Former CEO Townsend files suit against CCSA

SAINT JOHN, N.B. – Alyson Townsend, the former chief executive officer of the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance, has filed a lawsuit against the organization for which she worked for 23 years, claiming wrongful dismissal.The CCSA (a national alliance of independent network owner-operators) and Townsend parted ways last month, as we reported here. She had been CEO since 2001.In her statement of claim filed last week with the Court of Queen’s Bench of New Brunswick, which has not been proven in court and to which the CCSA has not yet responded, Townsend says the CCSA’s board of directors now appeared to...