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Joly to announce new CBC CEO?


OTTAWA – At 9:15 Tuesday morning, Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly will “make an important announcement about the future leadership of CBC/Radio-Canada.”As readers will be aware, current president and CEO Hubert Lacroix’s contract expired at the end of 2017. However, he agreed to stay on as the federal government dithered on his replacement – saying in January that it wanted more time to look at candidates living abroad to replace Lacroix.After doing interviews, the feds did have a short list of qualified candidates in the fall of 2017 (we heard some names which we won’t repeat here), but delayed on making...