Bell Canada says it's cutting approximately 690 employees, mostly managers, to help reduce debt and drive growth. The cuts follow thousands of company layoffs last year.

This time Bell says it's axing about 650 non-unionized management positions across the country, representing less than two per cent of its workforce.

Canada's largest communications company said it's also cutting approximately 40 jobs at Bell Media, which represents less than one per cent of its news division.

"We made the difficult but necessary decision" to cut manager jobs to advance the company's three-year strategic plan to deliver "sustainable growth," Bell told CBC News in an email.

It did not provide further explanation for the Bell Media job cuts, but said that it thanks the laid off employees "for their dedic

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