Irving vs. Irving: Canada's Feuding Billionaires And The Stories They Won't Tell
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They are the Irvings. And they have always placed a premium on discretion and family unity. They built their empire âwhich includes Canadaâs largest refinery, soon to be linked by pipeline to Albertaâs oil fieldsâby remaining private. Irving vs Irving tells the story of how these ambitious, often ruthless entrepreneurs came to dominate the economic and political affairs of Atlantic Canada, and how they learned to love the property that perplexed them most: their media monopoly.
The Irvingsâ control of all of New Brunswickâs daily newspapers often allowed the familyâs business pursuits to escape journalistic scrutiny. Readers frequently wondered what wasnât in the newspaper, such as the Irvingâs lobbying for their logging interests and the sinking of their tanker loaded with PCBs.
In Irving vs Irving, veteran reporter Jacques Poitras uses the empireâs media holdings to examine previously untold episodes of this family epic from patriarch K.C. Irvingâs manipulation of his motherâs affections to a Shakespearean confrontation between generations.
