TORONTO — The CBC says it’s gradually restoring the local supper-hour TV news it recently shelved.Last week, the public broadcaster drew criticism when it announced it was temporarily scrapping its local TV newscasts, except for CBC North, in order to pool resources at CBC News Network amid the COVID-19 crisis.Prince Edward Island Premier Dennis King called for the move to be reversed to keep remote and vulnerable communities informed during the pandemic.The public broadcaster now says that as of Wednesday it will air a 30-minute local news segment during suppertime on CBC News Network (at 5 p.m.
ET and 6 p.m. ET).It also said in a statement that over the course of this week and next, the CBC “will make every effort to have all of the