Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 31, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba I Winnipeg fret August station episode riles Metis stir to outlying lakes to prevent spoilage of fish Terete the flight the 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 said he said the Metis already had applied for the is have been handled leads him to conclude they had Little Chance of Success from the Why it took a year i under to must Nave been one of those things they tabled and then sent maybe they were cleaning out their desks or Paul Mooney waiting a a Metis group sucker Lake has Learned that funds it requested for an a torment project have been to the Indian band in the Letis spokesman Fred Disbrowe the group was turned Down for it needed to build a receive station to handle fish awaiting shipment to Winnipeg but the band attained about for the same whose group makes up 10 per cent of the Community of about said the Metis feel the Indian Tion has the inside track on funding and they Are left to fend for were getting tired of being treated t t As second class citizens by these gov f2f f 1 to Hift summent people in he it us dont mind them giving All the x Money in the world to the but give us something treated As second class citizens by these government people in win theres friction being caused by this and its going to 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 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 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 parents win Battle for French program French immersion parents have won a Long struggle in one school and May get what they want in an Lorraine Stein of Swan River said yesterday the Swan Valley school Board voted monday to move the immersion program into Swan the Board set it up last year in Birch about 40 Kilometres North of Swan where none of the 21 kindergarten and Grade 1 students registered for it said the program will oper ate this year at Swan River Junior High school with about 21 students in grades 1 and 2 together another group starting school Board chairman Jerry thera said yesterday transportation prob lems and the likelihood the program eventually would be moved to Swan River anyway were major factors in the he also said education minister Maureen Hemphill told trustees by letter that she believes that once a division has started French Immer it must continue offering thera said this ultimately could mean that if one student is enrolled in a Board must offer this Issue has also surfaced in Assiniboine South school division Charleswood and Westdale commune where some parents want a grade4entry immersion pro Gram started this most children Start French immersion in Kindergan Candy Sigurdson of Vialou drive said the Board started it for about 25 Grade 4 students last september and her group wants it for about half a dozen starting Grade 4 this plus whoever else shows she said parents approached the Board monday but trustees voted simply to receive their letter and seek a Legal Board chairman Jack Hunt said yesterday trustees strongly support immersion and know they must offer it if at least 23 students Are Regis he said trustees also be Lieve they have to offer it if the number of students is really adding that about 15 students must sign up for a High school course for it to be Hunt said the Legal opinion May come later this week if a special Board meeting could be held Early next Hemphill must continue 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 we government int interested in funding two ceiling stations at red sucker Lake but suggested the Metis which lives on an Island about a could use the bands it would be ridiculous to have two fish Sheds he on the program were looking at value for Dollar 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 it should have been in the hands of the fishermen these Are the Guys who Are supposed to use it and our people would work together with the fishermen from the he said the Metis group would have preferred its own adding that As it now the band could bar Metis from using because its on the they could Cut us off at any wed have to fish on their terms and we dont want to be bossed we want to control our own he added that the Metis Haven entered into Many joint arrangements with the band population at the com about 500 Kilometres Northeast of free information Likely to Cost plenty Anayas Access of information act barely started to walk july 1 and already it appears to be stumbling in Bureau cratic red Freedom of information legis lation was supposed to give citizens Access to a wide Range of data including product safety environmental Impact Stu opinion polls arts consultants certain information is list 6f restrictions is Long and it includes income tax Cabinet ramp data arid 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 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 Mullin 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 up phasing out 13 trucking positions in Winnipeg thirteen Winnipeg employees of Ca Nadian Pacific will lose their jobs As a result of a fall merger Between the company up express and up trans port the workers May be placed in new jobs with other sections of the says a up the Winnipeg along with 72 others in thundered Calgary and will see their positions phased out starting the most of them members of the brotherhood of airlines and steamship Are Dock 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 he both up express and up transport Are general commodity trucking firms with the former handling mainly smaller de Gagne said neither division has been losing but added the reorganization will allow the new company to better Deal with a competitive trucking de Gagne said up officials Are optimistic the 85 employees will be rehired by up trucks for other posts within the next our planning indicates some other entities in up May be expanding their operations and these people May be hired Worms decimating Manitoba 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 Ori the silk and the while the Borer feeds All up and Down the weakening the weather h High t Low cold front warm front 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 variable cloudiness with scattered showers saturday and sunday with temperatures near Normal values of 17 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 the borers Are prevalent and doing the worst even in Home gardens around Mclean one of Pur 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 with borers Active in More than half the plants in Fields surveyed by Manitoba agriculture entomologist Andy Kolach said a combination of factors has caused the insect the mild wet hot summer and a gradual increase in Corn acreage produced a High insect survival rate from last year and a fast buildup this a lot of stalks will be weakened enough to break and that Means a lot of cobs will be Down where they cant be easily picked up later by the he its much too Early to make a Good estimate of the extent of the Grain Corn damage but with so Many borers present it could be Kolach said there Are pesticides on the Market which can effectively combat the but they must be used within a very Short period of spraying for borers must take place during the four of five Days in Early july when the Worms have just hatched and Are still on the economic analyst Carol Nachtigall said another insect the wheat is beginning to show up in Northwestern Fields around Swan River and a heavy infestation of the which devours the inside of wheat was reported last week in nearby northeastern deaths classified death National is s 22 6 20 13 27 11 10 29 10 31 13 29 1 26 12 26 w 29 15 Winnipeg 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