Altering the Acts: BTLR expert panel catches suggestions (some tenable, some not so much) on the CBC and local news

TORONTO – The CBC should be forced to track how it creates awareness of Canadian authors and their works, the federal panel looking at Canada's communications legislation has been told by a prominent publisher."What CBC says it does and its mandate and its commitments to Canadian content are very strong and positive,” James Lorimer, head of his namesake publishing company, told the Broadcast and Telecom Legislative Review (BTLR) panel Saturday at the annual DM@X conference at the University of Toronto,But "follow though" in terms in measuring whether it meets targets is missing, he said."The writing and publishing of books is...