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Ottawa to tell CRTC to scrap demand for foreign streamers to fund local news, niche broadcasters

Ottawa will direct the broadcasting regulator to scrap its requirements for foreign streaming platforms to fund local news and niche broadcasters in Canada, according to two senior government sources.

The federal government is planning a series of steps that would require the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, or CRTC, to roll back key decisions it has made implementing the controversial Online Streaming Act.

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