Manitoba Press Council outlines 8 goals and procedures
George Maltby, inaugural chair, promises impartial, thorough hearings with no press policing role. The council aims to hear complaints in writing, limit six month deadlines, operate without lawyers, and issue non binding recommendations while preserving defamation rights in court. Meetings planned mid March with first hearings possible in June.
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Anitobans
Manitoba Press Council
George Maltby
Maltby
Manitoba Ombudsman
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
Don Aiken
Council
Canada
Commission
England
Hull
Royal Air
St. James
Ed Schreyer
Manitoba
Toronto
Red-Fit Centre
Manitoba press council to handle reader complaints
Manitoba plans a new press council to handle reader complaints after first attempting to resolve issues with newspapers. Don Aiken explains submission rules and timelines while council members from the public will outnumber paper representatives. hearings may occur quarterly with out‑of‑town complainants reimbursed.
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Aiken
Eee
Press Council
Manitoba
Winnipeg Tribune
Dick Goodwin
Manitoba press council members named in variety of media roles
The nine member council will include one professional and one citizen representative from each of Free Press Brandon Sun Portage la Prairie Daily Graphic and Manitoba community newspapers plus a citizen chairman and a staff officer. Brief bios cover George Maltby Gordon Arnold Trevor Anderson Murray Lyons Helen Riesberry John Oslund Mardon Don Aiken and a final staff appointee.
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Manitoba Press Council
Free Press
Brandon Sun
la Prairie Daily Graphic
Manitoba
Winnipeg Sun
Sun
Paul Sullivan
Cecil Havent
Cil
Portage la Prairie Daily Graphic
The
Daily Graphic
Soar Ts Manitoba Press
Gordon Arnold
Arnold
Steinbach Carillon
Morris-Emerson Journal
Derksen
Steinch
Calgary Herald
Page One
Datafile
Treherne- Somerset
Winnipeg
University of Manitoba
Trevor Anderson
Anderson
West End
Greenway
General Wolfern
Daniel McIintyre
Oxford
Murray Lyons
Lyons
Portage la Prairie
Portage Daily Graphic
Associated Weekly
Moose Jaw Times-Herald
Prince Albert Herald
Nipawin Journal
Saskatchewan
the Sun
Ottawa
Council
Helen Riesberry
Riesberry
Press Council
Whitehead
Brandon
Children’s Aid Society of Western Manitoba
Western
Canada
Brandon Festival of Arts
John Oslund
Manitoba Community Newspapers Association
Oslund
Neepawa Press
Sioux Lookout
Ont
Mardon
Community Newspapers Association
Scotland
Malaya
United Press News Service
Winnipeg Tribune
Southam Inc
Don Aiken
Aiken
Aberdeen
Linwood School
St. James
Atlantic
England
Manitoba Normal School
Duck Mountain
Royal Canadian Air Force
Tribune
Winni
Tans Canada Airlines
Dryden, Ont
Observer
the Tribune
Canasus Communications Inc
Daugh— Aiken
Cally
Pao
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Winnipeg Free Press
Community Newspapers
Harry Mardon
Tulane Bay
Goodwin
Amy
Kent
Royal Commission On Newspapers
University of Alberta
Law School
Edmonton
Law
Manitoba Law Reform Commission
Winnipeg Jets
Reston Recorder
Redvers, Sask
Optimist
Reston
Jack Huxley
Huxley
Neepawa Chamber of Commerce
Lions Club
Elks Lodge
Investors Group
Manitoba Department of Energy
Investors
National
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