Just when it didn't seem like another drop of blood was left to squeeze from its various Alberta stones, Don Mills, Ont.-based Postmedia Network Inc. pushed another five senior newsroom employees out the door of the Edmonton Journal on Friday.

The carnage at the Journal included two veteran copy editors, two graphic artists and a National Newspaper Award winning photographer.

Reports from Alberta's deep south indicate a similar number of newsroom staffers were made to walk the plank at the Calgary Herald about a week earlier.

Finance Vice-President David Becker and Reader Sales and Marketing VP Stroud McDonald are among the latest 18 Edmonton Journal employees out the door in the aftermath of the Postmedia Network Inc. takeover of the Canwest newspaper chain.