layoffs

_ "That daily experience of seeing your local places, names and events creates a kind of resonance and connection and investment with where you live. Canadians pay a lot of lip service to the importance of telling Canadian stories. We are so used to seeing American references that just watching a movie, for example, set in a Canadian place will “charge us up” with local feeling. ...

The Stittsville News is one of eight local community papers that will be closed after a swap between Postmedia and Torstar. (File photo) Nine Ottawa-area newspapers will be shuttered after a trade between Canada’s two largest newspaper chains. The swap, announced Monday, saw Postmedia Network Canada Corp. ...

[caption id=“attachment_67565” align=“aligncenter” width=“720”] Eight staffers at Rogers TV in Ottawa were casualties in a rash of layoffs across the network in Ontario. (File)[/caption] Rogers TV in Ottawa will stay on the air, but eight full time employees have lost their jobs as part of a round of layoffs across the network’s Ontario stations. ...

_ ** Editor’s note: A wave of job cuts hit city hall Wednesday. A total of 75 managers and 102 unionized employees were given pink slips. City Manager Steve Kanellakos says the cuts will save $14 million and increase efficiency by eliminating extra levels of management. ...