Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 31, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Work and play Workman slides Down Shute used to dump rubble from Sargent Avenue and Kennedy the building was third floor of old apartment building being demolished at vacated some time ago after a Metis irked by losing out on funds Money requested from government allotted to Indian band instead by Paul Moloney after waiting a a Metis group at red sucker Lake has Learned that government funds it requested for an employment project have been awarded instead to the Indian band in the Metis spokesman Fred Disbrowe said the group was turned Down for about needed to build a receiving station to handle fish awaiting shipment to Winnipeg but the band obtained about for the same whose group makes up 10 per cent of the Community of about said the Metis feel the Indian Popula Tion has the inside track on government funding and they Are left to fend for were getting tired of being treated As second class citizens by these government people in he we dont mind them giving All the Money in the world to the but give us something theres friction being caused by this and its going to get he were just fed up with this is something that going to come to a head one of these Disbrowe said he applied in for Money to build the receiving station and upgrade fishing stations on three outlying lakes to prevent spoilage of fish before the flight to Winnipeg for a year the Federal employ ment department returned the application and suggested the group apply for the Money under another employ ment Disbrowe he said the Metis already had applied for the other program and still Are awaiting word on this the group Learned Grants were awarded to the Indian band for one now under and the government will not fund an he said the manner in which the groups applications have been handled leads him to conclude they had Little Chance of Success from the Why it took a year i under it must have been one of those things they tabled and then sent maybe they were cleaning out their desks or Why agree to Send us these application forms when they dont even intend to give us any part of it i spent a lot of Money on phone Calls to find out if they were going to consider these Applina but they dont Tell you these chiefs can go right into Winnipeg to talk to the but we dont have the Money to do these Doug an employment depart ment official who dealt with Dis Browes second said the bands proposal was cheaper because it had lined up 50 per cent of the funds from another government depart the status Indian group had Al ready received funding for the Materi als and we would pay the labor costs of Cable we decided to go ahead with that Cable confirmed the government int interested in funding two fish re ceiling stations at red sucker Lake but suggested the Metis which lives on an Island about a mile could use the bands it would be ridiculous to have two fish Sheds he on the program were looking at value for on the Community its a Case where you have two groups competing to do the same Cable said its up to the people in the not the to make arrangements to share the nobody quarrelling with the need for that infrastructure but local politics enters into it and that has to be worked out Between the two groups said chief Billy a was Given control of the project and the Fisher mens association has had Little input into How it should be built and operate we dont want to discuss anything if that the Way the government wants to run he the chief didst discuss it with he went right Over our free information Likely to Cost plenty Canadas Access of information act safely started to walk july 1 and already it appears to be stumbling in erotic red Freedom of information lation was supposed to give citizens Access to a wide Range of data including product safety environmental Impact Stu opinion polls and consultants certain information is the list of restrictions is Jong and it includes Cabinet ramp data and info obtained from provincial and municipal canadians remember Well the protracted process in getting free Dom of information Laws they also will remember one of the supporters of the Public right to know was Justice minister Mark Macguigan believes the new legislation will open up the govern ments he also says the act will improve in a significant Way Public de Bate on Many since the free flow of information will enable Many groups and individuals in society to be better the minister obviously has not seen the process set up by one government department to meet the requirements of the new on july the department of consumer and corporate affairs circulated communique 39 to All food Foo Trade As consumer associations and food the thrust of the circular was to ask the aforementioned groups their opinions on the Labelling of irradiated foods products subjected to Low level radiation As a Means of killing bacteria and prolonging freshness and shelf consumer affairs made some recommendations and then offered for evaluation four Labelling options for food or ingredients treated with Low level after listing those four of Barry Mihin the department also issued a warning to respondents that the communique would be subject to the provisions of the Access of information if you feel that the comments you Are in constitute confidential please add a note to that the document should a request for information regarding the submissions be you will then receive notice of any intention to disclose these Docu ments and will have an Opportunity to provide reasons which could justify refusing that quite a bureaucratic morass set up just to Clear information about irradiation of when that translates to every government department and every scrap of information it will mean a whole new bureaucracy created to handle the processing of requests for the process simply reinforces the Public perceptions that govern ment departments would be loathe to support and endorse Freedom of canadians seeking the tiniest bit of information will quickly become exasperated while they wait for departments to notify respondents that their information is being there will have to be the Tim consuming process of deciding whether there is Good reason to withhold the by this time the information com missioner surely would become involved in the matter and an Appeal to the Federal court of Canada might be in the process certainly Doest in spire Confidence in the new need cited for Well rounded garbage experts Coplans to phase out 13 trucking positions in Winnipeg Canada needs More Well rounded garbage says a University of Toronto consultant on Landfill we dont have a pure waste disposal expert in one Man because there is no Multi educational approach to the said Phillip we have specialists in Many but we need a course at Canad an universities to bring bits of All the specialists together in one course in future if we Are to solve the waste problems of the next until the expertise is available to come up with sound waste disposal the Only Short term Solu Tion is burying the consultant to the Federal government and the world health or was in Winnipeg for a seminar on waste thirteen Winnipeg employees of Ca Nadian Pacific will lose their jobs As a result of a fall merger Between the Compa nys up express and up transport Divi the workers May be placed in new jobs with other sections of the a up spokesman Winnipeg along with 72 others in Cal Gary and will see their positions phased out starting the most of them members of the brotherhood of airlines and steamship Are administrators and management staff drawn from the two up spokesman Daly de Gagne said there Are 128 people now employed with the two divisions in de Gagne said the decision to reorganize was made to eliminate a Duplica Tion of basically there want enough difference Between the two operations to justify them continuing on separa he both up express and up transport Are general commodity trucking firms with the former handling mainly smaller weather Procci Pililian High or court Low cold from warm from Winnipeg area forecast mainly sunny today and tomorrow with the Chance of an evening High both Days near Low tonight near probability of precipitation is near 10 per cent tonight and Southern Manitoba thundershowers in some localities Friday with temperatures much above variable cloudiness saturday and sunday with temperatures near Normal values of 21 and Northern Manitoba isolated thundershowers and temperatures above Normal scattered showers saturday and sunday with temperatures near Normal values of 17 and Northwestern Ontario thundershowers in some localities Friday and variable cloudiness temperatures much above Normal Friday and a Little above Normal values of 19 and 8 saturday and ear Worms and borers destroy Sweet Corn crop by Jack Francis some Manitoba Farmers Are giving up on this years Sweet Corn crop because of ravaging two kinds of pests Are doing a lot of damage in Sweet said Ken general manager of the Manitoba vegetable producers marketing the ear worm feeds on the silk and damaging the while the Borer feeds All up and Down the weakening the the borers Are prevalent and doing the worst even in Home gardens around Mclean one of our main sources of Sweet Corn for fresh produce a grower in the Carman quit picking in the Middle of his Harvest because up to half of the ears were being downgraded too much for the retail it want Worth it with 50 per cent graded another major in was Able to continue Market ing with very slow and is having a Good he there Are so Many Worms in so Many stands that the usual seasonal flood on to the Market has been keeping prices for growers better than those who can Market Good Grade Sweet Corn Are doing but the major damage will be in the Large quantities of Grain Corn grown for livestock feed and be Moss Lorus Ibn ular styles at 851 is deaths classified death Victoria Vancouver Yellowknife edmonton1 Calgary Saskatoon Regina Winnipeg Thompson Kenoi a Brandon 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