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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 31, 1996
Page
2
The article reflects on the challenges and rewards of running a local newspaper. It thanks advertisers subscribers readers contributors and tipsters for keeping the Review afloat through 1996 acknowledges occasional misses and pledges to continue delivering community news and pictures despite pressures.
A reader denounces a December 10 1996 editorial for defending a bill to privatize MTS and accuses the government of breaking House rules to push through the measure. The writer claims the Premier avoided personal responsibility by blaming the Speaker and vows continued opposition as a New Democrat.
The speech by MP Clifford Sifton promised free land to attract farm families to the Great Plains. He set performance bonuses for recruitment and aimed to prevent Yankee control, despite land owned by CPR and the Hudson Bay Company. He governed by a stern, unyielding approach and offered little explanation or apology.
Pierre Berton notes Sir Clifford Sifton’s hard line on who could settle in Canada. He reshaped the bureaucracy, filled senior posts with trusted cronies, and flooded the Prairies with white settlers. By 10 years the region saw 217000 American-born arrivals, changing Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta forever.
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