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MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Crown Services Minister Jeff Wharton announced Friday that the province is preparing an RFP and plans to post it in late spring or early summer so that it can provide "broadband availability in rural and northern communities by making use of the vast fibre-optic network that Manitobans have already built, but is almost entirely unused, or ‘dark’." 200515 - Friday, May 15, 2020.