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Reporters at the Toronto Star withheld their bylines from the newspaper’s Wednesday edition in a show of protest against upcoming layoffs and restructuring. Where a byline should be in the paper,it simply reads Star Staff.

“[W]e need to do something to send a powerful message to the publisher and the board – which is meeting here [on Tuesday], and will be in town tomorrow for Torstar’s 4th quarter results – that we all stand by our targeted colleagues,” union representative Dan Smith wrote in a memo to newsroom staff.

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“We also need to send those colleagues — including our other friends targeted for layoff, in the library, the art department, among the editorial assistant ranks, even the student radio roomers who the company also plans to shed – that we value their work and stand with them.”

The show of solidarity follows an announcement from the company that owns the newspaper with the largest circulation in Canada that it intends to save money at the paper with buyout packages, layoffs and outsourced page production.