A fired-up Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unleashed on Bell on Friday, calling its move to layoff thousands of employees — including hundreds of journalists — a “garbage decision.”
“I’m pretty pissed off about what’s just happened,” Trudeau said during a press conference in Toronto.
“This is the erosion not just of journalism, of quality local journalism at a time where people need it more than ever, given misinformation and disinformation … It’s eroding our very democracy, our abilities to tell stories to each other.”
On Thursday the media company — which owns CTV and BNN Bloomberg — announced 4,800 jobs “at all levels of the company” would be
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