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 In 1937, smarting from the coverage he and his political
party were receiving from Alberta’s newspapers, Premier William Aberhart
attempted to pass into law an act that would change the complexion of how
reporting would be conducted in the province.
The Accurate News and Information Act would require
newspapers to identify their sources of information, as well as publish
stories favourable to the Social Credit government. Predictably, the
response from newspapers was highly opinionated, given that the function of
the proposed act violated the very tenets of sound journalism in a free
society.
This proposed act, in addition to two others concerning
banks and credit, would not be given assent by Alberta’s
lieutenant-governor, and sparked a challenge to the British North
America Act in the Supreme Court of Canada.
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