by Brian Gibson | Sep 22, 2019 | Local 2000 News, Local News
It was announced in a letter to readers on September 18, 2019 that the Prince George Citizen would cease as a daily paid subscription newspaper and change to a free weekly newspaper while still providing an online edition of the paper. The Company gave the Union...
by Gary | Sep 2, 2010 | CanWest, Industry News |
Today letters went out to employees at the Victoria Times Colonist, Vancouver Sun and The Province announcing buyouts. Over the past week Postmedia has been cutting jobs at its newspapers across Canada. Positions have been chopped at the Calgary Herald and Edmonton...
by Gary | Jun 11, 2010 | CanWest, Industry News |
Here’s wishing at least one business reporter would ask some questions about the deal to buy Canwest newspapers, rather than simply repeating what’s in company press releases. On Wednesday, less than 24 hours before creditors were supposed to get together to approve a...
by Gary | May 26, 2010 | CanWest, Industry News |
The sale of Canwest’s newspapers, approved in principle last week by a bankruptcy judge in Toronto, to an ad hoc committee of bondholders, mostly based in the USA, does little to reassure 1,700 members of Canada’s largest media union who work for the...
by Gary | Mar 30, 2010 | CanWest, Industry News |
Screw the workers and look after ourselves! This seems to be the motto that Canwest senior managers live by, as judged by their actions in the current Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) proceedings. Not content with the original $3.4 million worth of...
by Gary | Mar 12, 2010 | CanWest, Industry News |
So now that we have some idea of who is interested in buying Canwest’s newspapers which one of the bidders should we, the employees, be cheering for? According to news reports “about” six companies or consortiums have submitted expressions of interest in the first...
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