Manitoba Progressive Conservatives ‘pulling out stops’ with attack ads: analys

By Brittany Hobson and Steve Lambert THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG -Manitoba’s Progressive Conservatives are continuing to be dogged by mounting disapproval for taking out billboard and newspaper ads that highlights the province’s decision not to search a landfill for the remains of two First Nations women. A stand-alone digital ad went up in Winnipeg that touts the Tories’ position against searching the Prairie Green Landfill for the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran because of safety concerns. The ad reads, “Stand firm against the unsafe $184-million landfill dig.” The party also took out a full-page ad in the Winnipeg Free Press on Saturday that featured the governing Progressive Conservatives’ promises, and included similar language on their decision to not search the landfill. The families of Myran and Harris, along with…

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