Because I’m a loser, I read Indigo’s Q3 earnings and got all excited about their outstanding gift card balance that was somewhere around $63-million. Turns out if you add up all the different categories accountants use, it’s actually closer to $77-million on the balance sheet. And because I’m an even bigger loser, I imported some of the balance […]
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As you know, the Star recently acknowledged to readers that parts of an article by one of our reporters contained unattributed material reported in the Globe and Mail. Later in the same week, we learned that Chris Spence had plagiarized portions of an op-ed piece in the Star. This note is to bring you up
So you want to cancel your cable, but aren’t sure how much bandwidth you’d need for an alternate service? This chart from the CRTC is helpful.
Jan. 10, 2013 Down to business Tentative agreement on disputes process clears decks for main issues First day of full talks leaves focus on core concerns After two days of preliminary meetings earlier this week, including a detailed financial briefing from the publisher and other senior Toronto Star executives, your bargaining committee has moved into formal negotiations on a new contract
Postmedia is trying to make some changes to its pension plan. I wrote about it a while ago. Here’s what the union has to say. Post Media by on Scribd
Esther Enkin has been one of the cornerstones of CBC News for nearly 25 years. As you heard earlier today, Esther has been appointed Ombudsman for English services. It is a role that is the perfect opportunity for her, allowing her to maximize her journalistic acumen, her years of experience, and her calm resolve. We,
Freelancers owed money by OpenFile fired off an open letter to site founder Wilf Dinnick Monday in response to an interview he gave to a journalism professor that was published on J-Source (more background from the Globe). They also set up a tumblr. As freelancers who put many hours of work into OpenFile’s growth over the past few years, we were
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Would you qualify to keep the journalism job you have, if your skills were inputted into a spreadsheet and compared with your coworkers? Unions representing journalists at Ten – an Australian broadcaster – say the company wants to get more than 100 workers off the payroll. These are mostly union jobs, which typically means you start
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Sun News Network host Brian Lilley wants to privatize the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. That much probably doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone who watches his broadcasts on the network or reads his columns in Sun newspapers, where the CBC is a frequent target. He’s taken his fight off the airwaves with the release of