9(1)(h): Volpe appeals cabinet decision on OMNI licence

By Denis Carmel

OTTAWA – If, like Cartt.ca, you believed that the OMNI file was closed, sealed, over and done with, think again.On September 16, Joe Volpe, publisher of the Corriere Canadese and one of the applicants for a national, multilingual multi-ethnic discretionary service, CorrCan Media Group, filed a motion in the Federal Court for a judicial review of the pronouncement by the Governor General in Council (Cabinet), issued on August 17, where the government declined to void or return CRTC Decisions 2019-172 and 2019-173 granting Rogers Media a must-carry license for its OMNI branded multicultural channels.The relief sought is to quash the...