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Shaw rejects CTF arguments

CALGARY - Shaw Communications has again rejected the arguments made by those who support the Canadian Television Fund and its aims. Today the company "categorically rejected" a suggestion made by former Shaw executive Richard Stursberg, who is now CBC TV's executive vice-president, that withholding payments to the fund will "unravel" the Canadian broadcasting system. "It is unconstructive and misleading. The CBC is the biggest recipient of CTF monies. Canadians deserve a fair and independent accounting of how billions of dollars that they paid out in taxes and fees were spent by the CTF and the CBC," said Jim Shaw, CEO...