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Former CBC host Jo-Ann Roberts Seeks Federal Green Party Nomination In Victoria

The Canadian Press, 24 Jan, 2015 04:07 PM
    VICTORIA — A former CBC radio host hopes to take her fight for the embattled public broadcaster all the way to Parliament Hill.
     
    Jo-Ann Roberts announced Saturday she is seeking the Green Party's nomination in Victoria for this year's federal election.
     
    Roberts resigned from the CBC in December after a decade hosting Radio One's Victoria-based "All Points West."
     
    Before moving to British Columbia she spent 10 years hosting CBC Radio's morning show in Moncton, N.B.
     
    She says she wants to see a $115-million federal funding cut to the CBC restored, as well as having a parliamentary committee to examine the 
     
    public broadcaster's mandate.
     
    Roberts says environmental issues will be also be a major focus of her campaign should she win the nomination.

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