Leonard Asper is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 businessperson

Businessperson

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 and lawyer

Lawyer

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. He is a graduate of Brandeis University

Brandeis University

Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...

 and the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

 Law School

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Leonard Asper is the son of the late Izzy Asper

Izzy Asper

Israel Harold "Izzy" Asper, , Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate, was the founder of the now defunct CanWest Global Communications Corp and father to its former CEO and President Leonard Asper, former director and corporate secretary Gail Asper, as well as Executive Vice President David Asper...

, founder of CanWest Global. He is now a CEO of The Fight Network

The Fight Network

Fight Network is a Canadian English language Category B specialty channel devoted to airing programming related to wrestling, boxing, mixed martial arts, and other combatant styles...

 and was the President

President

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 and Chief Executive Officer

Chief executive officer

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 of the Canadian media

Mass media

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 company, CanWest Global Communications Corp.

He has often been rumoured as a potential partner in an ownership group that would bring the NHL back to Winnipeg.

His opinion on the Israel/Palestine conflict was transmitted to the public when he ordered the production, and aired twice at primetime, the pro Israel documentary Confrontation at Concordia. This Documentary was responded to by the Documentary Discordia, which offers an opposing view of the events.

Leonard Asper stepped down as Canwest CEO on March 3, 2010, amid the general financial collapse and restructuring of the Canwest corporate group.

On December 8, 2010, Asper has acquired a “significant ownership stake” in The Fight Network.