Global Sunday is the name of a Canadian

Canada

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 television news series, which aired Sunday evenings on the Global Television Network

Global Television Network

Global Television Network is an English language privately owned television network in Canada, owned by Calgary-based Shaw Communications, as part of its Shaw Media division...

. The program was launched in September, 2001, with Charles Adler

Charles Adler (broadcaster)

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 as host. Run separately from the rest of Global's news division, the program often reflected the political views of Global's founder, Israel Asper and the Asper family. The program ran a mix of features reporting and interviews, effectively acting as a cross between a newsmagazine

Newsmagazine

A news magazine is a typed, printed, and published piece of paper, magazine or a radio or television program, usually weekly, featuring articles or segments on current events...

 and an American-style Sunday talk show.

Hosts and features

As a right-wing voice in Canadian television, the show developed a loyal audience, and was broadcast weekly from studios in Calgary

Calgary

Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

, the cultural hotbed of Canadian conservatism. Not wishing to continue his schedule of weekly flights to Calgary, Adler resigned after a year.

In early 2003, Global named a permanent host in Danielle Smith

Danielle Smith

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, an editorial writer for the Calgary Herald

Calgary Herald

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.

Cancellation

With the launch of Global National

Global National

Global National is the national newscast of Canada's Global Television Network. Dawna Friesen anchors the program's weekday edition from the Global BC studios; Robin Gill currently anchors the weekend edition...

's weekend edition in February 2005, the program lost its coveted early-evening timeslot. Ratings and resources both dwindled, and the decision was made in August 2005 to cancel Global Sunday. The network replaced it with Global Currents

Global Currents

Global Currents is a Canadian news television series, which airs weekly on Global Television Network. Hosted by Kevin Newman, the series airs one documentary film each week....

, which airs documentary reports, and merged some other features, including The Final Round, into the Sunday edition of Global National.