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Torstar Corp. announced Monday that it would be eliminating 85 positions due to the negative effect COVID-19 has had on advertising revenue.

Torstar CEO John Boynton told staff in an online town hall that he had come to a decision to cut what had accounted for more than 3.5 per cent of the company’s workforce at the beginning of the year. Eleven of those positions came from the editorial department at Torstar, which publishes a host of newspapers including the Toronto Star.

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“Like almost every business in this climate, we are taking steps to address the serious impact of COVID-19 and have had to make difficult decisions to reduce costs with a view to ensuring our continued ability to deliver high-quality journalism to the communities we serve now and into the future,” Boynton told the Toronto Star following the meeting.