Charles Dalfen will take over as chair of the CRTC on Jan. 1. The Toronto lawyer, a senior partner at the Torys law firm, was vice-chair of the commission from 1976 to 1980. He succeeds Françoise Bertrand who left last February. Dalfen tied for third place in a Decima Publishing online survey on who should be the new chair, trailing interim chair David Colville and CBC-TV’s Mary Walsh (NL, Mar. 12/01).

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