courtesy THE CANADIAN PRESS
JANUARY 24, 2015 03:55 PM.
- Former CBC host Jo-Ann Roberts poses with Green Party party leader Elizabeth May in Victoria on Saturday Jan. 24, 2014. Roberts announced Saturday she is seeking the Green Party’s nomination in Victoria for this year’s federal election. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ HO-Jo-Ann Roberts campaign
.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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