ANALYSIS: CRTC opts to trust CBC with latest licence renewal

By Steve Faguy MONTREAL — The first paragraph of the CRTC’s decision to renew CBC/Radio-Canada’s TV and radio licenses was no surprise. The Commission is never going to deny a license to the national public broadcaster. But many of the changes to its conditions of licence — and in particular the conditions it chose not to impose any more — are a major step toward implementing the new philosophies of the Ian Scott-led Commission. And that step does not come without some resistance — including from within the Commission. Four paragraphs into the introduction of its mammoth, 68,000-word renewal decision...