Corporation will have up to 1,500 fewer employees by 2020 CBC to cut 657 jobs, will no longer compete for professional sports rights The CBC is shifting its priorities from television and radio to digital and mobile services, a move that will reduce staff, and supper-hour news broadcasts and programs produced in-house, says CBC president and CEO Hubert T. Lacroix. “We used to lead with television and radio. Web came and then mobility came. We are reversing, we are inverting the priorities that we have,” Lacroix said, referring to the broadcaster’s 2020 strategy. “We’re going to lead now with mobility, we’re going to lead with whatever widget you use. "You’re going to see an investment in mobility that’s going to rise as the investment in perhaps television ... is reduced.” Lacroix said there will be job cuts over the coming years, but they will be made in "prudent steps." In 2020, the corporation will have 1,000 to 1,500 fewer employees. This would be in addition to the reductions announced to date. Currently, 1,000 employees are eligible for retirement. And through attrition, about 300 leave every year, according to the broadcaster. “The goal is that to be able to meet a financially stable and sustainable CBC/Radio-Canada, we have to reduce the infrastructures ... but we also have to reduce the number of people who are working at CBC/Radio-Canada,” Lacroix said |
With the introduction of the new Photos app and iCloud Photo Library, enabling you to safely store all of your photos in iCloud and access them from anywhere, there will be no new development of Aperture," said Apple in a statement provided to The Loop. "When Photos for OS X ships next year, users will be able to migrate their existing Aperture libraries to Photos for OS. |
According to TechCrunch, Apple will continue to provide compatibility updates to allow Aperture to run on OS X Yosemite, but development will stop. Apple is also working with Adobe to create a transitionary workflow to help users shift to Lightroom. |
Casey Kasem, the U.S. radio personality with the distinctive voice who counted down the top pop music hits on his popular weekly show and also provided the voice of hippie sleuth Shaggy on the Scooby Doo cartoons, died on Sunday. He was 82 |
Car stolen in Windsor hits Dartmouth power pole DAN ARSENAULT CRIME REPORTER Published June 10, 2014 - 5:33pm A car stolen in Windsor last week crashed into a power pole in Dartmouth after a police chase Tuesday morning. A 27-year-old Halifax woman, who hasn’t been identified, suffered minor injuries and was taken from the scene on Princess Margaret Boulevard near Killkee Gate. Wade O’Leary of Windsor, who works in Halifax and went to the crash scene, said he believes a man stole his daughter Jenna’s car overnight last Thursday. He said she couldn’t find her keys Friday morning and noticed her 1999 Toyota Corolla was gone. The theft was reported to police. On Tuesday at about 11 a.m., a member of O’Leary’s family, who didn’t want to be identified, saw an older Corolla on Main Street in Dartmouth and called Jenna, who provided a matching licence plate number. The relative called police and followed the car until police took over. Officers from Halifax Regional Police and Halifax RCMP took up the chase, which they said was not conducted at high speed, at Wyse and Windmill roads. According to police, they called off their pursuit when an RCMP cruiser came into contact with the Corolla. But people at the scene said the chase was still underway when the car hit the pole. Robbie Hatcher, who lives on Killkee Gate, heard sirens and went to an upstairs window. “I looked outside and then I saw the car go around the corner and hit the lamp pole. She hit the corner too quickly.” |
After a shooting in downtown Vancouver left one man critically injured outside a Starbucks, police chased an elderly suspect along the seaside and exchanged gunfire with him near a children’s science centre. A male victim — reportedly the owner of a nearby bike shop — lay on his back with a pool of blood beneath him outside the Starbucks around 11 a.m. in the upscale Yaletown district, with stunned baristas and passersby huddled around. |
Police caught up to the man outside Science World, about a 20-minute walk away from the Starbucks shooting scene. During the ensuing firefight, terrified Science World guests were told to lay flat on the floor. A female officer was injured by glass from the windshield of her cruiser during the melee. The shooter, who police said was a 61-year-old male, was also wounded and taken to hospital where he was in stable condition. |
CANTON, Mass. (AP) — After going for a walk, a German shepherd puppy owned by a Massachusetts man decided to go for a drive — straight into a pond. John Costello tells WFXT-TV (Puppy hits gas pedal, drives car into Canton pond - Boston News, Weather, Sports | FOX 25 | MyFoxBoston ) that his 12-week-old puppy, Rosie, was so excited Sunday after going for a walk at Bolivar Pond in Canton that she jumped in his running car, hit the gear stick and shifted into drive, before falling onto the gas pedal and sending the car careening into the water. A couple of passers-by saw the commotion and helped Costello rescue Rosie. Nobody was injured, but Costello says the Dodge Neon is a total loss. The 911 call surprised even police. Officer Robert Quirk says he has never heard of a dog driving into a pond. |
