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CRTC considers future of Aboriginal radio in Ont., Alta. and B.C.

Media | 03/30/2017 9:03 pm EDT

A typically competitive process, disseminating new applications for radio licences seemed to take on a more culturally significant connotation for the CRTC as it navigated a three-day public hearing for urban Aboriginal radio stations in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. At the end of the three-day public hearing this week, Jean-Pierre Blais said, according to a transcript, that after spending a few years as chairman of the CRTC, “you’d think it would get easier. And it’s...