From The Globe and Mail:

Stephen Hurlbut's 30-year career with CITY-TV news abruptly ended yesterday with no explanation from owner Rogers Media.

In an e-mail, Rogers advised CITY-TV staff that Hurlbut, who started as a camera operator, "has left Rogers."

"Our plans to increase our investment in strong local programming including news are not impacted by today's development," wrote Leslie Sole, chief executive officer of television at Rogers, adding that, in the interim, Hurlbut's duties in Toronto would be taken over by CITY-TV news director Tina Cortese.

Hurlbut, who most recently was national vice-president news, local information programming, could not be reached yesterday.