Union endorses Senate report on news media

OTTAWA – A top media union is endorsing the recommendations in yesterday’s Senate report on news media, particularly those calling for tighter controls on concentration of ownership, and moves to shore up the CBC. The Communications, Energy, and Paperworkers Union of Canada is urging the federal government to act on the recommendations immediately. The report said that media concentration of ownership has reached “very high levels.” CEP goes farther, saying that in the lower B.C. mainland, New Brunswick, and parts of Quebec and Newfoundland, concentration has reached “dangerous” levels. “The notion put forward by the Senate report released yesterday of...