I don’t expect the average Canadian to give a shit over billionaire’s VS millionaires and business fights, but if you’re not paying attention to this Rogers Media disaster, you’re missing a GREAT fucking story.
Source: Rogers Communications Inc.’s chief financial officer Tony Staffieri accidentally phoned the telecom’s CEO Joe Natale while he was discussing plans to unseat Mr. Natale and other executives, with the support of company chair Edward Rogers, according to sources.
Mr. Staffieri was speaking with former long-time Rogers chief legal officer David Miller about the plan when he pocket-dialed Mr. Natale, according to two sources familiar with the fallout from the matter. The Globe is not identifying the individuals because they are not authorized to speak publicly about it.
After learning of the plan, which included removing nine other senior executives, Mr. Natale informed an independent director, triggering an emergency weekend board meeting. The majority of the board and Rogers family backed Mr. Natale and his management team. Mr. Staffieri exited the company three days later.
Neither Mr. Staffieri nor Mr. Miller could immediately be reached for comment. Mr. Natale declined to comment.
Are you getting this?? Here’s some light background info:
Edward Rogers is the son of Ted Rogers, founder of telecom giant Rogers Communications.
Joe Natale is the former CEO of Telus, current CEO of Rogers Communications.
Edward WAS the Chairman of the board at Rogers.
Edward HATES Joe and was scheming to have Joe removed as CEO.
Joe found out about it when Rogers CFO Tony Staffieri butt-dialed Joe and shit-talked Joe Natale with Edward Rogers and it sounds like Joe heard all of it (high school shit). He then took it to the board of directors at Rogers and Edward was dumped as the chairman of the board of his own company.
All because of a pocket dial.
The head of Canada’s most powerful telco family just destroyed life as he knows it, because of a pocket dial, and the whole thing has gone nuclear.
Embarrassed, Edward Rogers, son of Ted, is now moving to fire the ENTIRE board of directors even after his sister, Martha Rogers, begged him to just take the L and fuck off.
He won’t so Martha is going scorched earth, outing everyone in the Rogers ‘Cabal’ and according to my source, “a bomb is going off at Rogers tomorrow”.
Since Ed & his old boys club Trump cabal can leak countless articles with impunity, starting tmw (TBD) I’ll tweet every hr on the hr what’s actually happening. 24,000 employees>1.📌 Ed Rogers, Alan Horn, Phil Lind, David Robinson, Toby Hull & John Tory − we’re looking at you.
— Martha Rogers (@MarthaLRogers) October 23, 2021
(“NAVIGATOR” is a crisis management company that sewers people’s reputations on behalf of rich people and big corps. Corus hired Jamie Watt and Navigator to paint me as homophobic so Corus could fire me with cause. He’s a piece of shit. Think National Enquirer meets private enterprise. Jamie Watt has been hired by Edward Rogers to discredit his own family during this process. Because he lost. Nice, huh?)
Is this the end of Rogers as we know it?
It sure is. What will it look like at this time next week? Who fucking cares. The Schadenfreude of a cell phone magnate and the protection of ‘the old boys’ cabal at Rogers being dismantled by a pocket dial is EXACTLY what we need right now. A fight-to-the-reputational-death of Canada’s elite.
This week there will be a white-collar blood bath at Rogers Media and if you want the dirt, follow Martha Rogers. She’s a fucking GEM.
FIGHT!
FIGHT!
FIGHT!
Cheers!
DB
