In Canada, family feud engulfs Rogers Communications empire with billions on the line

At situation is whether or not Edward Rogers, son of the agency’s late founder, Ted Rogers, can change a number of of the board’s administrators together with his personal picks by written decision and and not using a shareholder assembly. Different board members — together with his mom, Loretta Rogers, and sisters Martha Rogers and Melinda Rogers-Hixon — say the transfer breaches the agency’s guidelines and Ted’s needs. Two squabbling factions of administrators now declare to symbolize the $24 billion firm, which is searching for the takeover of rival Shaw Communications.