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Shaw remembers Keating

VANCOUVER – Shaw Communications executive chairman JR Shaw had to fight his emotions during a tribute to his friend Charlie Keating at this morning’s annual general meeting at the new waterfront Shaw Tower in Vancouver. Keating, a Shaw board member since 1985 and founder of Access Cable of Dartmouth, N.S., died of cancer in the fall. The Shaw and Keating families are very close and Keating’s son Greg attended the meeting today. Access sold to Shaw in 1999.“Most of us in this room knew him and most of us has the privilege of calling him a friend,” said Mr. Shaw...