6:55 a.m.: RT in Ottawa’s sights
Will RT be censored by Ottawa? The Canadian government expressed on Saturday its “concerns” about the broadcasting on its territory of this channel, accused by its detractors of being a spokesperson for the Kremlin.
“I share the concerns of many Canadians about the presence of Russia Today in our broadcasting system,” tweeted Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez. This close friend of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau assured: “We are exploring all options”.
Although “RT is currently on the list of approved non-Canadian services”, its broadcasting license is “a privilege (can) be withdrawn”, the newspaper warned on Friday. The duty the Canadian audiovisual policeman, the CRTC.
More and more countries have recently unplugged RT. Friday, it is the main provider of access to television in Finland which stopped the broadcast. London, for its part, asked Wednesday for a review by the regulator Ofcom of the license granted to RT. And, at the beginning of February, Germany had banned the channel on its territory, pushing Russia to close the office of German radio and television Deutsche Welle in Moscow.