Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 6, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday March 6, 1972 Bench takes to French by Joseph Macsween Esterel que. Up the students sauntered out of class bantering and moshing As students will. Casually at tired in the with it Way they nevertheless looked a trifle a Beard in the Bunch for instance. French is coming out my announced or. Justice Gregory t. Evans 58, of the Ontario court of appeals get Ting to the heart of the matter quickly. Some 45 judges ranging in age from the 40s to the Early 70s were completing a two week French immersion course part of a continuing program that began three years ago. Representing various Levels of the judiciary in seven prov inces and the Federal sphere the judges left their Robes at Montreal Trust guaranteed investment certificates 5 year term minimum Deposit rate subject to change without notice. Contact Jack Allston Montreal Trust 213 notre ave. Just off Portage ave 943-0451 Home and submitted to t o be of an age with their own offspring or younger. You pay More attention to other Young people than you do to your own confided one judge. Something like a Mutual admiration society emerged from separate interviews with jurists and generation Gap apparently being a Happy Factor in this Case facilitating Exchange across linguistic and cultural lines. There May have been some Donnas among the judges in the Early stages of the program but not any longer said or. Justice Evans a Blithe spirit who combined study and serious thought with laughter. He declared i m not reticent. I talk a lot. Two languages Are useful to a fellow like me. I have been willing to try to barrel along in French Ever since i was brought up in Madani . I m not prepared to admit that the Anglo saxons Irish Stupi Der than the others. We can be bilingual and multilingual. We must get some under Stai iding in Canada and appreciation of the problems facing the linguistic or. Justice Evans and his colleagues from British Columbia to Nova Scotia con ceded that the immersion course was Tough even when conducted in this idyllic Laurentian setting in a resort hotel. Classes began daily at a.m., two profess eurs being assigned to each study group of 10 or less. Moni tors took Over from proves Sears to keep the students speaking French in lunch Din Ner and evening discourse sometimes with humorous re sults. One judge solemnly ordered Omelette Aux neck tie Melet for lunch when he meant Omelette Aux Prev shrimp Melet. This was the first time the judges came to Esterel some 60 Miles from Montreal. Ear Lier weeks each july two each january conducted in the Quebec City and Hull areas. Prince Edward Island Newfoundland and Quebec had no representatives a t Esterel. Manitoba had one or. Justice g. C. Hall and the other provinces two or More on Tario having 20 and British Columbia eight. There were also a Justice from the fed eral court of Canada the for Mer exchequer court and a few High ranking civil serv ants. Each year new judges join the program so that Esterel s s t u d e n t s were at various stages of Progress. Officials said the Federal government bears All costs while the judges sacrifice part of their vacation and also make up time lost from work. Why do the jurists come my motivation is said judge b. C. Whittaker of peace officers return Sheridan 1 a convenience and Beauty with Sheridan Side sliders More features than we have space to Tell about them but Here goes anyway did you Ever wonder about the safety of your windows a Sheridan Slider not Only locks securely against entry but even More important a Sheridan Slider makes a perfect escape route in Case of fire. Now consider convenience. They never need painting and Glide open at a touch also Sheridan sliders let in More Light. Beauty Speaks for itself. Call today for a free Home demonstration. Dress Yew Zimm m99f Montreal up Quebec peace officers including jail guards returned to work Satur Day after voting Friday to end a month Long walkout. The. Return conies without a settlement of their nine month contract Dis Pute with the government. The provincial peace officers association began the walkout feb. 5 to Back salary demands and to protest lagging negotiations. However Union leaders said the Back to work vote does not mean members have accepted the. Government s latest salary offer and conditions. Negotiations Are to resum this week. The association represent the guards autoroute police game wardens and government building guards whose contract with the government expired last july. The walkout forced the Clos ing of 22 of the province s 35 prisons and disrupted court hearings because prisoners could not be transported from prisons to courthouses. About prisoners were transferred to Federal institutions and the 13 remaining pro v i n c i a 1 jails which were manned by supervisory person Nel. The association has demanded wage parity with Federal prison guards who earn a year after eight years ser vice. A government offer of be reached at the end of a three year rejected by the peace officers who now earn after eight years. Union leaders also rejected a tentative agreement reached Between government and Union negotiators feb. 24. The lengthy dispute has been marked by study sessions court disruptions pickets prison occupations and work to Rule campaigns by association members. Prior to the walkout six provincial prisons including Mon Treal s Bordeaux jail were occupied for 18 hours by prison guards. No incidents were re ported. The men ended the sit in after Quebec Justice minister Jerome Choquette promised contract negotiations would re sume. The occupations were Fol Lowed by a mass study session l in Drummondville 75 Miles East of Montreal where 300 members voted to Call a walk out and urged All guards to leave their posts. The walkout spread across the province leaving the prisons in the hands of supervisory personnel and severely restrict ing visiting privileges and Pris Oner activity. 9w Ysora fore o Sheridan door be Csc acc Way Ono of for for in of four Eva Dotti 452-2805 ferrets Imrit a setts fed Park Issue red herring Edmonton up the foreign investment Issue Sor j rounding plans for a resort development at Lake Louise in Banff National Park j is red Premier j Peter Lougheed said today. J or. Lougheed told a news i conference the controversy Over j the proposed development is be Tureen conservationists and rec i creationists. The foreign invest sent mat Ter is a red herring. I Don t see j it As the i the resort planned by Vii Lac like Len Rise Ltd. And in a i penal Oil Ltd., has been Cri ii ired by economic nationalists i say it is a seb Ost to foreign because Impe rial of is a ;