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Movie closed captioning tussle in Montreal

Talk radio station CJAD, Montreal, Quebec, reported on Sept. 24, on a new twist in a continuing story about Canadian movie theaters providing access to captioned films. Jeffrey Liebman, a deaf Montrealer, is claiming he was discriminated against by Cineplex, which refused access to English captions because the French captions for the same movie weren’t available. A representative who spoke to the Office de la Langue Francaise said  that there’s no such stipulation in the law.

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