Daphne Bramham: Government must step up to save rural Canada

Once upon a time, governments stepped in to fill gaping holes in services deemed essential to citizens.
It’s how we started out. The government called it nation building and paid for a railway that connected East to West. Various provincial governments set up companies to provide electricity, telephones, television, insurance and buses.
Except for the vestigial companies, those days seem to be gone as politicians run for cover after Greyhound’s announcement that it is pulling out of