National Research Council lays off one-third of staff
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The National Research Council has laid off more than one-third of its Winnipeg scientific staff and announced its intention to sell both its buildings on Ellice Avenue.
According to sources, an NRC vice-president was in Winnipeg Monday and announced 54 employees would be laid off and the magnetic-resonance imaging and related technology work that has been taking place in Winnipeg for many years, would be wound down.
A spokesman for the National Research Council in Ottawa would not confirm details, but did say “an announcement had been made” at the Winnipeg operation.
The shake-up at the NRC has been expected for some time. Sources said the transformation will mean less pure research and development work and more commercialization.
“We were expecting big changes but we didn’t know it would be that big or that quick,” said Gary Brownstone, executive director of The Eureka Project, a business incubator at the University of Manitoba’s Smartpark.
“But it sounds consistent with the overall mantra of cost rationalization (at the NRC).”