The Anglican Church of Canada announced drastic steps to deal with mounting legal bills amid claims from 1,600 former students of residential schools across the country. Arch-deacon Jim Boyles said the church was laying off workers and cutting about $600,000 from its budget.

Date: 2000-08-00
Placeline: Toronto, ON, Canada
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 27 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << today our national office we laid off eight one of eight full time employees and, announced the reduction in our budget for this year and plans for next year involving reduced to grants to our dioceses in the north to our overseas said church partners and, cuts to several of our programs that we offer to the church >>

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