This cheery little brief from CP via globeandmail.com:

The Montreal Gazette, the city's only English-language daily newspaper, has told employees it wants to reduce its newsroom staff. Publisher Alan Allnutt says the Gazette wants the staff reductions to be achieved through voluntary departures sweetened by enhanced severance packages. He says in the memo that the move is being driven by the newspaper's market, circulation and readership as well as by other economic factors. The newspaper is one of several Canadian daily newspapers owned by CanWest Global Communications Corp. CGS (TSX) rose 70 cents to $8.28.