Your union needs you, and your experience! Click here to apply by Monday, January 20, 2020 to serve on a CMG national committee at CBC/Radio-Canada. Much of the work is done by conference call; sometimes there are in-person meetings, usually … Read more »

Love to travel, learn, and collaborate with new colleagues? Apply by January 20, 2020 to serve on a CMG national committee at CBC! Much of the work is done by conference call; sometimes there are in-person meetings, usually in Toronto. … Read more »

Enter your best work for a chance to win the 2020 Canadian Hillman Prize. Hillman Prizes honour excellence in journalism “in service of the common good”.  Submitted work must have been broadcast or published in Canada in 2019. Submissions will … Read more »

The CMG elections 2019  have ended, and here are the results of the votes held December 5-9: National Executive Committee (NEC) President: Carmel Smyth: 658 (60.6%) Kamala Rao: 428 (39.4%) Vice-President: Brent Cousland: 538 (53.0%) Andrea Sellinger: 478 (47.0%) Director, … Read more »

CBC/Radio-Canada news management (English services) put out a note yesterday informing our members that “a number of CBC News staff were given notice of redundancy”. That is difficult to hear and we all feel it. As per our collective agreement, … Read more »

Dear fellow CMG members, I’d like to update you on some important items related to our collective bargaining round earlier this year.  New Job Descriptions CBC/Radio-Canada has provided the Canadian Media Guild (CMG) with the seven job descriptions that were … Read more »

This week, at the Quebec National Assembly, the Commission de la culture et des communications is looking at the future of the media, a key issue for the vitality of democracy. The commission seeks the opinion of various media companies … Read more »

The Canadian Media Guild is endorsing the We Choose CBC campaign, sponsored by the watchdog group FRIENDS of Canadian Broadcasting. An overwhelming majority of Canadians support our public broadcaster and worry about the scourge of misinformation more broadly. FRIENDS’ campaign … Read more »

Congratulations to Ellen Yarr of Charlottetown, PEI who has been selected as the winner of the Ron Pambrun Scholarship Award for 2019-2020. Ellen will be attending Dalhousie University this coming September.   “Thank you so much for your generosity in providing … Read more »

We are proud to announce that the members of the new CMG CBC/Radio-Canada Branch Editorial Board have been selected. They are: Kelly Crowe (Toronto) Laura Glowacki (Winnipeg) Nadia Jannif (Vancouver) Mary Lynk (Halifax) Jacques Poitras (Fredericton) Belle Puri (Vancouver) and … Read more »