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Shaw names former BlackBerry VP head of regulatory and government relations

OTTAWA – Shaw Communications last month hired Morgan Elliott (right) as its new senior vice-president of regulatory and government relations.That role at the company has been vacant since Jean Brazeau’s departure in the fall of 2013 and has been filled in the interim by company president Peter Bissonnette. However, Bissonnette is retiring from Shaw at the end of this year.While the company has yet made no official press announcment, according to his Linked In profile, Elliott was VP government relations for BlackBerry from February 2009 until June of this year and has also served on the board of directors of...