CMG freelance branch president Don Genova provides an update on activities in the winter edition of the union’s newsletter here. The branch is 
busy meeting with CBC management to improve the ways freelancers are contracted at the public broadcaster. It is also welcoming new members to the fold, in the form of writers represented by the Canadian Writers Group. Don writes:
By bringing together a wider spectrum of print, broadcast and electronic journalists we will be able to have a louder voice not only with employers, but with governments and regulators who are struggling to keep pace with what constitutes copyright and intellectual property.