Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 26, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba D Man youths outline faults of Foster Homes by Greg Bannister Winnipeg free press Roseau Mclver Reserve Distad vat Talef 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 an Indian until you Are in White society and everyone treats you fir 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 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 i Breezy rider the judge was appointed by the province in april to examine native adoptions after it was disclosed that More than half the 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 for my Teal Par Smith told the she said her 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 in said she said she was then placed in a Norbert group Home with former drug addicts and she said she ran 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 l v she said of her time in the seemingly oblivious to the cold and a Lone cyclist cycling enthusiasts May be dismayed to learn that social workers a pedals Down a stretch of Road near Winter so ably cold weather will continue today and John James another rep Tyre 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 the Reserve with a 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 out my i came Back also to learn about my to learn about my James Millie a childcare worker with Dakota ojibway child and family told the inquiry she has seen Rani 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 labor leaders criticize court ruling on firing by Brian Cole 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 program were very disturbed about the Clint of the Public service the Union involved in the dispute said in an inter View s Hornby said the court sidestepped the Issue of free speech in unanimously ruling wednesday against Nell a civil servant at Revenue in handing Down its the court said All employees must surren Der some rights to continue the applicants undoubted right to Freedom of speech is not and never has been at stake in these chief Justice Thurlow when a person takes a he necessarily tothe extent required by the rights or freedoms which he otherwise might exercise and i dont know what country that Justice was talking but it certainly int the Canada i Dick president of the Manitoba federation of said after hearing the labor has had grave concerns All along about the employees right to free i support the right to speak out and this decision is a blow to that he Gary president of the Manitoba government employees Assoc a also voiced dissatisfaction with the adding he hoped it would be overturned by the supreme court of Hornby said that because employees sign an oath of allegiance to the gov the Union had no argument with disciplinary action against pm who criticize policy in their own Hornby stressed that of was a reve nue Canada employee who criticized government policy in an unrelated de he was speaking out As a free Canadian citizen against an inept and corrupt he Boundary change decision reserved by Glen Mackenzie the provincial Board of reference reserved ruling yesterday on requests from and fort Garry school divisions for each to 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 area including the United Grain growers the Mani Toba wheat Pool seed Plant and the Superior propane Plant North of the should stay with Seine 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 proposal is accept Seine River would gain Worth of assessed property and give up a net gain with a Mill rate of this would add about a year to dive 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 fort 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 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 development should go to terminals at Vancouver and the Lakehead and not he evidently spoke of million being spent at guest this is a Canadian National railways upgrading guest said Raif improvements have already been completed at a Cost of the remaining million is earmarked for a Cha Yanchor project being considered which would keep the of Muskeg below the track Frozen year round to counteract guest said that in the 197778 shipping season figures show that Western Farmers saved 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 the Western producers shipping through Churchill is even guest give yourself and your family a merry Xmas weather City Calendar the Manitoba wheelchair sports and recreation association will celebrate its 20th anniversary at today at the Kildonan Canoe All past presidents will be honoured and pan am athletes will be Given achievement our mistake Winnipeg area forecast mainly sunny today with a High near occasional Cloudy periods tonight with brisk southerly winds and a Low near variable cloudiness tomorrow with brisk South winds and a High 5 to probability of precipitation is Zero per cent today and 20 per cent extended Outlook Southern Manitoba variable cloudiness with occasional flurries monday and temperatures near Normal readings of 4 and Northern Manitoba Cloudy with flurries monday and temperatures near Normal readings of 11 and falling below Normal by Northwestern Ontario variable cloudiness with occasional flurries monday and temperatures above 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