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Quebecor Inc., president and CEO Pierre Karl Peladeau, announces that TVA Goup, will lay off more than 500 employees, in Montreal, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Photo by Christinne Muschi /The Canadian Press
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A look at news events in November 2023:
1 – The Ottawa Senators fire general manager Pierre Dorion. The team announces that hockey operations president Steve Staios will take over the job on an interim basis.
2 – Montreal-based broadcaster TVA Group says it is laying off nearly one-third of its workforce as the company contends with declining audiences and ad revenues. It says the shift involves overhauling its news division and ending its in-house entertainment content production.
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3 – Clare’s Law is now in effect in Newfoundland and Labrador. The law allows people at risk of intimate partner violence to get information about their partner’s history and lets police proactively disclose information to someone they feel is at risk.
4 – The Texas Rangers win their first World Series in the franchise’s 63-season history. Texas beats fellow wild-card entry the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-0 to take the championship in five games.
5 – Canada’s top court rules that mandatory minimum sentences are unconstitutional for the crime of child luring. The Supreme Court of Canada finds in a 6-1 decision that such sentences violate the Charter-protected right that guards against “cruel and unusual treatment or punishment.”
6 – McGill University’s principal says Quebec’s $8,000 tuition increase for out-of-province students will be devastating for the renowned Schulich School of Music. Deep Saini is predicting as much as an 80-per-cent drop in the enrolment of Canadian students from outside Quebec next fall and estimating McGill will take a hit of between $42 million and $94 million every year. The Quebec government says it needs to double tuition for out-of-province students to protect the French language.
7 – King Charles delivers a speech to mark the grand state opening of British Parliament. Charles pays tribute to his mother at the start of the first King’s Speech since 1951.
8 – The Hollywood actors strike comes to an end after the union reaches a tentative deal with studios.
9 – The federal and Quebec governments will each invest $900 million over the next four years to accelerate housing construction. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Quebec Premier Francois Legault announce the deal, calling it a unique move because a province is matching the federal funding on offer.
10 – Canadian Tire plans to cut about three per cent of its workforce in its fourth quarter as it faces softening consumer demand. The retailer also says it won’t fill the majority of its current job vacancies, which will result in another three per cent reduction.
11 – Tens of thousands of British Columbia residents are left without power after high winds and heavy rains sweep across parts of the province. BC Hydro says that at one point 170,000 customers were in the dark across the Sunshine Coast, Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island.
12 – The Edmonton Oilers fire head coach Jay Woodcroft after a sluggish start to their NHL season. The club also announces assistant coach Dave Manson has also been let go. Hartford Wolf Pack head coach Kris Knoblauch assumes head coaching duties, joined by assistant coach Paul Coffey.
13 – Former fashion executive Peter Nygard is found guilty of four counts of sexual assault, but is acquitted of a fifth count, plus a charge of forcible confinement.
14 – Maple Ridge, B.C. will be the site of a billion-dollar lithium-ion battery plant. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes the announcement alongside B.C. Premier David Eby. The pair say the new E-One Moli facility will bolster Canada’s role as a global leader in clean technology.
15 – The Royal Canadian Mint releases its image of King Charles that will soon be the face of all new coins in the country. The design announcement comes on the monarch’s 75th birthday. The mint says a small amount of 2023-dated coins with the King are to begin circulation in early December.
16 – The man accused of killing four members of a Muslim family in London, Ont., is found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder. Jurors in the trial of Nathaniel Veltman….
