New seats redrew B.C. legislature’s floor plan. They bring political calculations too

Journalists at Kamloops’s Radio NL had just arrived at the office when their program director asked them individually to follow him to an office down the hall.Joined there by two other senior executives, the journalists were each told last Tuesday that operations had become unsustainable, and that their positions were being eliminated – effective immediately.Four of the station’s seven employees lost their jobs that morning at “B.C.’s hardest working newsroom,” which had a reputation for consistently punching above its weight – leading news coverage not just in the southern interior, but...