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Are you only half as diverse as you should be?

Did 2016 Punch You In The Dick As Hard As It Punched Canadian Media?

Did you get laid off at the end of every financial quarter?

Did your bosses give themselves [$2.3 million in retention bonuses](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/postmedia-executives-receive-23-million-in-bonuses/article33009649/) after a year of nothing but layoffs?

Did you get [spied on while doing your job?](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-journalists-police-spying-1.3833507)

Did the federal government [open an inquiry](http://business.financialpost.com/news/trudeau-government-assessing-a-future-without-canadas-two-largest-newspaper-companies) into whether you will go out of business in the coming years?

Did you get paid for doing your job?

Could you [dress up as Pikachu](http://www.canadalandshow.com/newfoundland-premier-blocks-pikachu-press-conference/) and go wherever you wanted?

Did your employer stop [speaking with you for more than 9 months](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/chronicle-herald-strike-nine-months-1.3838442) after you went on strike?

And then ask [the government for advertising money?](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/chronicle-herald-government-ad-dollars-parliamentary-committee-1.3858411)

Did your [crisis put Canadian democracy at risk?](https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/09/29/canadian-media-crisis-puts-democracy-at-risk-says-torstar-chair-john-honderich.html)

Did you invest almost $25 million into a tablet app that [didn't work out?](http://business.financialpost.com/news/toronto-star-announces-newsroom-layoffs-downsizing-at-tablet-app-star-touch)

Were cutbacks at your company described as, [“I guess it’s just the new world order”?](https://www.thestar.com/business/2016/09/30/rogers-to-stop-print-editions-of-four-magazines.html)

Have politicians started [worrying](http://ipolitics.ca/2016/12/09/shrinking-press-gallery-worrying-mps/) about how small you are?

Either you are a reporter in Canada or or you have very back luck. Sorry. Good luck in 2017, though.

Yes, it was.

No, it wasn't.

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