Corus Entertainment cut nearly 80 jobs, mostly in traditional TV production, at Global News newsrooms across Canada as part of a restructuring geared toward boosting online coverage. Employees who lost their jobs and qualify will be given the opportunity to apply for the new positions, the company said. Unifor, a union representing some Global employees, said 69 of its members who worked as reporters, anchors, camera operators, control room staff, make-up artists and other production crew lost their jobs. In Halifax, the studio will no longer produce the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick evening news, said David MacPherson, president of the Maritimes unit of Unifor local M1, which represents workers at global. It called on Canada’s broadcast regulator to make strong local coverage a binding condition of having a license.

Source: National Post February 15, 2018 21:00 UTC