>= 0.1 ,y>= 0.1 and i also need to argue if the same thing is satisfied for x>0 and y>0. for...
  25. D

    Is global warming antropogenic?

    I doubt it, can anybody back up their opinions with credible sources and/or reason's why they think global warming is, or isn't human caused? I am interested in your opinions, that's why I am posting this topic. Edit: 78 members and 558 guests and 213 spiders (whatever the hell those are)...
  26. S

    Global Food Exporters: Japan, USA, Australia, Canada

    Which of the following countries is not one of the major exporters of food? 1. Japan 2. USA 3. Australia 4. Argentina 5. Canada I read somewhere that the U.S. was the second largest exporter and Canada followed as the third largest one. I also think that Argentina is a top exporter...
  27. J

    Is methane gas contributing more to global warming than CO2?

    Hi, Hers's my simple idea about global warming. The suns energy is absorbed by the earth. The Earth re-emits this energy as heat. Human technology emits greenhouse gasses and produces more heat. Green house gasses are increasing in the atmosphere. The more CO2 and other...
  28. M

    Discovering Global Extrema for f(x,y)=sin(x) + cos(y) on [0,2π]x[0,2π]

    I'm supposed to find the absolute max and min for f(x,y)=sin(x) +cos(y) on the rectangle defined by 0<=x<=2*pi 0<=y<=2*pi. Can someone point me in the right direction. I got the critical points but i don't know what to do after that.
  29. SOS2008

    News What are the most important global issues today?

    I came across information, such as data published by The Pew Global Attitudes Project, however there didn't seem to be much statistics available (yet) on what is important to people around the world at this time. I thought it might be interesting to see what is important in different countries...
  30. Andre

    A New Global Theory of the Earth's Dynamics

    Crackpot or exiciting paradigm shift coming up? http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0502/0502135.pdf This guy has probably read my https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=2974 but there is much more. Discussion?
  31. T

    A new strategy to combat global warming in N. Europe.

    At the latitudes of the UK and Northern Europe we would expect a climate similar to that of Alaska or central Canada. Thanks entirely to the gulf stream, which bathes our shores with water carrying the heat equivalent of one million power stations, we currently have a much warmer climate. The...
  32. S

    Scale Invariance in Global Terrorism

    Clauset and Young, in their new paper http://www.arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0502/0502014.pdf , apply standard modern statistics to a database of terrorist strikes ordered by the number of people killed or injured. They find that extreme cases, such as 9/11, are not outliers, but find their...
  33. Andre

    How did the belief in Anthropogenic Global Warming become so deeply rooted?

    "Unexplaining" global warming Realclimate is an initiative of concerned climatologists who may seem to fear that the global warming message is waning. I tested the objectivity of the place by applying the next comment: Obviously, the comment was not honored. Anyway, to anybody...
  34. wolram

    David Bellamy refutes global warming

    Article in the Daily Express by David Bellamy OBE Feb 3 2005. I first heard about global warming in the eighties and right from the start i didn't believe in it. I teach botany. i have researched and taught plant anatomy, ecological physiology and the history of vegetation at universities...
  35. BobG

    News Will China's and India's Economic Growth Transform the Global Economy by 2020?

    This makes for some interesting reading. http://www.foia.cia.gov/2020/2020.pdf The rise in economic power of China and India is pretty much a given. One prediction is really striking. They predict the world's economy to grow by 80 percent over 2000 levels. At that rate, the worst that...
  36. S

    Nature's past experiment on global warming?

    Suppose I am a defense attorney--I am NOT--arguing for an underdeveloped old-growth tropical rain forest and a coral reef from tumultuous destruction by development. If I could only save ONE, it would be the coral reef. (My instructor said something along the lines of: "The destruction of our...
  37. M

    Is global warming causing a drop in temperature or rising temperatures?

