The fact that Canada’s broadcast regulator is holding public consultations on whether to ban Fox News, after receiving a complaint from an LGBTQ rights advocacy organization, is highly unusual, given that only one channel has been removed in recent years from the list of approved foreign broadcasters on Canadian cable television.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) removed Russia Today (RT) from Canadian cable packages in early 2022 shortly after the government issued an order-in-council asking the regulator to do so following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The CRTC removed both RT and RT France—the latter a French-language version of the Russian state-sponsored broadcaster—from its “list of non-Canadian programming services and stations authorized for distribution” in March 2022….