Canadian Heritage minister must intervene in CRTC's TQS decision: CEP

OTTAWA – The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) is calling on the Canadian Heritage minister to force the CRTC to re-examine its decision to allow TQS to cut its local news. The decision illustrates the regulator is not serving the public interest and something must be done, the media union said in a statement. The CEP is asking the Canadian Heritage minister to send the decision back to the CRTC for reconsideration. “Having laid off more than half the staff of the TQS network in April, the network’s new owners have told the CRTC they will allocate...