by Garth Oswald | Feb 12, 2019 | Industry News |
Sting is bringing his musical about labour strife to Oshawa, Ont., in a show of support for those affected by the planned shutdown of the city’s General Motors plant. The singer and the Toronto cast of The Last Ship, currently playing at Mirvish’s Princess...
by Brian Gibson | Feb 5, 2019 | Industry News |
Fighting words: Feds rip news giant’s secrecy request; court reseals documents. Federal regulators and a Canadian newspaper giant engaged in a war of words over whether to keep words secret. Torstar, whose lawyers usually argue for more information access, wants words...
by Garth Oswald | Feb 1, 2019 | Industry News |
Tell GM and your local dealerships that you won’t buy Mexican-made GM vehicles At a time of record profits, General Motors plans to close its top-quality Oshawa plant while the company continues to expand production in Mexico. The closure of the Oshawa Assembly...
by Garth Oswald | Jan 29, 2019 | Industry News |
Jeffrey Miller might be the ideal news consumer: He’s well-informed, thoughtful and understands the role good journalism plays in American democracy. And he has a question, one that might seem small, personal and inconsequential but that goes to the heart of a vexing...
by Brian Gibson | Sep 27, 2018 | Industry News |
“What we are seeing now is that revenues are plunging, acceleration of this downward spiral is getting faster and faster and news coverage more and more sparse. And that’s a recipe for catastrophe.” A new report from Canada’s Public Policy Forum has measured the speed...
by Brian Gibson | Sep 27, 2018 | Industry News |
Sara Mojtehedzadeh may very well be Canada’s only full-time labour reporter. This past fall, as the Toronto Star’s ‘work and wealth’ reporter, Mojtehedzadeh went undercover for a month at Fiera Foods—a factory in Toronto where a temp agency worker was recently killed....
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