Gov’t denies aboriginal radio decision appeal

Media | 09/25/2017 3:33 pm EDT

The federal government has denied a petition to the governor-in-council to overturn a June licence decision by the CRTC regarding Indigenous radio stations. In late June, Wawatay Native Communications Society asked Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly to overturn a decision that didn’t award it radio licences it was seeking in Ottawa and Toronto. That appeal was followed by a second petition by VMS Media Group Ltd., which had been denied licences in Calgary and Edmonton, Alta. In a Sept. 12 decision, the government declined to send those decisions back to the regulator, noting...

Second petition to reverse aboriginal radio decision filed by VMS

Media | 08/09/2017 1:07 pm EDT

VMS Media Group Ltd. has filed the second petition to cabinet asking the government to overturn the CRTC’s decision on licences for operating urban aboriginal radio stations, following a July appeal by an Ontario-based group. In the petition to governor-in-council dated July 28, VMS — which applied for two licences in Calgary and Edmonton, Alta. — argued that not only does the decision to award the licences to the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA) fail to...