{"id":3319,"date":"2019-07-25T14:35:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T14:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/?p=3319"},"modified":"2019-07-25T14:35:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T14:35:20","slug":"cmg-troubled-by-death-at-cbc-building-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/cmg-troubled-by-death-at-cbc-building-in-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"CMG troubled by death at CBC building in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Released and emailed to members on July 15, 2019<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>CMG troubled by death at CBC building in Toronto<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/span>We are disturbed and saddened to learn of\u00a0a\u00a0reported\u00a0death at the CBC&#8217;s Toronto building on Saturday July 13, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Media Guild (CMG) is a union comprised of over five thousand (5000) media workers. Over 4000 CMG members are employees at CBC\/Radio-Canada (CBC). Many of us work at the CBC building in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts are with the person who died and their loved ones. We understand that the Ontario Ministry of Labour is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p>We are also reflecting on the wellbeing of all of our fellow CMG members who have been affected by this disturbing occurrence at one of our flagship worksites. It can be very difficult to bear witness to terrible incidents such as this, especially when so unexpected, and within our workplace.<\/p>\n<p>To CMG members, please be kind to yourselves and each other, and consider talking things over with a counsellor or someone you trust.\u00a0 Know that our union organization is available to lend support; please connect and let us know what assistance you may need, and\u00a0 share anything you deem relevant and appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>CMG will follow the Ministry of Labour&#8217;s investigation into this tragic incident.<\/p>\n<p>In solidarity,<\/p>\n<p>Naomi Robinson<br \/>\nPresident, Toronto Location Unit, CBC\/SRC Branch, CMG<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Spence<br \/>\nPresident, CBC\/SRC Branch, CMG<\/p>\n<p>Kamala Rao<br \/>\nPresident, Canadian Media Guild<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Released and emailed to members on July 15, 2019 CMG troubled by death at CBC building in Toronto We are disturbed and saddened to learn of\u00a0a\u00a0reported\u00a0death at the CBC&#8217;s Toronto building on Saturday July 13, 2019. The Canadian Media Guild&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/cmg-troubled-by-death-at-cbc-building-in-toronto\/\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3320,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions\/3320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmg.ca\/toronto\/cbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}