Canada’s public broadcaster, CBC/Radio-Canada announced massive layoffs today across the organization that includes 600 jobs amounting to 10 per cent of its workforce. READ MORE: Massive layoffs expected to be announced by CBC/Radio-Canada today, another major blow to Canada’s media sectorOf the 600 eliminated jobs, 250 will be from the English-speaking CBC sector and 250 will be eliminated from the French-speaking Radio-Canada. “Since the beginning of our government in 2015, we’ve been there to support the public broadcaster. “This time again, we will work with the public broadcaster because we believe in the public broadcaster in making sure the service is available to all Canadians in all regions,” she said. Whatever your opinion on our public broadcaster, fewer working journalists is always bad for democracy.

Source: CBC News December 04, 2023 23:32 UTC