Some Manitobans will be missing out on their local community news due to a recent labour dispute at Canada Post.

As of Monday morning, workers have stopped delivering unaddressed mail — what the Crown corporation calls “neighbourhood mail.” That designation also includes flyers, coupons, and unaddressed publications like magazines and community newspapers.

Mark Buss, president of the Manitoba Community Newspaper Association (MCNA), as well as Clipper Press in Beausejour, says the action means around 3,000 readers in the rural municipalities of Brokenhead and Springfield won’t be receiving their regular copies of their local papers.

“It’s embarrassing, really… to consider us being advertising and whatnot,” Buss told 680 CJOB’s The Start .

“For what we do, keeping people informed as t

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