‘Nobody was reacting,’ says partner of man who pursued assisted death due to ER bedsore

Carrying an envelope full of photos of her partner, Sylvie Brosseau’s voice cracked as she shuffled through the stack — revealing a photo of Normand Meunier in a golf cart with their grandchildren. “We were always outside,” she said of Meunier. “Despite him being quadriplegic, he had many projects … he had goals.” But when he…

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CBC/Radio-Canada to scrap much-maligned ‘performance pay’ for managers

After a wave of criticism for handing out so-called “performance pay” to managers when it was considering layoffs, CBC/Radio-Canada’s board of directors is ending the practice altogether after a third-party review, the corporation said Wednesday. Previously, some of the public broadcaster’s non-unionized employees — executives and managers — were entitled to bonuses if it met or exceeded certain metrics like revenue…

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