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Podcast: Closer Look
Episode: Will scrapping home-to-home mail delivery actually save Canada Post?
Description: After years of red ink, Canada Post insists it has a plan to finally deliver a major turnaround.Last week, the federal government paved the way for Canada Post to adopt a list of controversial cost-cutting measures, including ending home-to-home delivery and shuttering some rural post offices.Unionized postal workers responded to the news with another country-wide strike — the second labour disruption in less than a year. A week later, they remain off the job.In an open letter released yesterday, Doug Ettinger, the president and CEO of Canada Post, sa...