[R-G] And the job hits just keep on coming

[Sid Shniad]

http://www.thespec.com/article/537158 





  

C anadian Press                                                                                                                     March 26, 2009 





  

And the job hits just keep on coming 





  

Canada has lost nearly 300,000 jobs in four months, including 82,600 jobs in February, according to Statistics Canada. A look at some of the specific cuts since Jan. 1: 





  

JANUARY: 





  

* Air Canada cuts 345 jobs, mostly flight attendants. 





  

* Bell Canada plans to reduce its workforce by 1,500 jobs through retirement incentives. 





  

* Nova Chemicals cuts 400 jobs worldwide, including some at a petrochemicals plant in Sarnia. 





  

* DBG Metal Manufacturing in Woodstock lays off 35 people. 





  

* BC Ferries cuts 35 jobs. 





  

* Navistar cuts 200 jobs from truck plant in Chatham. 





  

* Steelmaker Evraz cuts 400 jobs across Western Canada. 





  

FEBRUARY: 





  

* Hudson's Bay cuts 1,000 jobs. 





  

* Bombardier Aerospace cuts 1,360 jobs. 





  

* Nortel Networks lays off 3,200 employees worldwide. 





  

* Teck Cominco Ltd. to cut 550 Canadian jobs by end of 2009. 





  

* DDM Plastics of Tillsonburg lays off 160 workers. 





  

* Torstar's Metroland Media Group cuts 64 full-time-equivalent positions at three papers -- 30 at the Hamilton Spectator, 21 at the Waterloo Region Record and 13 at the Guelph Mercury. 





  

* Toronto-based Russel Metals Inc. cuts 500 jobs. 





  

* Montreal-based printer and media company Transcontinental cuts about 600 jobs in Canada, about half of them in Quebec. 





  

* Canadian Pacific Railway cuts 37 jobs in southwestern Ontario. 





  

* De Beers Canada cuts 128 full-time workers. 





  

* Toronto-based CHUM Radio, a division of CTV Ltd., cuts 40 jobs across Canada. 





  

* Quebec-based Pratt & Whitney Canada to lay off 1,000 globally. 





  

MARCH: 





  

* 1,500 jobs lost when Pittsburgh-based United States Steel Corp. shuts down plants in Hamilton and Nanticoke, Ont. 





  

* Torstar Corp. cuts 60 jobs, primarily in advertising sales at the Toronto Star. 





  

* Chrysler cuts 1,200 jobs from minivan assembly plant in Windsor. 





  

* Vale Inco Ltd. cuts 423 white-collar jobs. 





  

* Steelmaker Evraz lays off 75 workers at operations in Regina. 





  

* CTV Television Inc. cuts 118 jobs at A Channel TV stations. 





  

* The Winnipeg Free Press newspaper cuts eight people, joining 13 or 14 people laid off at the newspaper earlier this year. 





  

* Wal-Mart Stores cuts 1,200 employees in southern Ontario. 





  

* Sears Canada cuts 300 workers. 





  

* Japanese heavy equipment maker Komatsu America Corp. cuts 245 jobs, closing Canadian plant in Candiac, Que. 





  

* CTV Television Inc. lays off more than 28 people from Canada AM morning show and First News in Montreal. 





  

* Howe Sound Pulp and Paper on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast carves 101 positions from its workforce. 





  

* United Technologies Corp., which owns Pratt & Whitney, to cut additional 10,600 jobs, including an unspecified number in Canada. 





  

* ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. to cut 80 full-time jobs in Cambridge. 





  

* Thunder Bay-based Buchanan Forest Products Ltd. lays off 40 people at eight idled sawmills located across northwestern Ontario. 





  

* Regina-based Advance Engineered Products to lay off 96 employees as of May 15. 





  

* Finning Canada lays off 69 workers in Red Deer, Alta. 





  

* Areva Resources Canada puts development of a uranium deposit at McClean Lake in northern Saskatchewan on hold and cuts 100 permanent staff. 





  

* Red Deer, Alta.-based Trican Well Services lets 37 people go. 





  

* The New Brunswick government says 700 jobs will be cut from the civil service in the year ahead. 





  

* The ArvinMeritor plant in Tilbury, Ont., to shut down in June, resulting in 200 layoffs. 





  

* Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan temporarily lays off 940 workers at three mines in the province. 





  

* Moosehead Breweries lays off 13 people in Saint John, N.B., Nova Scotia, Ontario and the U.S. 





  

* CBC to cut up to 800 full-time jobs across Canada.