Recent major job cuts in Canada

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Published: Friday, February 6, 2009 | 2:26 PM ET
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Bombardier Aerospace of Montreal, Canada's only aircraft maker, will eliminate 1,360 jobs, or about 4.5 per cent of its workforce, to deal with a drop in orders for business jets. More than half the cuts are in Montreal, with the rest in the United States and Northern Ireland.
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2 v( L! c; q4 N; |" x9 Y( f-Canada's oldest retailer, Hudson's Bay Co., cuts 1,000 jobs, or about five per cent of its full-time workforce, as part of a corporate restructuring to improve efficiency and lower operating costs.
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% I* z( E5 h, c  d  h-Montreal forestry company Tembec Inc. temporarly idles mills in British Columbia, Manitoba and Ontario, affecting 1,400 jobs, because of sagging pulp markets.

-Teck Cominco Ltd. (TSX:TCK.B) of Vancouver cuts 1,400 jobs worldwide, more than a third from Western Canada. About 400 jobs will be affected in British Columbia and 105 in Alberta.
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# j5 Y( |/ k! L0 V5 p; ^-Zinc miner HudBay Minerals Inc. (TSX:HBM) will shut down its Chisel North zinc mine and concentrator in the northern Manitoba community of Snow Lake, affecting 100 jobs.

! h; i7 Q2 J8 n5 a9 J, C8 ?-Montreal-based AbitibiBowater Inc. (TSX:ABH), the world's largest newsprint producer, plans to close its paper mill in Grand Falls in central Newfoundland, affecting nearly 800 jobs.

-The Volvo group shifts road grader manufacturing from its plant in Goderich in southwestern Ontario to the United States, cutting 500 jobs.
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+ X+ n0 q8 z# ~3 |4 ?6 ~# D-General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM) will shut down its pickup truck plant in Oshawa, Ont. this spring with the loss of 2,600 jobs. A transmission plant in Windsor, Ont. will close in 2010, with another 1,400 jobs affected.
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-Deere & Co. (NYSE:DE), the world's largest maker of farm machinery, is closing a utility vehicle factory in Welland, Ont., costing the Ontario economy 800 jobs.

-Western Canadian Coal Corp. (TSX:WTN), a Vancouver-based coal producer, says it plans to reduce operations at its Brule mine and Wolverine operation in British Columbia. The cuts affect 35 of its contract employees at Brule near Chetwynd, B.C. At Wolverine, near Tumbler Ridge, 400 contract and company employees have been given notice.

-In Chatham, another 470 workers will lose their jobs at the Navistar truck plant in the southwestern Ontario community Ski-Doo and Sea-Doo manufacturer Bombardier Recreational is cutting its workforce by nearly 1,000, about half of those at its Quebec operations near Montreal, as it slashes production by 20 per cent after a dramatic drop in demand.

& m. j. N4 b# b-FNX Mining Co. Inc. (TSX:FNX) suspended commercial production at its Levack nickel mine near Sudbury, Ont., and North American Palladium Ltd. (TSX:PDL) placed its Lac des Iles mine near Thunder Bay, Ont., on care and maintenance, laying off 350 workers.

: V( o$ k5 a5 S8 }) R; R-First Nickel Inc. (TSX:FNI) shut down its Lockerby mine near Sudbury due to the "challenging financial environment," cutting about 150 jobs.

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