The Canadian government has appointed “Hubert T. Lacroix, a Montreal corporate lawyer specializing in mergers and acquisitions who has a background acquiring radio stations and other media assets,” to run the CBC, replacing Robert Rabinovitch. “Some observers are surprised that neither Richard Stursberg, the head of CBC English television, nor his French counterpart, Sylvain Lafrance, got the job, and it’s unclear whether they were even in the running.”