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CBC hires environmental sustainability lead

TORONTO — CBC announced today it has hired Leaticia Kaggwa (above) for a newly created role as environmental sustainability lead. This new position was created to support CBC’s new carbon footprint requirement announced in November 2021 (which Cartt.ca wrote about here). Kaggwa will report to Lisa Clarkson, executive director of business and rights and content optimization at CBC. “We are putting environmentally sustainable thinking into everything we do, and creating this new role is part of that commitment,” Clarkson said, in a press release announcing Kaggwa’s appointment. “Leaticia brings a unique combination of education in sustainability management, industry knowledge and...