Canada’s telecommunications regulator will announce this afternoon whether it will ban the state-controlled Russian television network RT from Canadian airwaves.
The multilingual 24-hour news channel launched in 2005, when it was known as Russia Today, and now appears in more than 100 countries, according to its website.
Funded by the Russian government, the channel has long been described by critics as a propaganda outlet for the Kremlin.
Speaking today in Toronto, Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said he commends YouTube for taking down the RT channel on its website and hopes the CRTC follows its example.
“We’ll see what the CRTC does but in
