Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 17, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Faculty fears cutbacks by Manfred Jager the chairman of the Manitoba organization of faculty associations said yesterday his group is worried that last weeks Federal budget May result in provincial funding reductions to Post secondary Ken a history professor at the University of said the organization remains concerned about possible funding cuts despite indications that Overall Federal Transfer payments to Manitoba wont be drastically we cant be sure until the full budgetary information is but based on what we now there should be As much Money coming into the province As last so there should be no reason to Cut Back at All in pos secondary education or health sex Stone bit it Means we have to watch the provincial government very carefully to be sure they wont use the shifting categories in Federal Transfer pay ments As an excuse to Cut Back on expenditures in there have been problems Over Edu cation funding by the province in the past and that Why were a bit suspicious and feel there ought to be vigilance on the part of colleges and the provinces pos Sec Mondary budget increased per cent and universities received per cent More Stone that was but the funding Levels for universities during the first three years of the Lyon government were so Low that last years generosity merely helped universities catch Arnold University of Manitoba said he is concerned that the province As a whole might not have As much Money Avail Able As it had under the former a and therefore All sectors of the provincial Economy May feel the it will Cost about million this year to operate Manitoba universities and Community with the University of Manitoba operating on a up from Mil lion last Naimark said next years budget forecasts forwarded to the govern ments universities Grants commission earlier this fall predict spending in creases in the neighbourhood of per we reckon wended about per cent More Money next year just to stand Naimark that is taking into account Cost Sal Ary but also urgently needed program expansions such As in computer administrative and to take care of eight percent surge in enrol Price put on Road by Ron Campbell the unfettered and untaxed right of religious groups to put up buildings Cost the City last year for an Access Road to serve two new churches outside the perimeter civic Ter Day Astefa City officials to come up with ways to control construction of religious buildings in the additional Rural agricultural land outside the but under the cites but councillors rejected a request by Assiniboine Par fort Garry comm where the two churches Are to make such buildings a conditional this would mean a Public hearing and City approval before a building permit could be no property taxes the problem is that religious institutions pay no property taxes and now have the unfettered right to build on a serviced Rural land in the additional Jim Moore told the committee that and Friend ship Baptist Church had built South West of the perimeter in his requiring the City to spend to put in an Access although the two churches Are the Only properties which front on the gravel route called Rokeby the City cannot impose a local improvement Levy on As it would for other in an Moore said the two churches paid for sewer and water hookups Rocity but the City has to pay for maintaining and Sno Clearing the Access i think the Public should have an Opportunity to have input on any whether it be Home occupy he Moore said he Only became aware that the City could not recoup its costs after the Road contract coun Alf who sat on works and operations committee when it approved the contract last he1 was unaware of the situation at the when such a thing there is something wrong with the Skowron Gerry Cairns Winnipeg free press Winnipeg free november 1981 3 Metis Leader Don Milvor talks during ceremonies at graveside of Louis Riel natives fire on Ottawa in of parking reps death by Ritchie Gage native indians Are fast becoming refugees in a bitter native Leader told a Winnipeg memorial ser vice for executed Metis Leader Louis Riel Audreen Vic president of the native Council of criticized the recent charter of rights proposal approved by Ottawa and nine provincial premiers As a denial of native she said the govern ments conspired against natives by scrapping original guarantees of aboriginal and treaty Hourie spoke to about 50 people who attended a graveside memorial service at St Boniface Basilica to Mark the 96th anniversary of riels charges of present the ceremony were Don president of the Manitoba Metis and Joe pres ident of Lunion nation ale de about 25 Grade 5 children from glad Stone elementary school attended the ceremony As part of a history lesson on Hourie said native people Are Organ izing to Deal with what they consider Jim free press the highest insult that Canada could possibly deliver to them scrapping their rights under the she said the Metis people have never been Given credit for bringing Manitoba into confederation in o strength of people we trusted the Canadian govern ment at that but it is impossible for us to Trust them she we have Only the strength of our own people to ensure that Justice is and it is that strength and courage that i am calling on Hourie called parliaments action in failing to include native rights in the Constitution a treacherous act of our she said that native people have the right to defend themselves against jaws which Are unjust and unreason it is not right that the native peo Ples in Canada should suffer for the Benefit of we Are fast become refugees in our own Riel brought Manitoba into confederation on the Issue of land ownership for she adding that the conservative government of sir John Macdonald later opened the door to land speculators and corrupt govern ment Riel was an my in 1873 and 1874 for the District of expelled from the House of commons in exiled from Canada for five years by he later spent two years in Quebec mental institutions before marrying in the United states and settling Down to teach at a Jesuit Mission in Mon he arrived Back in Canada in 1884 on invitation from