Winnipeg Capital Region Winnipeg Capital Region The Winnipeg Capital Region is a metropolitan area located in the Red River Valley in the south central portion of the province of Manitoba, Canada. It contains the provincial capital of Winnipeg and its surrounding rural municipalities, cities, and towns. It was created to co-ordinate land use policy and economic development between the City of Winnipeg and the surrounding municipalities. It is the most densely populated and economically important area of Manitoba. Other communities with over 1,000 population in the region besides Winnipeg are the city of Selkirk and towns of Oakbank, Stonewall, Stony Mountain, Teulon, Lorette
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