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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 28, 1990
Page
3
A Manitoba election piece questions voter interest as weather and farming shape rural life. It notes farmers frequent coffee shops during campaigns and ponders if parties can improve rural Manitoba amid rising costs and depopulation. The piece ends by asking if anyone truly cares.
The Roblin Review welcomes signed letters. Include address and phone for verification. Only the name and town address will appear in print.
A reader challenges Manitoba leaders to make rural post office closures and privatization a campaign issue. Six provincial legislatures have urged Ottawa to halt the program, while Manitoba's legislature has not. The piece notes upcoming staff cuts and mail sortation delays and criticizes urban bureaucrats for decisions.
A reader laments rural Canada decline and urges policy action to halt post office closures. They challenge the three provincial parties to state plans, recount seven years in Roblin, praising community welcome, facilities, outdoor life, and local work with the elevator.
Kelly McGuinness and his grandfather reflect on the honey industry decline across Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Beekeepers have fallen from about 1700 to 771 in Alberta 207000 to 144000 hives province wide. Saskatchewan loses 15 major producers and 20,000 hives. Manitoba goes from 1350 producers 120000 hives to 1100 and 87000. Pollination reports rise in demand for more hives.
The piece notes Reagan era price supports crushed bee prices for U S and Canadian producers, closing the border to U S bee stocks due to diseases, spurring Canadian queen bee production and a possible new export of hives to Japan for greenhouse crops. It forecasts rising demand for queens if Africanized bees reach the U S and sees price as the decisive factor for industry recovery.
The 1990 Manitoba general election campaign features 199 nominees amid a dull start with leaders Sharon Carstairs and Gary Doer making similar pledges. NDP push tough plant closing laws and health care while Liberals seek council cuts and child care space. Conservatives promise budget notes and law enforcement.
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