Premier David Eby is criticizing the massive selloff and restructuring at one of Canada’s biggest media firms set to transform the radio landscape in B.C.
Bell Canada is cutting nine per cent of its workforce, including layoffs at its media division, where it is selling off 45 of its 103 regional radio stations.
Stations in the Okanagan and in the northwest, northeast and southeast corners of the province are among the 21 B.C.
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