Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 22, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free january 1985 status Bill to restore Crombie says by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Nelson House Al Indian affairs minister David Crombie says he will introduce a Bill next month restoring band member ship to native women who have lost their status through Crombie said during a Daylong conference Here that the Bill would leave the thorny Issue of band membership with the under the Indian a native woman who marries a no Indian loses her a male Indian who marries a nonnative does the discrimination in the Legisla Tion has riled native and nonnative women groups for several Bill Defeated last a Liberal government Bill that would have ended discrimination was Defeated in the Crombie told the chiefs the new Bill would be a Good piece of Legisla Tion which should Deal with the controversial some chiefs were Skepi chief Walter Monias of the Cross Lake Indian band said Manitoba chiefs have not yet agreed on what they native women who lose their Sta Tus also lose their right to live on and share in their re the government wants to return their rights without placing too much of a Strain on the tory government also is try ing to respect Indian leaders de mands that they have More author Ity in their own including deciding who is a status Crombie yesterday told the chiefs that risks will have to be taken if Canadian indians Are to be Given the Chance to develop and control their he told 33 Manitoba chiefs at the conference the old ways had produced 90percent unemployment on Many had taken away the Pride of a great people and their ability to do things for them Crombie was responding to a com plaint by the Shamattawa Indian band that the Federal department had placed Roadblock after Road Block in their Way As they tried to take responsibility for construction of a new under the the band was to become the principal con tractor and then go into partnership with an established construction company of its John a Shamattawa band said the band had to j i David Crombie Speaks with chief Rodney Spence of the Nelson for construction of the approval he said bureaucrats came through the Back door and changed the agreement making the Federal Public works department the prime the Indian band had to Settle for a provision ensuring band members get As much work As the band raised the Issue with Crombie earlier and the agreement has been changed again to allow the band to become the principal Crombie said yesterday any time Indian there is change there Are people who Are afraid of but department policy is established by the minister and it is the civil services Job to follow the he chief Joe Guy Wood of there a and three other Island Lake chiefs presented 19 major concerns during the these included Commer Cial overcrowded schools and the procurement of a five year Winter Road building contract for the bands construction they asked Crombie to Speed up a contract for construction Ofa new nursing station at which has been before the Federal Treasury Board for some As Crombie said he would respond to questions concerning government policy in native land claims next chief Charlie constant of the Pas and chief Philip Michel of Brochet said an agreement in Prin Ciple covering Manitoba land claims had been reached just before the Federal we have been waiting to see what the new government is going to Michel government wife battering ads emphasize violence a provincial advertising Campaign to curb wife battering will emphasize violence in order to reduce the perception the government is inter Fering in family Community services communications director Allan Cohen said As Cohen said an earlier series of ads was dismissed As Light weight by a test audience that advised using extreme speaking to about 100 government Public relations said four to ads and four 60second radio spots have been produced at an estimated Cost of said the ads will be aired intensively Over a six week period beginning in one of the to ads a woman describes How in her first trimester her husband dragged her by the hair and Only stopped when she complained of pains in her another woman tells of How her husband took his shirt off to strangle her and during a she thought of reaching for a one woman describes How her Young son has a permanent Bruise on his Arm after she was kicked by her husband during these ads were tested last Cohen the Over whelming response was that they had Cohen said one in 10 women suf attempted murder charge Laid a City Man has been charged with attempted murder in connection with a shooting incident a police spokesman said an argument Between two Brothers led to a Man picking up a Rifle and chasing another Man out of the the spokesman said the Man at tempted to come Back to the but was again chased on the second he said the Man received a gunshot wound to the buttocks and was taken to con Cordia a Foche Street Man was charged saturday with attempted murder and possessing a weapon dangerous to the Public the spokesman fers physical abuse and 40 per cent of abused women have their first experience while we began last May but didst know which direction the Campaign would Cohen a first group of to produced last were criticized by a test audience for being too Cohen the depictions of women were not they the audience wanted extreme As the test audience had some reservations about the truth of the statistical he some people doubted that one in 10 women Are