The candidate profiles for the role of Secretary-Treasurer, a position on the CMG National Executive Committee (NEC), are now available. Click the candidate’s name below to read the profile: Lynne Chichakian Jonathan Spence The successful candidate will be elected to … 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 »

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This is a final note for my 2017-2019 mandate. My hope is that I left the union and you, its members, better off. In my term I have held to some basic principles. Those principles are to raise the floor … Read more »

Dear fellow CMG members, including incoming and outgoing members of the national executive, The results of the Canadian Media Guild (CMG) national and branch elections were released earlier this month. Union officers have been elected by fellow members to serve … Read more »

Love to travel, learn, and collaborate with new colleagues? Sit 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. Committee members get paid time off … 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 »

With the close the final nomination period on Wednesday November 20, some more positions have been filled, and in other cases elections are scheduled for December 5 – 9. Please click here to see all results and candidates’ profiles. The vote … 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 »