Monthly Archives: January 2014

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Dear Local President, I am pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the John Belcarz and Dan Zeidler post-secondary education/training memorial scholarships. Two scholarships of $1,000 each are available. The accompanying attachments contain a poster and application form in both English and French (also available on our website: http://www.cwa-scacanada.ca. Please circulate this information to your members. In …

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Written on Jan, 10, 2014 by in , | Leave a comment

Source: thetyee.ca Glacier’s Kamloops paper shut down despite company profit margins above 30 per cent. Vancouver-based Glacier Media, which recently gave notice it will close the long-publishing Kamloops Daily News, enjoys profit margins above 30 per cent, according to financial reports available on its website. It also reportedly pays its top executives millions of dollars a year and pays its directors $1,000 for …

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Source: vancouversun.com The Kamloops Daily News is closing due to declining revenues and high costs, but the industry says this does not signal distress in the daily newspaper business as a whole. “This is the first major market paid daily that we’ve seen close in recent memory,” Newspapers Canada president and CEO John Hinds said. Read more: 

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Written on Jan, 08, 2014 by in | Leave a comment

By Martin O’Hanlon CWA Canada Director I’m going to make a bold prediction for 2014: the tide will finally begin to turn. It will turn for newspapers, which have been through the worst and will begin to see revenues climb again. It will turn for the Harper government (it already has really) which has been attacking labour, the CBC, and …

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