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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 15, 1988
Page
2
An Ann M. Smith piece highlights a literacy crisis in Canada. It cites a Southam News survey showing 25 percent of adults functionally illiterate, with higher rates in workers and older adults and estimates of total economic drain reaching 10.7 billion dollars.
A reader weighs the CBC all-news TV proposal due by spring, praising broader Canadian coverage from Halifax Winnipeg and Calgary while criticizing urban bias and limited prairie access. Scrambled CAN COM signal, satellite dish costs, and decoder fees may exclude rural viewers who lack cable. He urges political candidates to push unscrambled access.
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