Canadian Media Guild hopeful about new CBC president
By The Canadian Media Guild The Canadian Media Guild (CMG) hopes that the newly appointed president and CEO of CBC / Radio-Canada, Marie-Philippe Bouchard , will help [Read more...]
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CWA Canada members finalists for CAJ Awards!
Canadian Association of Journalists announces finalists for this year’s top investigative journalism awards [Read more...]
Tentative Deal at the CBC!
The bargaining team at the CBC Branch of our biggest local, the Canadian Media Guild (CWA Canada Local 30213), has announced a tentative agreement with the public [Read more...]
CBC: a treasure or relic?
KIM TRYNACITYFor CWA Canada Over recent months and years CBC has faced public outcries for everything from the telecast time of its flagship television show The National, to [Read more...]
Report that CBC plans to go digital-only alarms Guild members
The Canadian Media Guild says its members have been confused and alarmed by a report that the CBC is planning to go digital-only. Catherine Tait, president and CEO of the [Read more...]
CMG lauds review of CBC licence renewal ruling with emphasis on local news
The CWA Canada Local that represents most of the workers at the CBC is hailing a decision by the federal cabinet to grant its appeal and send a licence renewal decision back [Read more...]
Union slams CRTC ruling that allows CBC to cut TV news
In a stark reversal of decades of support for mandated hours of news production, the federal broadcast regulator announced Wednesday it would allow the CBC to cut back on [Read more...]
Heritage minister tells media union leaders he’s committed to helping news industry
Two media union leaders received assurances today from Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault that he will do what he can to help the news industry weather a financial crisis [Read more...]
Work-from-home workarounds
EVA VOINIGESCU During her first few days of working remotely, CBC parliamentary bureau senior reporter Karina Roman was worried that she’d recreate 2017’s viral “BBC [Read more...]
Union hails expanded access to COVID-19 emergency benefit for media workers
CWA Canada is hailing today’s announcement that the emergency benefit program will now be extended to many precarious workers in the media industry. Martin O’Hanlon, [Read more...]
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