Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 26, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2 Winnipeg free november Indian youths outline faults i of Foster Homes by Greg Bannister Winnipeg free press Roseau River Reserve disadvantages outweigh the benefits of placements in White Foster in Dian youths yesterday told a provincial inquiry into native i had a hard time living in White said Muriel a Grade 11 student in a Reserve i had a lot of you dont realize what it is to be Art Indian until you Are in White society and everyone treats you lonely for who was placed in a series of White Foster Homes in Selkirk and Winnipeg beginning almost four years returned last year to this ojibway Reserve 90 Kilometres South of Winni Peg to live with her she was one of several Young peo ple to give evidence yesterday at the inquiry headed by senior family court judge Edwin Hydro rates lowest Survey a Survey of 60 major utilities in 12 countries has found that Manitoba Hydro offers the lowest electricity costs to commercial and Industrial the Survey was conducted by the British Trade Magazine electrical re according to a statement from Manitoba it compared costs based on a customer owning his own transformer and using kilowatts and kilowatt hours a customer in Manitoba would pay cents per while the next lowest Price offered by a Utility in the Survey was trans Alta utilities of Alberta with cents on april 1 this consolidated Edison of new York charged the highest Cost cents on april 1 last year and cents on the same Day this the highest Cost for a Canadian Utility was cents by the maritime electric in the Survey found average electricity costs Rose per cent in Canada Between april 1981 and april a five year freeze on Manitoba Hydro rates was announced in but the province will reassess it next year to see whether it should the judge was appointed by the province in april to examine native adoptions after it was disclosed that More that half the native children being put up for adoption in Manitoba were being sent to predominantly White Homes in the United my first Foster parents were very Nice but 1 was so lonely arty real Smith told the she said he first Foster where she was placed with her younger was with a White farm family on the out skirts of we were very much alone and said she said she was then placed in a Norbert group Home with former drug addicts and she said she ran away after one a White social worker convinced her to live in her there were too Many they were harder on us than they were on their own they often let us visit our parents on the re she said of her time in the social workers John James another recent Lyre turned Reserve told the in Quiry he also experienced Many prob lems during the year he and his two younger Brothers were placed in White Foster Homes in is now living on family and is attending High treated differently we were treated differently from All the other my Brothers were always picked on and i help James told the he said in an interview his White Foster parents were kind to him at but their behaviour changed drastically and they frequently drank to James said he was unhappy and had no one to talk and was getting into trouble with the he ran away and returned to the people Here listen and in starting to work put my i came Back also to learn about my to learn about my James Millie a childcare worker Dakota Jibway child and family told the inquiry she has seen Many problems among the native peo ple returning to Roseau River after being raised in White she told of a 30yeardold Man who was taken from the Reserve at birth and placed in a White Foster he returned to the Reserve four years j v 4s Josh s v s v 5 y v i m x t Breezy rider seemingly oblivious to the cold and Lone cyclist cycling enthusiasts will be pleased to learn that warmer pedals Down a stretch of Road near Winter temperatures Are predicted for the labor leaders criticize court ruling on firing by Brian Cable three Manitoba labor leaders have criticized a Federal court of Appeal decision upholding the firing of a Feder Al civil servant for criticizing the governments metrication were very disturbed about the Clint of the Public service Wrilon involved in the said in an inter View Hornby said the court sidestepped the Issue of free speech in unanimously ruling wednesday against Neil a civil servant at Revenue in handing Down its the court said All employees surren Der some rights to continue the applicants undoubted fight to Freedom of speech is not and never has been at stake in these chief Justice Thurlow when a person takes a he necessarily to the extent required by the employment rights or freedoms which he otherwise might exercise and i dont know what country that Justice was talking but it certainly the Canada Dick president of the Manitoba federation of said after hearing the labor has had grave concerns All along about the right to free i support speak out and this decision is a blow tp1 that Gary president Thema Niter a government employees ass Cia also voiced dissatisfaction with the adding he hoped it would be overturned by court of v Hornby said that because employees sign oath of allegiance to the gov the1 Union had no argument Faith disciplinary action against Ern who criticize policy in their own Hornby stressed that of was a reve nue Canada employee who criticized government policy in an de he was speaking out As a free Canadian citizen against an inept and corrupt government he e decision reserved by Glen Mackenzie the provincial Board of reference reserved ruling yesterday on requests from Seine River and fort Garry school divisions for each increase its tax coffers at the expense of the Seine River division proposed that the perimeter Highway be the Boundary Between the but that a commercial Are including the United Grain growers the Mani Toba wheat Pool seed Plant and the Superior propane Plant North of the should stay the current Boundary lies mostly South of the perimeter and was established before the Highway was the major residential prize at stake is about 25 Homes on Turnbull from which 17 students go to Seine River division schools and nine to fort Garry about half a dozen residents showed up at yesterdays reference Board meeting at Norbert collegiate to say they want to stay with fort Garry because they believe it has better qual Ity Andre Seine River Secre said in an interview that if his divisions i accept Seine River would gain Worth of assessed property and give up a net gain of with a Mill rate of this would add about a year to the Divi Sions tax Craig fort Garry division said in an inter View his division proposed 28 that the status quo be except that Worth of property in the country knolls estates condominium development and in the forr Richmond West subdivision both of which Are now in Seine River be added to fort this would give fort Garry an extra a year in langs position on Churchill challenged Al 1 by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Thompson every tonne of Grain shipped through the port of Churchill Means Money in the pockets of Western Canadian de executive director of the Churchill develop ment said he was commenting on a statement by Otto former Federal minister responsible for the Canadian wheat to the Union of Manitoba municipalities meeting in now executive Vic president of Pioneer Grain said any Federal investments in port go to terminals at Vancouver and the Lakehead and not he evidently spoke of million being spent at weather this is a Canadian National railways upgrading guest said rail improvements have already been completed at a Cost of the remaining million is earmarked for a Cro Yanchor project being considered which would keep the Muskeg below the track Frozen round 1o counteract guest said that inthe 197778 shipping season figures show that Western for every tonne of wheat shipped through Churchill and on every tonne of since then the Cost of shipping on the Lawrence Seaway has gone up so the advantage to 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