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Cartt.ca as Parliamentary resource: CTF to be subject of hearings

OTTAWA – NDP Heritage critic Charlie Angus read from Cartt.ca today in the House of Commons while calling for hearings into the future of the Canadian Television Fund. The emergency hearings will happen soon after a motion to launch them passed the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage today. During Question Period this afternoon, Angus suggested that Heritage Minister Bev Oda was colluding with the cable industry to kill the fund after reading our Analysis piece on the CTF this morning which keyed off an interview with Shaw Communications senior vice-president Ken Stein, who described the meeting to Cartt.ca.Oda met with...