Winnipeg (provincial electoral district) Winnipeg (provincial electoral district) Winnipeg was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of Manitoba, which was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. Consisting of the city of Winnipeg, the district originally existed from 1870 to 1883, returning a single member to the assembly. The district was named Winnipeg and St. John for the election of 1870 only, and Winnipeg thereafter. In 1883, it was divided into the new districts of Winnipeg North and Winnipeg South; a third district of Winnipeg Centre was created in 1888. In 1920, the district was reconstituted as a multiple member district, which
Capital Cities Communications Inc v Canadian Radio-Television Commission Capital Cities Communications Inc v Canadian Radio-Television Commission Capital Cities Communications v. CRTC (1977), [1978] 2 S.C.R. 141 is a Supreme Court of Canada decision on the legislative jurisdiction of cable television. Chief Justice Laskin, writing for the majority of the Court, held that all television, even where exclusively produced and distributed within the province, fell within the definition of a federal undertaking under section 92(10)(a) of the "Constitution Act, 1867". Rogers Cable provided a subscription service for American television programs. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), a federal regulatory agency, required television broadcasters such as Rogers to remove