Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 22, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free March 1980 hit women fight plan to give control to provinces Wofton a Fern Ulm Phi Zarifi Nunn Raiff if i women groups across Canada plan lobby proposed constitutional change that could make it easier for divorced men to evade so Manitoba is the Only Provin Cial government which supports their position that divorce should remain a Federal matter and not be transferred to the Winnipeg lawyer Myrna Bowman told a news conference yesterday that a woman legally separated from her husband has great difficulty enforcing a provincial maintenance or custody order if her husband moves to another an 1979 report by the National Council on titled women and mid More than half the court ordered support pay ments Are never enforcement easier but the divorce act is Federal so an order issued under it is much easier for a divorced woman to she she said representatives at a conference of first ministers on constitutional change in 1979 reached almost unanimous agreement that marriage and divorce should be a provincial the change was proposed by Theisen Federal Liberal government and came near the end of the it didst become Well known at the Bowman but if the change is implemented problems faced by separated women would plague divorced women As she Bowman also predicted Rich men would engage in jurisdiction shop into prizewinning Art Cage a soapstone Carv ing by Leo Thompson of took second by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Lynn Lake it could Only happen in Northern an age old form of Art surfaced Dur ing the fourth annual Northern juried arts show Here recently when a bitten Birc bark Wall hanging won first prize in the shows handicrafts Angelique who lives with her husband on an Island in Beaver Lake about 50 Kilometres West of flin entered the Birc bark Handi Craft which she patterns by imprinting a design with her this form of traditional Indian Art is said to be dying out and is Practised Only in the Beaver Lake Pelican Nar Row Sandy Bay area along the Manito a Saskatchewan Eva director of the flin flon Indian Friendship says Birch bark has to be gathered at certain times of the preferably Spring when it is moist and has a supple Quality which makes it easier to folds bark she says Merasty often folds the bark eight times As she works her when she opens it up she has a perfect picture of Moose added that Merasty had Learned the Art from her Mother and is trying to interest Young Indian children in the Craft without some older women Are interested in learning the Art but have a problem they have false Moose false Teeth a problem Merasty tells us you need your own Teeth to have the sensitivity to do the Sam a trapper from to Doule Lake about Kilometres Northeast of took top honors in the shows sculpture who Learned his Craft Dur ing the past four years after the to Doule Lake band moved from Churchill to the wilderness took top prize with a soapstone carving of a charging Annette Kirby won the painting Sec and Joanne Wright the top award for drawing and print first prize in the pottery and ceramics Section went to Susan and Evelyn Bellingham won the photography Ping by moving to a province where the Law is most favourable to them because divorce Laws prov inces would inevitably be but the quickie divorce system of states such As Nevada or Mexico come about in Canada be cause the Federal level would still set residence she said Manitoba opposed Bowman said the Only province at the meeting which favored retaining Federal control Over divorce was but even Manitoba still favors provincial jurisdiction for prop erty division in family Law she Bowman said she attributes actor Ney general Gerry Merciers support for Federal control of divorce Law to his having received a Liberal Edu cation on family Law matters in Mani Georgia Cordes of the Winnipeg said she has found Mercier very understanding on the she also said the attorney general wants to talk to representatives in other prov women group representatives have also met with Lloyd Federal minister responsible for the status of Cordes said the fort Garry my also had a Good understanding of the problem and had promised to talk to Justice minister Jean at the news conference Bowman represented the Manitoba bar associations family Law other groups represented included the coalition on family Manitoba action committee on the status of women and provincial Council of women of in a joint the groups said they would lobby against the proposed change across the country and urge the Public to do the the statement said the constitutional proposal is based on the notion prov inces should control their social Des because marriage and divorce Laws intimately affect the average Citi Zens the notion is that such Laws Are within a provinces jurisdiction to closely reflect the local social fab lawyer Myrna Bowman says women will suffer if Ottawa hands Over the jurisdiction for divorces to the City Calendar anti apartheid group plans films the Manitoba anti apartheid coalition will present two films South Africa the nuclear file and generations of resistance from 2 to 5 today in the University of Winnipeg Lockhart Hall admission is Inkster school will present two musicals the Rabbit who wanted the red wings and Oliver to begin at 7 March 26 and 27 in the school 633 Inkster River House alumni will Mark its 5th anniversary with a Reua Fai 17 and write the 588 River r3l a seminar on ready for the presented by Winnipeg chapters of Beta Sigma will begin with registration at today in the University of Manitoba because Jour University weather deep foe26 the Pakistan cultural and social society will present a feature film entitled Daman aur Chingari at 7 Oclock tonight at tache University of Peter an authority on human rights in the soviet will lecture on political psychiatry at tuesday at the health sciences Centre and 8 March 26 in the planetarium auditorium human rights in the soviet Union at tuesday in 200 Fletcher University of and at wednesday at Sisler High his visit is sponsored by the Winnipeg group of amnesty International and the faculty of arts at the University of Elisabeth missionary writer and conference lecture will speak at a Fellowship dinner sponsored by Winkler Bible Institute alumni association at March 29 at the institutes Jubilee auditorium at tickets Are available at the Fellowship 302 Kennedy j Andrew of visiting fellow at the boys town Centre for the study of youth development will speak on to effects and children under standing of typical programs at thursday in theatre University of Winnipeg Centennial roman Baran is pleased to announce his association with Alex Feder in the practice of general dentistry at 4o1 Boyd 388 Portage by Only 9427531 leaking cracked basement Walls repaired from the inside three step method used All work guaranteed for a quotation Call George Dalglish building services 669627o our mistake Sangster and Young Mefir wish to announce that effective april 1980 they Are relocating their offices to 2385 Pembina Telephone 2619451 24 hour answering service increasing Cloud Winnipeg area forecast mainly sunny today with a High near increasing Cloud tonight with a Low near mainly Cloudy tomorrow with occasional Light Snow and a High near extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba mainly sunny sunday and monday Cloudy temperatures near Northern Manitoba mainly sunny Northwestern Ontario mainly sunny sunday through tues temperatures near temperatures Canada and world a March 15 Story in the free press about the sentence of three Canadian forces privates charged in a rape Case said wrongly that the victim knew the three in she Linew Only one of having dated him she was attacked during a ride to a friends House last november after a meeting at cab it it it a Story yesterday said wrongly that the 42 employees Laid off by Eaton in february were mainly sales in the employees were mainly maintenance trades pm it it it a Story tuesday said wrongly that hockey player Robert Marvin Bobby hulls ranch was at Man hulls ranch is at Elm announces the opening of his general and family practice at the Broadway professional 640 Broadway on March 1980 Telephone 7742807 estate auction instructed by the trustees we shall sell by Public auction very Fine River Heights estate of highest Quality consisting of 135 lots at deaths classified death National Vancouver Calo Arv Edmonton Regina Kenora Brandon Dauphin Thunder Bay Toronto Ottawa Montreal Halifax International Chicano Minneapolis Mew York Boston Amsterdam Athens Berlin Helsinki Lisbon London Madrid Moscow 11 n 4 2 0 41 2 2 i 7 2 u 6 3 16 ii 5 1 2 1 17 5 1 0 7 0 5 6 2 3 9 6 15 7 0 14 1 i Tel Aviv resort los air Las Clear Clear air 19 19 21 22 21 Tair j9 fair 27 22 28 partly 30 partly Cox Xuy 29 air 30 10 13 16 16 25 22 24 15 18 23 22 20 Limm mean mar 2 26 153 90 last 05 38 121 47 an by corf in 1938 an in 1193 total for 1 to March 21 Millimetres Normal no 6 of de 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