More on Mike Bullard Cancellation
From a March 12, 2004 CBC article:

Mike Bullard, Canada's only network late-night talk show host, is out of a job.

That's because the Global Television Network announced Friday it is cancelling The Mike Bullard Show, effective immediately....

On Global, Bullard averaged 72,000 viewers per night. When he left CTV, where he had been host of Open Mike for six years, he was drawing about 129,000 viewers.

Hamilton was unable to explain why Bullard's audience didn't follow him to the new network. "I'm a little unsure of the reason why it didn't catch on," he said, adding that Global did not see any reason to believe the numbers would improve.

Industry observers noted that the avuncular comedian had his work cut out for him. Not only was he up against David Letterman and Jay Leno, but when he left CTV his former bosses also replaced him an American import, Jon Stewart's highly popular faux newscast, The Daily Show....

When he left CTV, Bullard was very vocal about his dissatisfaction with the network. In Davidson's view, burning his bridges in such a public way did not help win him any new fans....

Davidson believes Bullard may want to look into radio as a possible future home for his talents, or a group of television stations like the CHUM family. He doesn't see Bullard getting another chance at a network gig.

"Unless he has a friend at CBC, I have a hard time picturing that."