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Feb 24, 2009
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The Hamilton Spectator, the Guelph Mercury and The Record in Waterloo have all announced a series of staff layoffs. A total of 64 jobs are...
Feb 18, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
Montreal-based Transcontinental Inc. has announced major cost-cutting
initiatives that include the elimination of 1500 jobs in Canada and the
United States. Transcon's publications include...
Feb 10, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
[NOTE: This post has been updated] The union representing laid-off journalists at Torstar-owned Metro has
filed five grievances related to interns that were brought in just days
before four unionized writers and two managers were terminated....
Feb 05, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
A reorganization effort at French-language news radio station Info 690 will result in 12 layoffs...
Feb 04, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
Thirty Globe and Mail
employees have been laid off, after the company's effort to entice
workers to take voluntary buyouts didn't produce the staff cuts
necessary to combat revenue declines. According to...
Feb 04, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
As advertising revenues decline and the economy continues to suffer, the Halifax Chronicle-Herald is the latest newspaper to cut staff. The company has announced...
Jan 29, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
Reader's Digest Association, which includes the Canadian arm, announced
it is cutting eight per cent of its staff and forcing remaining staff
to take mandatory, unpaid vacation days, according to...
Jan 29, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
After editorial and reader sales and service staff at the Montreal
Gazette rejected the latest contract offer (65% of advertising staff
voted to accept the offer) from owners on Jan. 25, the two sides met
again this week to hash out a solution. Gazette publisher and general manager Alan Allnut sent a memo...
Jan 28, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
In an memo emailed to all staff, Canwest executives Dennis Skulsky and
Doug Lamb announced a series of cost-cutting measures the company is
instituting in order to further combat economic pressures. The memo...
Jan 26, 2009
- Posted by Regan
Ray
Editorial employees at the Montreal Gazette voted down the latest contract offer from the newspaper's owners, Canwest Global Communications Corp. Eighty per cent of editorial staffers...
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