Union wants broader CRTC powers, BGM sale blocked

OTTAWA – In what's got to be a first, a Canadian group is actually calling for a bigger CRTC. The 150,000-member Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada said Wednesday that the CRTC "needs a wider scope and greater resources in order to properly protect the public interest in the rapidly changing world of media and information technology." The union proposed its new CRTC mandate at the same time as it filed its opposition to by Bell Canada Enterprises plan to cede control of Bell Globemedia (home of CTV and the Globe and Mail, among other assets) to the Ontario...