NDP’s Mulcair opens ‘Leaders Series about the CBC’ Monday night

OTTAWA - Thomas Mulcair, Leader of the Official Opposition and Canada’s New Democrats, will kick off Friends of Canadian Broadcasting’s Leaders’ Series about the CBC on Monday.The Mulcair interviews, which will be conducted in French followed by English, will take place back-to-back starting at 7:30 PM EST on February 2 in Ottawa. Veteran journalist and former co-host of the CBC’s flagship public affairs program the fifth estate Francine Pelletier will conduct the interviews in French, while Don Newman, former host of Politics, CTV’s Washington correspondent, and CBC TV’s senior parliamentary correspondent, will conduct the interviews in English.The interviews will be...