1/18/2010
PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER, FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER LAWRENCE CANNON AND CITIZENSHIP, IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURALISM MINISTER JASON KENNEY JOIN CORUS’ OPERATION HAITI RADIOTHON
(Toronto, Canada) Along with The Right Honourable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs and The Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism join host Charles Adler for Corus Entertainment’s Operation Haiti radiothon today. Organized to raise funds for Canadian Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti, Operation Haiti will air live at 2 p.m. ET on Corus’ news-talk network and other news-talk affiliates across Canada.
Who: The Right Honourable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada
The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs
The Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism
What: Operation Haiti with Prime Minister Harper can be heard live on air or online on the following Corus news-talk stations: CKNW AM 980 (Vancouver), AM 770 (Calgary), 630 CHED (Edmonton), CJOB 68 (Winnipeg), AM640 Toronto Radio (Toronto), AM 900 CHML (Hamilton), AM980 (London) and AM 1220 (Cornwall).
Other non-Corus news-talk stations that will also carry Operation Haiti include: C-FAX 1070 (Victoria), Radio NL (Kamloops), AM 1150 (Kelowna) and AM920 CKNX (Wingham).
When: Monday, January 18, 2010, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. ET
Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon will be on air at 2:15 p.m. ET
Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney will be on air at 3 p.m. ET
Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be on air after 4 p.m. ET
For more information regarding Operation Haiti, click here to view the press release.
CKNW AM 980, AM 770, 630 CHED, CJOB 68, AM640 Toronto Radio, AM 900 CHML, AM980 and AM 1220 are owned by Corus Entertainment Inc., a Canadian-based media and entertainment company. Corus is a market leader in specialty television and radio with additional assets in pay television, advertising services, television broadcasting, children’s book publishing and children’s animation. The company’s multimedia entertainment brands include YTV, Treehouse, W Network, CosmoTV, VIVA, Movie Central, HBO Canada, Nelvana, Kids Can Press and radio stations including CKNW, CKOI and Q107. Corus creates engaging branded entertainment experiences for its audiences across multiple platforms. A publicly traded company, Corus is listed on the Toronto (CJR.B) and New York (CJR) exchanges. Experience Corus on the web at www.corusent.com.
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For further information, please contact:
Magda Krpan
Communications Manager, Radio
(416) 530-5146
Lorraine Zarb
Project Manager, Communications
(416) 583-2858
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