Over 200 employees at Natural Resources Canada have been informed that their positions either have been, or will be, cut in the near future. Mark Grimson is Union of Canadian Transportation Employees’ Regional Vice President for the Prairies & the North. He says last week, about 100 employees at Natural Resources Canada were told that their positions had been cut, and notices were sent out to over 100 more, warning that they could face the same fate. He says the cut workers were responsible for tasks such as forest fire tracking, flood tracking, and identification of other environmental risks. Although these are important jobs in an everchanging climate, Grimson says what’s more disturbing is the human impact these job cuts have had. …Most of the information being received comes in the form of public news releases, not personal addresses. Grimson says it would be nice to hear directly from the federal government.