    I read somewhere that one of the dangerous consequences of global warming is another ice age, kinda like what we saw in the movie "The day after tomorrow" . My friend was arguing with somebody about whether global warming will cause a drop in temperature or instead rising temperatures. When I...
  38. Loren Booda

    Global warming: what lies beneath the ice?

    The global warming bane for flooded civilization, geology and ecosystems at low altitudes can be a bonus for glaciologists "while they last" in higher latitudes. Would you like to predict what treasures the thawing climate will reveal in the world's remaining glaciers?
  39. T

    Global Positioning System and Relativity

    The Global Positioning System is nowadays considered as the prime example for the everyday importance of Relativity. It is claimed that without the relativistic corrections (which amount to 38 microseconds/day) the error in the determination of the position would accumulate quickly to values...
  40. loseyourname

    Heatwave study may fuel global warming lawsuits

    Is this fair? Full Story I know this forum is full of arguments over whether or not global warming is even taking place, but even if it can be proven that it is, and that it is largely caused by greenhouse gases, is it fair to sue a nation for that? What is the U.S. doing that 90% of...
  41. Andre

    What Is the Role of Threats in Building Social Groups?

    After writing this essay I decided to stop fighting the global warmings. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Recommendations For Global Warming Skeptics, an armchair analysis by Andre Apparently, one of the instincts for survival of a social species like Homo sapiens is social...
  42. Ivan Seeking

    Do satellite temperature data prove the existence of global warming?

    http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-11/uow-std112904.php
  43. Ivan Seeking

    Is Global Consciousness Connected? Investigating the GCP and its EGG Anomalies

    http://noosphere.princeton.edu/story.html http://www.boundaryinstitute.org/articles/EGG_Salad.pdf also see: http://www.boundaryinstitute.org/randomness.htm http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2320/is_3_65/ai_83262438
  44. hitssquad

    Global national-IQ map posted at Children of Millennium

    Children of Millennium has posted a rather impressive-looking global map of national IQs. Here is the map: http://www.childrenofmillennium.org/eugenics/pages/articles/IQmap.gif It is linked from this article on national IQs: http://www.childrenofmillennium.org/science.htm
  45. matthyaouw

    Is Global Warming a Real Threat? Views and Opinions on the Controversial Topic

    Since there seems to be a lot of controversy about this, I thought I'd do a little poll to collect the oppinions of you guys. Is global warming a real threat caused by us, a purely natural occurence or a cross between misleading figures and political spin? Views & opinions appreciated.
  46. B

    Global ethnicity numbers summary

    I have been trying to find a summary of global ethnicity and percent of... the origin of the bug in my hat is the current American political statements of 'minority' 'majority' and the misnomer seems obvious that northern European are a minority yet hold the power echelons and thereby decree...
  47. Math Is Hard

    Exploring the Impact of Volcanic Eruptions, CFCs on Global Warming

    Just a question I am a little stuck on. I missed last week's chem lecture: What effect would each of these changes have on global warming? a) volcanic eruptions b) CFCs in the troposphere c) CFCs in the stratosphere Here's what I think so far.. a) Volcanic eruption release large...
  48. N

    Is global warming a natural phenomenon?

    is global warming a natural phenomenon? I think it is . But we can enhanced it such as we produce tonnes of carbon dioxide every day, causing the greehouse effect strengthen and finally lead to global warming .
  49. Andre

    Global warming and the sciencific method

    As I see a new brave offensive against those devious satanic gasses and obviously, weather of mass destruction is about to destroy the world. So, perhaps it's time to review the science behind greenhouse warming. How about using the scientific method this time. It seems to be getting...
  50. marcus

    Global particles, local particles (Colosi, Rovelli)

    We already had some brief discussion (2 posts) of this paper in the "Intuitive...Program" thread that is serving as a catch-basket for Loop-and-allied Quantum Gravity links. It probably could use its own thread, to allow space for more discussion, if desired. After I posted this mention of the...
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