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WE Charity laying off staff, looking to sell real estate in Toronto
BY , Aug 13, 2020 7:49 PM - REPORT AN ERROR
Marc Kielburger, screen left, and Craig Kielburger, screen right, appear as witnesses via videoconference during a House of Commons finance committee in the Wellington Building in Ottawa on Tuesday, July 28, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
WE Charity is scaling back its operations, making dozens of layoffs in Canada and the United Kingdom and looking to sell some of its real estate holdings in Toronto.
WE Charity's U-K operations will be centralized in Canada, which means 19 full-time and contract employees in London will be laid off.
At its global headquarters in Toronto, 16 full-time employees will be laid off and another 51 employees working on fixed-term contracts won't have them renewed.
All this follows the uproar over the Liberal government's decision to award WE a sole-source contract to manage its student jobs program, despite the Trudeau family's close association with WE.
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