Federal Court of Appeal Overturns CRTC Ruling Against CBC for Broadcast of ‘N-Word’

Federal Court of Appeal Overturns CRTC Ruling Against CBC for Broadcast of ‘N-Word’
The CBC News logo is projected onto a screen during the CBC's annual upfront presentation at The Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto on May 29, 2019. Tijana Martin/The Canadian Press
|Updated:
0:00

The Federal Court of Appeal has overturned a previous decision made by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) that penalized CBC Radio over a program that used the “N-word,” a racial slur.

The decision issued by the Federal Court of Appeal on June 22 found that the broadcast regulator made errors in its ruling against SRC, the French-language segment of CBC/Radio-Canada.
Related Topics