Cohen said government planners went Back to the drawing Board and picked up the theme of myth versus car dealer ordered to return Deposit theres a series of myths that were being experienced by Cohen that abuse is not common that it Only occurs within marriage situations that abuse Only occurs with an act of we wanted to begin the process of breaking Down the tolerance level for abuse across the the main thrust is the to they create the emotional Impact we think is one thing we were concerned about was the role in which we were placing the government that the government could be seen As inter vening in family Cohen that the reason the emphasis is on the Cohen said one in four women also Are victims of nonviolent Telephone rate fears by Mary Ann Fitzgerald communications minister Eugene Kostyra says Manitoba fears that Telephone rates will soar if Tele phone deregulation is adopted in Canada have been confirmed in discussions with Utility officials arid users in the Only Benefit we have seen is the fact that some of the Large business users have significant reductions in their Lon distance Tele phone Kostyra told Winnipeg reporters yesterday in a conference Call from Minneapolis where he is studying the Impact of deregulation in Minnesota Kostyra said the Daylong fact finding Mission disclosed that rates Are increasing for local par1 titular by fur Al workers Laid off As he Many companies Are having to Lay off with Ani estimated 700 employees put out of jobs in the last i along with officials from Manitoba Public utilities Manitoba Telephone the unions representing the provinces Telephone and staff of his department of heritage and spent the Day in Minneapolis meeting with Telephone Public utilities Telephone users and Manitoba is opposing an application by a nip telecommunications to the Canadian radio television and telecommunications commission to move Lon distance Market in Ontario and British Manitoba argues it be the first step to allowing other Compani enter the lucrative Market a Federal provincial study re1 leased last fall shows it could result in a 180percent increase in local Kostyra said any such deregulation should be a policy decision negotiated Between governments and not left to a regulatory Agency such As the crts or the he said he is optimistic that Feder Al communications minister Marcel Masse wants to Deal with provincial governments in developing a poli Kostyra said the information Gath ered on the Minnesota Mission will be presented to Masse to Back up Manitoba judge a Transcona use car Dealership to return a Deposit it had wrongfully withheld from a former prospective the Ron had to write out a Cheque for to Lomarr enterprises last september before the Dealership would allow him to take one of its cars to another Dealership for a when he discovered the car needed about Worth of Mckenzie told Lomarr he wanted to think about it before making a in the Lomarr cashed the Cheque and refused to return the weather Mckenzie took his complaint to Small claims court in and won a decision against but the company appealed that ruling to the Manitoba court of Queens after listening to both sides in the Justice Benjamin Hewak concluded Lomarr had no right to keep the k Lomars Lloyd maintained yesterday that Mckenzie made an offer to Purchase the car a 1977 Honda civic and the was a Deposit to hold the vehicle until he could return with the rest of the Mckenzie and his older insisted that an offer to Purchase was never and they were told the Cheque was a Deposit to ensure the car was safely returned following the judge Hewak said he accepted the Mckenzie version of what he said Zubriski had no proof that an offer to Purchase the car was Ever and ordered the Dealership to return the furniture maker laying off 10 a Winnipeg manufacturer is laying off 10 employees As it phases out its production of furniture Morley president of g Iii said the company decided it could buy frames locally at a lower Cost than producing Globerman said he is sad to see that aspect of the operation As some of the employees have been with the company a Long but economics dictated the g Iii has Between 80 and 90 employees producing upholstered sleeping comforters and Al a2 beef sides of beef roast Job round or Rump roast round Steak full such beef prices effective 26 store hours to we Reserve the right to limit quantities pork Hocks pork loin Oit for Freezer fresh Canadian Lamb Lamb legs deaths classified death Winnipeg area forecast frequent Cloudy periods High near Cloudy periods tomorrow with Little temperature probability of precipitation 10 per cent tonight and extended Outlook Southern Manitoba mainly sunny thursday through saturday with near to a Little above Normal Normal High is Normal Low is sunny near Normal tempera Normal High is Normal Low is sunny with near Normal tem Normal High is Normal Low is National Max min 7 5 j 17 0 Thunder i7 2 Winnipeg temperature comparisons moan 21 last 7 o on record in 1900 lowest on record in 1883 precipitation total from to Millimetres Normal yesterday 5 16 20 17 12 International a 21 5 14 new 13 19 o 6 6 a o 8 23 is 9 5 10 4 9 4 Tel 18 resort spots los Cloudy 14 13 Las partly 14 7 Cloudy 23 8 Clear 27 25 Cloudy 3 1 Cloudy 10 4 Cloudy 19 13 Cloudy 23 15 fair 30 22 fair 28 24 Cloudy 23 15 of widow of Orest John of Portage la for Merly of Hus band of Ivy Portage la widower of Jean of husband of Migue la of Lan Caster wife of Larry Lionel of husband of Beverly Hus 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