How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending June 4, 2009.

National News

• Business prof Aidan Vining was quoted in a Canwest News Service story saying the federal finance department has flagged several prominent Crown corporations as entities that could (at least in theory) be sold as part of the government’s asset review—including the CBC and VIA Rail.
  “They’re not the classic privatization candidates, where you sell and walk away—unless, of course, you’re prepared to fully withdraw from the public purpose. . . It’s hard to believe that some of these sales would go forward in a minority Parliament.”
  We saw the story in and on 14 media outlets across Canada.