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Toronto Star’s foreign affairs reporter Rick Westhead is leaving the newspaper to join TSN as the network’s senior correspondent. 

Cochran, CBC’s senior managing director for Atlantic Canada, is taking on a new role, overseeing the implementation the of public broadcaster’s Strategy 2020 for news operations. 

Rempel, currently the Toronto Star’s tech editor, is joining Global News in August as its social media strategist.

Lewis, currently an energy reporter for the Financial Post in Calgary, will join The Globe and Mail covering the same beat. 

Each of the bursary winners will receive up to $2,500 to attend a hazardous environment training course in the U.S. or Britain.

Keenan, most recently the senior editor of The Grid until it shut down, is joining the Toronto Star as a city columnist. 

Foreign Affairs writer Rick Westhead is leaving the Toronto Star. 

CBC Ottawa journalist Rice won the Debwewin Citation for excellence in First Nation Storytelling given out by the Anishinabek Nation, which is based in North Bay, Ont. 

From cuts at the CBC to an averted strike at The Globe and Mail and a Canadian journalist imprisoned in Egypt for seven years, a lot happened while J-Source was on summer…

CBC world affairs correspondent Rick MacInnes-Rae is retiring after 37 years with the public broadcaster.