Rogers crisis: Consumer groups want to delay merger hearing

OTTAWA - With control of Rogers Communications now before a B.C. judge, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and National Pensioners Federation has asked the CRTC to hold off on the public hearing into the purchase of Shaw Communications by Rogers Communications. “The press has reported on a series of events unfolding at Rogers that call into question the legal status of the existing board of directors, and whether the current officers of the company have the confidence of the board of directors or whether they will even remain as officers of the company in the near future,” reads the procedural...