The media blackout involving the CBC and the Canadian Media Guild has been extended a third time, to 12 midnight (Eastern) tonight, according to a message on the CMG hotline (1-888-591-9129).
There's more breaking news from Robin Rowland ...
The mediators working with the CBC and CMG in Hull have apparently told both sides they "want it over by tonight" meaning the current 1800 ET deadline for the end of the news blackout.
CMG officials say there is some progess and "there have been cracks" but management is still sticking to many of their points.
When talks began again after a break early Sunday morning, money was on the table for the first time, a good sign that of progress.
Robin also reports on CMG president Lise Lareau's remarks this afternoon to pickets outside the Broadcast Centre in Toronto:
She warned that some "key issues" still remain to be resolved, but she also commented that mediator Elizabeth MacPherson, director-general of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, who is also a labour lawyer has been "a great deal of help" in sorting out the thorny issues in contract language.
UPDATE: Tod Maffin's latest poll on CBC Unplugged has most respondents picking Oct. 11 (the first day of business after the Thanksgiving holiday) as the most likely day for return to work.
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