CRTC questioned over rural Manitoba cable ownership
In a Winnipeg hearing this month the CRTC revisits a settled dispute on who should own cable drops for rural Manitoba operators. The Canada Manitoba agreement already allows publicly owned Manitoba telephone to own the drops, making the CRTC’s revisit seen as redundant and an overreach. Critics urge the commission to acknowledge the settled policy and curb its power.
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CRTC
Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunication Commission
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Government of Canada
Province of
Westman Media Cooperative Limited
No Time for Traditionalists and Canada’s Economic Future
Ottawa minister Barney Danson urges a modern, resource rich Canada. He argues for leveraging mineral wealth to build technologically innovative, Canadian owned industries rather than mass manufacturing elsewhere. He warns against overreliance on resources and promotes future manufacturing jobs and growth.
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Barney Danson
Ottawa
Canada
Danso
Danson
Rene Levesque
OPEC
Ameri
Sunbelt
Dawson
Golden Age of Canadian Writing Praised by Reader
A columnist recalls discovering Timothy Findley and praises The Wars as a standout Governor General’s Award winner. He critiques Canadian literary culture, urges readers to buy local authors, and lists a broad roster of Canadian writers across regions, urging support for a national literary rise.
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Olhr
Jane Timothy Findley
Literture
Timothy Findley
Governor-Cieneral
Findley
Canada
England
Marlowe
Ben Jobnse
Will Shakespeare
Russia
Tolstoi Ubas
Merica
Ily Cather
Steinbeck Dreiser
Hemingsay
Sandburg
Manitoba Family Law Bills Approved by Legislature
A government column outlines passage of The Marital Property Act and The Family Maintenance Act in Manitoba. It emphasizes equal sharing of assets, court discretion on 60/40 splits, deferred sharing, and encouragement of financial independence. The bills aim to modernize property rights, support maintenance fairness, and promote marriage stability with counselling provisions.
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Manitoba
Province
Alberta
Ontario
NDP
The Olden Days Highlights From Shellmouth and Surroundings
A chronology of local notes from 1908 to 1968 covers new voter lists for Shellmouth, Russell school openings, a Portage telephone exchange contract worth about $8000, a Main Street garage project, grain buying trips, a Makaroff School visit, a suicide death in Vancouver formerly linked to a local law firm, a dietician appointment in Tranquille, road improvements at Millwood, and a bumper mushroom season led by a 12 pound puffball found near Inglis.
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Snyder Bros
Portage
Russell
D. Sparrow
Main and
D'Arcy Street
Letter To The Mayor From Chelsey Ontario Guests
A couple from Chelsey Ontario thanks the Town of Russell for a clean camping site during a Monday night stay praising its cleanliness on their Alaska trip return. They sign as Mr. and Mrs. Thompson.
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Russell
Alaska
Manitoba inmates must earn sentence remission under new rules
Inmates of Manitoba adult correctional institutions must earn all remission time under new procedures announced by Corrections Minister Bud Sherman. Effective July 1, one day of remission is earned for every two days served, replacing prior automatic remission and routine good behavior credits.
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Manitoba
Bud Sherman
Imates
Sherman
Autumn Dawn in a Rural Weekly Print
A nostalgic rural weekly notes August signaling autumn while lamenting missed summer weather. editor Rusty Manning steers the Reston Recorder, now in its 74th year, continuing Manning’s long family tradition.
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Cady
Rusty Manning
Reston Recorder
Manning
Wheat board sets opening quotas for 1878 79
The Canadian Wheat Board announces opening quotas for wheat barley and non board grains for the 1878 79 crop year with August 21 effective dates. Quotas include No CW and No 2 CW Hard Red Spring wheat and No 3 CW on West Coast blocks, barley in eight Northern Saskatchewan blocks, Canada Western Red Winter, Soft White Spring, rapeseed flax and rye. Off board and crusher quotas set to manage elevator space. additional non board quotas to be announced as space allows.
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Canadian Wheat Board
C.W
Saskatchewan
Churchill
Canada
Otto Lang
Wheat Board
Country Association
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Russell Banner
Main Street
Russell, Manitoba
Cenay
United States
Chaloner Publishers
Clayton G. Chaloner
By Ben Kroeker
Cable Corner
Ureg
Saudi Arabia
Hhope
Bill Smiley
Jack Hodgins
Paul St. Pierre
W.O. Mitchell
Robert Kroetsch
Rudy Wiebe
Margaret Laurence
Morleyllaghan
Hugh Maclennan
Alice Munroe
Margaret Atwood
Marian Engel Bear
Quebec
Mordechai Richler
Marie-Claire Blais
Roc Carrier
Yves Therriault
Ernest Buckler
Alden Nowlan
Ray Guy
Figs
Teres
Boarsially
Governent
Gerry Mercier
Shellmouth
Ney
McLean
Lawson
Kelso
Elliott
Bud Glasman
Bredenburg
Jas. Cameron
Makaroff Consolidated School
Hugh Cameron
Robert Thomson
Vancouver
Thomson
Glen and Thomson
Pacific Coast
Betty Hancock
Tranquille
B.C
W. Hancock
Millwood
Ted Carpenter
L.A. Kirk Farm
Inglis
I and
Mrs. Thompson
Chelsey, Ontario
Reggies
Pany
Confucius
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