Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 13, 1984, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free april 1984 free press judge hits placement of adopted natives out province placement called cultural genocide government critics Harry Enns Russ Doern and Sid Green compare notes economic boost planned throne speech focuses on business High tech continued from Page 1 initiatives and the govern ment will work shoulder to shoulder with labor and Pawley would provide no specific details on the proposed new investment program aimed at encouraging Indus trial but he did say it would not include tax the province is hoping to Cash in on Trade promotion by boosting firms which Export and it wants to grab a bigger share of High technology the government continued to emphasize housing As one of its Job Crea Tion thrusts by vowing to expand its affordable new Homes program and a vague reference to several new hous ing the speech provided few other in details lacking in opposition critics complain continued from Page 1 about it if there was Ransom added that the speech Indi Cates the government Doest have that vision of where they Are going on developing the Only Manitoba federation of labor president Dick Martin praised the Pawley governments economic pro the 1 enemy of All of us is that anything they do to create More jobs and to get people into the happier we Martin Manitoba Liberal Leader Sharon Carstairs said the governments proposals sound unlike an nip one had closed ones one could say that was a conservative govern ment throne she she said she expected the nip to have some courage and and i saw neither in this progressive Leader Sidney Green said a reference in the speech to an Industrial educational technology Centre was an attempt to make work for nip a former nip Cabinet minis said the Lack of reference to legislation showed they have Learned that the passing of Laws Doest cure to that they have progressed to the Point of having be come others were upset by what the speech didst Norrie said there were several very glaring omissions from the cites Point of including no reference to proposed changes to municipal assess i thought assessment would be front and Centre As it should Norrie we were a Little concerned that there was no reference to the changes to the City of Winnipeg act that were looking while there was Only a single line reference to possible changes to labor Martin said he was hopeful that would mean the major Reform that we have been waiting for for a Long time would he added that the Mil was particularly eager for stiffer legislation to Deal with Plant providing for much greater Advance notice and Al lowing for an examination of the books of companies million to be spent on transport in Manitoba continued from Page 1 shops in under the transportation another million is designated to Cement Manitoba place in the transportation this includes g a building at the University of which will com Bine administration facilities with a transportation research de scribed by sources As d a air control Centre at Winnipeg ending speculation that the aging Winnipeg Centre might be closed and control services split Between Edmonton and q a renovation to the Cana Dian National railways building on main d improvements at Brandon and Thompson i a rail bus test project at designed to run to Pukatawagan and Thicket with Ottawa putting up a Federal source said attempts to bolster which could be the Northern base for Oil and Gas develop ments in Hudson High Arctic development and potential min eral amount to a Bridge to the but he stressed that Churchill Resi dents will be involved in a study on that it will not be run from Ottawa or Broadway we intend to have private academic and Community sights into what will make up the bulk of what is expected to be a Light probably Only 40 Bills will be compared with the 115 from the last the longest most of that contentious legislation is now behind now is the Premier the throne speech made Only one oblique reference to the Frenchman Gage saying it Likely wont come up because it is before the supreme court of Why should i talk about that Issue it is now before the Pawley he added that he expects the tone of debate will be More civil this session and both sides should avoid the character assassination and childish Ness that marked the last the largely a resume of the governments first two years in steered of it suggested Only that there should be some changes to labor legislation and did not refer to the potentially explosive labor Law review now before it referred also to proposed changes in child and family services but again no details were it gave no indication of what will happen with proposed municipal assessment As it did not touch on earlier promises of Freedom of information legislation and govern ment involvement in life insurance the most contentious proposal in the last throne apart from economic the speech dwelt mostly on social touching on everything from the governments commitment to medicare to plans to get tougher with drunk drive it said legislation on blood testing for sobriety will be and the Alert alcohol level evaluation Roadside testing program will be As it indicated new regulations on the handling of dangerous goods and the treatment and disposal of Haz ardous strengthening of provi Sions in the clean environment act regarding pesticides and Mosquito control also Are other proposals included d development of a provincial train ing strategy for Job including Young and those who have lost jobs to new d promises to expand childrens Den Tal programs and adult Day As Well As the development of reproductive health centres and promotion of maternal and child health d legislation to preserve heritage resources and to encourage Community participation and conservation of Man d the government will stress working towards ending longstanding concerns about the injustices to women and advocating the reforms necessary to reduce those continued from Page 1 for the right buyer to stroll of 437 children placed for adoption in 108 were sent outside eight six per cent of those children were of native out of province adoptions ran a Good Chance of failing before they were final or during the Childs teenage the report Community services minister Muriel Smith said she has been encouraged by the changes being implemented in the but disagreed with the reports implied judgment of social workers and agencies by the term cultural i think they were acting in Good