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Culture off parties’ radar

TORONTO – The Canadian Media Guild said Monday it’s worried that culture, and the CBC specifically, is so low on the priority lists of the federal parties. Only the Conservative and Green parties mention the CBC in their platforms, despite the fact that the public broadcaster faces a license renewal before the end of 2006. “But there are more questions about the vague position of the front-running Conservatives than answers,” says the Guild release, ominously. "I recognize that this election campaign has been fought on a handful of core issues. But it is troubling that the future of Canada's largest...