Torstar Corp. will lay off 21 staff at its StarMetro office in Toronto, as part of a shift of production operations to Hamilton for cost efficiencies.
The cuts include nine full-time editors, two full-time reporter-photographers, and 10 part-time copy editors, who will have work at the paper until the end of August.
Copy editors will be able to apply for jobs at the expanding office in Hamilton.
Torstar, owns weekly and daily newspapers including the Toronto Star and the Hamilton Spectator, StarMetro papers in Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Toronto, and Vancouver.
They also have an investment in The Canadian Press.