Global News

On a Tuesday night in October 2026, Global News at 6 in Toronto and Montreal went to air as it has for years, while the website published a story about a Canadian-led defence bank that the UK had just declined to join. That split identity, nightly newscasts plus a constantly updating digital desk, is the whole point of the brand. Global News is the news and current-affairs division of the Global Television Network, owned by Corus Entertainment, and it has been in the business since 1994.

The operation is built on two layers. One is local: newscasts in markets including Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary and communities across British Columbia, staffed by newsrooms that know their cities. The other is national and international, anchored by Global National and a foreign desk that covers U.S. politics, European elections and the war in Ukraine. The website at globalnews.ca stitches both together, and the YouTube channel carries national and international video for viewers who never turn on a TV.

Headquarters sit in Burnaby, British Columbia, a detail that shapes the brand's sensibility: a Canadian broadcaster with a strong western base competing head-on with CBC News and CTV News. Recent coverage runs from an AFib surgical procedure developed in Canada to Gen Z's retreat from dance clubs, from BC premier-designate Lorne Doerkson's first remarks to Serbia's Vucic conceding defeat. The range is deliberate. Global News positions itself as a general-interest news source for a country that reads, watches and scrolls.

Corus, spun off from Shaw Communications in 1999, is the corporate parent and the reporting entity for financial purposes. Global News does not publish standalone revenue or valuation figures, so it is best understood as a strategic asset inside Corus's portfolio rather than a separate business. The division's reputation rests on local trust and national reach, and in a crowded field where ratings and digital traffic matter as much as journalistic impact, those two things are the product. [edit]