settlers and Metis to Lead a protest against Ottawa indifference to Western he formed a provisional government in Manitoba in 1885 and tried to gain support from indians in the he was Defeated by government forces at the Battle of Batoche and was hanged in Regina in 1885 after a trial for Ottawa native leaders honoured the memory of Riel As a form of protest Over the exclusion of Indian rights in the Constitution native leaders Laid a Wreath at the conference scene of the constitutional rights group clears Foreman of accusations by Cecil Rosner a Canadian National railways fore Man who told workers they were living like pigs and dogs was cleared of discrimination charges yesterday be cause he didst single out native peo the Canadian human rights com Mission has Sally spokesman for the commission in said in an interview yesterday that complaints of racial discrimination from 22 native workers against the car have been the charges were lodged in the workers were among a group of 28 Indian and Metis labourers who walked off their summer jobs on a car work gang in ochre River near Dauphin in they complained of bad working conditions and said management was verbally abusing and discriminating against them because they were but Jackson said an investigation into the charges showed no basis for the she said the work gang John admitted he had called together the workers at one Point and dressed them Down of dirty conditions on a although he Brothers shortage critical big Brothers of Winnipeg have a critical waiting the groups Public relations director said yester Gordon Summers told a vital recruitment meeting last night that 350 fatherless boys in the City Are waiting to be paired with big a wait which could last a Winnipeg has the second largest big Brothers Agency in Canada after to with about 400 volunteers help ing Young but Summers said the needs still boys aged six to who have no immediate influence such As a older brother or close Are eligible for a big we Are but to provide a Friendship for a boy with a mature adult said caseworker George a big brother spends about three or four hours a week with a he is encouraged to involve the boy in casual such As going to the hard Ware store or washing the As Well As in developmental such As playing catch or going to a a boy who has no male figure in his family needs someone to fill the and his Mother May also be suffering from the trauma of a divorce or a and cannot give the boy the attention and affection he the organization asks for at least a two year commitment by the big Broth seeing a boy once a week Over two years can have amazing Roy he said he Point a boys Good qualities and say the big brother was directly but he did say that More fatherless boys with big Brothers stay in school and out of trouble than those Bridge crash Winnipeg firefighters had to Hose Down gasoline spilled on the Louise Bridge at Higgins Avenue at 1224 pm when a halt on True i went out of overturned police reported no serious injuries in the Iak Al admitted telling them they were Liv ing like pigs and he said head dressed the comments the entire group of White and native labourers and did not single out anyone by Jackson said the commission could find no evidence of charges that the native labourers were constantly threatened with dismissal because of their the workers who staged the walk which was accompanied by subsequent demonstrations and track occupations in complained about filthy conditions on the train where they worked for 15day they said the was cars for labourers were poorly maintained and at one Point there was just one toilet available for 70 at the car officials agreed that toilets on the train had not been fully drinking water on the train was making Many workers sick and sleeping quarters were invade the men they also said kit Ella continually abused them and carried around a Large stick to enforce his they demanded that he be Ferdinand Vic president of the Manitoba Metis federation and a spokesman for the native said a meeting will be held later this week to determine the groups response to the human rights commission Gui Boche said All the workers who walked off their jobs got replacement summer positions following negotiations Between the labourers and the earlier this Federal labor department officials investigated the car work gang and found a number of health and safety they asked the railway to Correct the City fails to attract meeting by Ron Campbell an estimated million was lost to Winnipeg last week when delegates to the 36th Jaycees International Conven Tion in Berlin voted to hold its 1983 annual meeting in rather than mayor Bill part of a 40mem ber Canadian More than half of whom were said yesterday he suspects there was vote trading among delegation chiefs who voted on the the and asian nations were heavily a candidate for president of the organization was elected Over a third world candidate and Norrie suspected some asians May have traded their votes for american support on the 1983 convention individual delegations told the Cana Dian team they very much wanted to come to Canada for the 38th convention in Norrie because Osaka in Japan and Manila in the Philippines have been the convention Sites in re cent years and Seoul has it next delegates but out of about delegates in Only the delegation chiefs could vote on the but Norrie said the canadians worked Ca Cusing at 7 each Day Nome said the 1983 convention will be held in Taipei grand even though we obviously had the Best the mayor said Dan executive director of Jaycees of Coral said the Winnipeg convention Centre was the Best anywhere in the world for the organizations Norrie said it Cost about to Send him on the on week trip to Berlin to try and get the convention Charity Selling Art calendars the childrens Hospital research foundation is Selling calendars this year As Paw of its annual fundraising started in the Appeal seeks to raise in 1981 through direct mail requests and Calendar last years direct mail Campaign raised for paediatric the featuring drawings by Winnipeg artist Alexander will be available at retail and other outlets for the foundation has Given in Grants to researchers this ;