Fox News asks CRTC to reject ban calls

By Ahmad Hathout OTTAWA – The Fox News network is asking the CRTC to reject calls to ban it from Canadian television because doing so is “grossly disproportionate” and inconsistent with the Charter. The CRTC last month opened a Part 1 process to collect comments on an April request by Egale Canada, an advocacy organization for equality for gays and lesbians, to hold a public consultation to remove the channel to protect LGBTQ people. The offending segment aired on March 28 in which former Fox host Tucker Carlson stated Egale ignored the death of children in a Nashville school shooting...