Aboriginal Voices Radio to fall silent by July 25 – Ottawa Citizen

July 21, 2015

Aboriginal Voices Radio, a not-for-profit native radio network operating in five major Canadian cities since 2002, is expected to fall silent by this Saturday.

Broadcast regulators ordered the network to cease all operations in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa — where it hasn’t been broadcasting for months — by the evening of July 25, leaving behind around 600,000 listeners in Toronto alone, according to the network’s spokesman Lewis Cardinal.

On June 25, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission revoked the broadcasting licences of Aboriginal Voices Radio Inc., also known as CKAV-FM, and gave the station exactly a month to come off the air.

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