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At the tender age of 22, Jason Tasse had been working outside at a lumber yard to pay for his undergraduate degree at Carleton University when he learned Lee Valley Tools was looking for seasonal employees to help with its Christmas holiday rush.
With winter coming, he liked the idea of holding down an indoor job and had heard good things about the Ottawa-based, family-owned Canadian business, which sells hardware, woodworking, gardening and kitchen tools.
“If you really worked hard, they’d keep you full-time,” said Tasse, who first got hired for a warehouse job. “My objective was to stay warm, work hard and keep the job.”
If something isn’t done soon to support Canadian journalism in all of its forms, we are all in trouble, writes Alex Freedman, executive director of the Community Radio Fund of Canada.
Opinion: Without a vision from government, the CBC s licensing hearing is futile theglobeandmail.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theglobeandmail.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Advancing Bill C-10 is key to saving local news media in Canada By Troy Reeb. Published on Jan 25, 2021 7:46am Bill C-10 is an opportunity for Ottawa to continue to deliver on its cultural goals while shifting some of the obligation from our own broadcasters to the deep-pocketed foreign streamers. The West Block of the Parliament buildings (Jolson Lim/iPolitics)
Last April, when deaths from COVID-19 were spiking and fear of the unknown was high, journalist Caryn Lieberman donned protective gear to take Global News viewers on a harrowing journey through one of the country’s busiest coronavirus intensive-care units in Toronto.