There are less than two weeks until the biggest cable merger in Canadian history -- the tie-up between Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. -- is supposed to be nailed down.
It should be a crowning moment for Edward Rogers, the chairman of Rogers’ board, and his hand-picked CEO, Tony Staffieri. Instead, the deal looks shaky, customers are livid, politicians annoyed, regulators suspicious, and Staffieri finds himself on a whirlwind apology tour, frantically trying to appease everyone.
