South Asian organizations support call for public hearing into OMNI programming cuts

TORONTO – A number of multicultural organizations have added their voices to calls for a CRTC public hearing into cuts made by Rogers to OMNI TV's multicultural programming. More than 20 organizations, including the National Congress of Italian Canadians, the South Asian Women?s Centre (SAWC), the Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention (ASAAP), the South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario (SALCO) and the Council of Agencies Serving South Asians (CASSA), as well as two federal MPs are reported to support an application made by the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union requesting a public hearing into the cuts. "The multicultural protections...