{"id":90657,"date":"2026-06-16T14:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/90657\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T14:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:06:09","slug":"bell-canada-cuts-another-690-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/90657\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell Canada cuts another 690 jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Bell tied the reductions to its operations and several initiatives. &#8220;These changes are part of our ongoing business operations and reflect several initiatives,&#8221; it said in an email to CBC News, &#8220;including the migration of customers to a more resilient, easier-to-maintain fibre network and ongoing operating efficiencies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The round extends a multi-year cycle. In November 2025, Bell cut nearly 700 jobs \u2014 about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrreporter.com\/focus-areas\/recruitment-and-staffing\/bell-lays-off-hundreds-of-managers\/393763\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">650 non-unionised management roles<\/a> plus 40 at Bell Media. In February 2024 it eliminated about 4,800 jobs, roughly 9% of its workforce, after shedding around 1,300 positions in June 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The cuts sit inside an explicit financial commitment: $1.5 billion in savings by 2028 through a &#8220;companywide transformation and continued focus on operational efficiencies,&#8221; set at BCE&#8217;s 2025 investor day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Profitable as it cuts, and betting on AI<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The cuts are not a response to losses. Last month BCE reported quarterly profit of $616 million, or 66 cents per diluted share, against $630 million a year earlier. Even so, it is steering capital toward AI: chief executive Mirko Bibic has said BCE raised its AI-revenue target by about a third, to roughly $2 billion by 2028, CBC News reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In March 2026 it announced a $1.7-billion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/ca\/specialization\/transformation\/bell-announces-12billion-ai-data-centre-1600-new-jobs\/568841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AI data centre<\/a> near Regina, projected to generate up to $12 billion in economic value and support about 800 construction jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bell tied the reductions to its operations and several initiatives. &#8220;These changes are part of our ongoing business&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34396,12075,17,19044],"class_list":["post-90657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-bce","tag-bell-canada","tag-canada","tag-layoffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}