WE Charity laying off staff, looking to sell real estate in Toronto

WE Charity is scaling back its operations, making dozens of layoffs in Canada and the United Kingdom and looking to sell some of its real estate holdings in Toronto.

WE Charity's U-K operations will be centralized in Canada, which means 19 full-time and contract employees in London will be laid off.

At its global headquarters in Toronto, 16 full-time employees will be laid off and another 51 employees working on fixed-term contracts won't have them renewed.

All this follows the uproar over the Liberal government's decision to award WE a sole-source contract to manage its student jobs program, despite the Trudeau family's close association with WE.