BioWare Montreal absorbed by EA Motive. Mass Effect IP returns to Edmonton

Dude, I really can't be bothered to go through another one of these 'black is white' arguments. When you downsize something, or scale down something, or reduce it in any shape or form, you mean that it is being made less. You do not mean that you are adding it to another entity in its entirety and then expanding that entity. If a company goes bust it is not referred to as 'being downsized'. If I consolidate debts that does not mean I've paid up. If I say I'm going to eat less then I'm clearly not doing that if I simply shift all the same food to the end of the day. 

Now, if he didn't actually know that was what was happening - and he'd just been told 'ermahgerd they're dropping like flies'... then fair enough, but then that becomes a question of how much authority his source actually has. Inside of an NDA, stuff like this would have been common knowledge amongst the devs.

If he did know it was happening but chose to represent it in a one-sided fashion (i.e. THEY'RE DOWNSIZING THE OFFICE (because they're moving us to a bigger one and merging with another studio)) then I can't be sure what else he chose to massage for his article.

This goes back to all that stuff you were going on about how 'by 'never' he just meant 'during an <arbitrary time period I've made up>''. You're reading what you want him to say. And I really don't care what your impression of the article is, I'm interested in what it actually says vs what is happening.