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28 Apr

Quebecor CEO Robert Dépatie retires for health reasons

<p>Robert Dépatie has announced he has retired as CEO and president of Quebecor Media for health reasons. He will be replaced by Pierre Dion effective immediately.</p><p>Dépatie will help oversee the transition until May 30. He stepped in for Pierre Karl Péladeau, who left as president and CEO in March 2013.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>Pierre Dion will be Quebecor's third CEO in just over a year. But he was also part of Péladeau's inner circle.</p>

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25 Apr

Sinclair Stewart promoted to Globe deputy editor

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Sinclair Stewart_1.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Sinclair Stewart, currently manager of news and sports at <em>The Globe and Mail,</em> has been promoted to deputy editor.</p><p>Editor-in-chief David Walmsley said Stewart will assume the new role on Monday.</p>

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25 Apr

Memo: Sinclair Stewart named Globe’s deputy editor

<p>Sinclair Stewart has been appointed Deputy Editor of The Globe and Mail.</p><p>I have made this appointment to provide further emphasis to what I believe the editorial department needs - consistently disciplined journalistic muscle. </p><p>Sinclair is no stranger to you but I wanted to explain the merit behind my decision.</p>

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24 Apr

Katie Simpson joins CTV National

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Katie Simpson_0.JPG" title="" />CP24’s Katie Simpson is leaving Toronto to join CTV National as a reporter in Ottawa.</p>

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23 Apr

Paul Haysom joins Global Calgary

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Paul Haysom_0.JPG" title="" />Paul Haysom is Global Calgary’s new <em>News Hour Final</em> anchor.</p><p>Haysom joined the Global Calgary newsroom from B.C., where he worked as a reporter and anchor at Global’s 24-hour news channel, BC 1. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>

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23 Apr

Veteran Winnipeg journalist Val Werier dead at 96

<p>Veteran Winnipeg journalist Val Werier died Monday at age 96. Werier had a career spanning more than 75 years. He started as a freelancer for the <em>Winnipeg Tribune</em> and after its demise in 1980, he joined the <em>Winnipeg Free Press</em>.</p>

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22 Apr

Patricia Graham named first ombudswoman for Brunswick News

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Patricia Graham_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Patricia Graham, former editor-in-chief of the <em>Vancouver Sun</em> and vice-president of digital at Pacific Newspaper Group, is the new ombudswoman of Irving-owned Brunswick News.</p>

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22 Apr

Tim Bousquet to launch Halifax news website in May

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Tim Bousquet_0.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Tim Bousquet, an award-winning writer and former news editor at <em>The Coast</em>, is launching an online news website in Halifax.</p><p>Bousquet said he has a name in mind for the site but won’t announce it until the launch of the site in early May.</p>

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22 Apr

Grant Ellis joins BNN as managing editor

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Grant Ellis_0.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Grant Ellis, the managing editor of the <em>Financial Post</em>, is joining BNN as its managing editor.</p><p>Ellis will join BNN at the end of May. He will fill in the role that has been vacant since June 2013 with the departure of anchor and managing editor Marty Cej.</p>

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22 Apr

Post sports columnist Bruce Arthur joins Toronto Star

<p><em>National Post</em> sports columnist Bruce Arthur is joining the <em>Toronto Star</em>.</p><p>According to his <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/bruce-arthur.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">online bio</a>, Arthur is a graduate of University of British Columbia and joined the <em>Post </em>in 2001 as a sports reporter. He became the basketball columnist in 2005, a Toronto columnist in 2007 and a national columnist a year later.</p>

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