Monthly Archives: December 2013

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What BC’s Public Sector Unions Got for ‘Labour Peace’

Written on Dec, 18, 2013 by in | Leave a comment

Source of Article: thetyee.ca Five-year deals show scrounging for nickels and security is new reality.  These are strange days, indeed, for public sector unions. Big developments, not always happy ones, are everywhere. Yet the dearth of labour reporters and the collective yawns from editors and the public alike have combined to shine relatively little light on groundbreaking events that would have dominated …

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Black Press shuts down Abbotsford/Mission Times

Written on Dec, 03, 2013 by in , , | Leave a comment

Source: j-source.ca Black Press Media has shut down the Abbotsford/Mission Times, a little more than a month after purchasing the B.C. paper from Glacier Media. The company also took down the newspaper’s website and closed its Twitter account. When asked why the company was shutting down a newspaper it considered a worthy purchase in October, Rick O’Connor, president and CEO of Black Media, told …

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