‘Garbage Decision’: Trudeau Criticizes Bell’s Layoff of Journalists, Sale of Radio Stations

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was “furious” with a decision by Bell Canada to fire 9 percent of its workforce and slash nearly half of its regional radio stations, claiming the move will harm local journalism in communities across Canada. “I’m furious. This is a garbage decision by a corporation that should know better,” the prime minister told reporters during a press conference in King City, Ont. “We’ve seen over the past years, journalistic outlets, radio stations, and small community newspapers, bought up by corporate entities, who then lay off journalists, change the quality of offering to people, and then when people don’t watch or engage as much, the corporate entity says ‘see, they’re not profitable anymore, we’re going to sell them off.'”...