Faith according to the Wisdom of the i think its using Hindsight to make judgments on the she adding she favored some of the reports but yet say whether they would be judge Kimelman blasted agencies for the condition of the childrens he often omitted important information and reflected a casual attitude to dealing with he tempered his criticism of the provinces native adoption system in 1981 with Praise for recent changes and suggested further the judge suggested that agencies standards of confidentiality be loosened so adopted their parents and siblings can keep in he recommended agencies maintain Contact adoptive parents in form the natural parents of the Chil Dens other recommendations included the establishment of neighbourhood re source centres and Safe houses As an alternative to the removal of Chil Dren from families with the judge urged the province to give a mandate to the director of child welfare to ask out province child welfare agencies to consider the return of children to Manitoba if an adoption placement Breaks native spokesmen praised the report for putting their claims into Larry a member of native family said the government should accept responsibility for the adoptions by legislating committees to troops storm hijacked bus continued from Page 1 handed the release of 500 guerrillas held in israeli jails and Safe passage to Egypt for said defence minister Moshe who watched the Rescue Mission from the they had a bomb they threatened to but we managed to take control before they had a Chance to Deto Nate Arens told Israel the hijackers also were armed with bottles of knives and a officials a passenger said one Hijacker threatened repeatedly to kill everyone the troops stormed aboard the bus just before i heard a tremendous burst of gun i said to myself this is an unidentified passenger told israeli i immediately Lay on the floor someone fell on top of he soldiers told the passengers to stay on the floor until they know whats going on around there were lots of for about 15 seconds and then it was All said associated press photographer Max who was 250 metres from the bus when it was the hijackers seized the bus thurs Day evening after it left Ashdod on its run from Tel Aviv to the port of they boarded the bus As paying then pulled their weapons and forced the Driver to take the vehicle to the military sources the bus broke through two Road blocks before sharpshooters stopped it near the palestinian refugee Camp of Dir Al about 80 Kilometres South of Tel Aviv in the territory captured from Egypt in the 1967 Middle East a pregnant woman who became hysterical was released from the bus South of and about nine passengers escaped when the bus the military prime minister Yitzhak Shamir announced on israeli the res Cue operation had ended successfully with the release of All and said it proved terrorists had no Chance of imposing their will on us and escaping the israeli military censor initially blacked out All coverage of the Hijack ing for several but rumours of it spread the bus hijacking was the first Inci Dent of hostages being taken in Israel since March when a dozen palestinian guerrillas landed in North Ern Israel in rubber they seized two buses filled with israeli sightseers near Kibbutz Meagan i North of Tel the guerrillas forced the occupants into a single bus and drove Clown the coast toward Tel a shootout with israeli forces at a Highway Junction just North of the City left 35 israelis and nine guerrillas recapture the children and return them to their Tim executive director of the Dakota ojibway child and family welcomed the findings but condemned the province for failing to act on recommendations in previous aside from the the governments response has been quite he blaming the govern ment for failing to Issue directives or produce legislation which would outline placement spokesmen for Manitoba childrens Aid societies objected to judge Kimel Maris use of the term cultural Geno that1 term suggests a planned said Bob Christie of the childrens Aid society of Western i make no apologies for my find judge Kimelman adding he want faulting workers at the ground level for the Job prospects improved for canadians in March Ottawa up Job prospects for the country More than million unemployed improved in March even though the unemployment level in creased during the month As statistics Canadas help waited Index climbed for the second straight month in March reaching its highest level in two the Agency said the based on the average level of help wanted ads appearing in 18 selected daily newspapers across the country equalling 100 in Rose to 58 last month from 54 in february and 52 in the which measures changes in the number of help wanted ads appearing and does not give the number of is calculated on a monthly measurement of the Quantity of ads appearing in the 18 newspapers across in As the Index unemployment there is often a lag from the time the Index turns up to the time that unemployment drops be cause it takes time for people to respond to an for an employer to select someone and for the Success Ful candidate to begin the lag May also have accounted for finance minister Marc Lalonde t cocky but Senba Grassing wrong prediction in the commons last month that the March jobless rate would Likely fall and Surprise opposition Lalonde prediction followed news that february help wanted Index had climbed but Many of those jobs might still not have been filled when Statis tics Canada did its March employment i Lalonde last week admitted inthe commons Heimas disappointed by the results the March unemployment Survey which showed the Job less rate climbed to per cent from per cent in february and the number of unemployed climbed by to the help wanted figures also show that the demand for workers has in creased most Jin the Atlantic prov the Index there climbed to 114 in March from 94 in february and was up from a Low of 43 in december of the depth of the the Index climbed in Allex cent British Columbia where it slipped to 30 from and was Only somewhat higher than the Altime Low of 21 set in january in the Index Rose to 67 from in Ontario to 60 from 58 and in the Pairie provinces to 34 from nobody but nobody beats our new cars prices Cutlass supreme 4 rear lilt 2 Jet Glaze More hop in for savings 1984 celebrity 4 rear two tone tilt rally wheels plus much brakes wheel accent Etc c135b10 1984 Caprice 2 Wencl Clivio Urlo Ndoci under cold clip Milo step 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