Stelco's layoffs bring workers and Ottawa into CHCH News's week
Sean Cowan speaks with longtime employee Mike Watt as the station follows job uncertainty in Hamilton and Nanticoke.
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Federal government weighs legal action over Stelco’s layoffs
For Mike Watt, Stelco's layoffs are more than a policy debate. In CHCH News's newest report, Sean Cowan speaks with the employee, who has spent more than two decades at the company and is unsure what comes next.
That personal account follows the station's most watched new upload, "Federal government weighs legal action over Stelco's layoffs." The report examines the possibility of federal court intervention over plans affecting as many as 500 Ontario workers. It also includes Pierre Poilievre's demand that the government ask a judge to block the layoffs.
CHCH posted 15 videos, but the Stelco coverage gives the week a clear local thread. "Union workers say Stelco has begun laying off employees with little notice" adds another development: Cleveland-Cliffs' CEO says workers facing temporary layoffs will be recalled if Canada and the U.S. reach a steel trade deal. That is a conditional promise, not a settled return date.
The federal-action report remains the channel's strongest daily draw, followed by the union-workers Short and the Burlington announcement broadcast. Across the library, CHCH added about 1.3 million views and gained subscribers. Its daily viewing is also above its usual pace, though that describes the current day rather than the whole week.
Among nearby local-news channels, CBS Colorado and WKRN News 2 had larger weekly viewing totals. CHCH's own coverage keeps narrowing the distance between national trade negotiations and the people whose working lives depend on them, with Watt's interview bringing that uncertainty back to one employee.
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- Channel
- CHCH News
- Subscribers
- 180,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,344,880
- Videos published this week
- 15
- Video published
- October 9, 2026
- Video views so far
- 27,140
- Views on its first day
- 15,925
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