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By: Mary Agnes Welch

Posted: 06/13/2008 3:54 PM | Comments: 0 (including replies)

Here's a little zinger tucked into Culture and Heritage Minister Eric Robinson's speech yesterday about the residential schools apology - an insider reference for all you media junkies."Yesterday morning I heard a media personality here in Winnipeg question whether an apology was necessary. Excuse me, but it's the survivors who decide what's appropriate here and now, not those who believe they know what's best, because it's that kind of thinking that spawned the residential school system in the first place."

Mary Agnes Welch, Winnipeg Free Press

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About Mary Agnes Welch

Mary Agnes Welch joined the Free Press in 2002, first as a general assignment reporter and then covering city hall and the Manitoba legislature before moving to her current post as public policy reporter. Before Winnipeg, she worked at the Windsor Star and the Odessa American, a small daily newspaper in West Texas. There, in addition to covering more than 20 counties, she took high school football scores from coaches all over West Texas by phone every Friday night. Mary Agnes is a graduate of Columbia University’s journalism school, has won several Western Ontario Newspaper Awards and has been part of two teams of reporters nominated for a Michener Award. In 2011, she was nominated for a National Newspaper Award in the beat category. She is also the former national president of the Canadian Association of Journalists. She once misspelled "Shih Tzu" in the paper and received 37 emails from angry dog-owners.

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