Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 15, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba To y i i indians confused Over loss of dry reserves by Tom Goldstein i a court decision prohibiting Alco Tolfree reserves has left Manitoba Indian leaders angry and confused but attorney general Roland Tenner said the effects of the decision have been spokesmen said yesterday the decision challenges the Validity of the Indian the concept of Indian self government and is an infringe ment on Indian the judge who said that should get a better handle about what in Dian government is All said Eric executive director of province the brotherhood of Indian we just dont conform to Canad an if a Reserve wants to be then so be chief fed Anderson of the dry Fairford Reserve in the Interlake it should be up to each individual band what should be Legal and illegal on the he the Indian act makes it illegal to be drunk or to possess liquor on a the act also allows re serves to pass bylaws to allow Alco hol in their according to the department of Indian and Northern 27 of Manitoba 60 reserves Are most Are located in Northern Mani in a three Page decision Justice Armand Dureault of Manitoba court of Queens Bench upheld a lower court ruling that of the Indian act violates the Equality provisions in of the Canadian Bill of provided that no liquor be allowed on which made it illegal to be drunk on a was struck Down in 1983 by Manitoba court of Appeal on the grounds it violated the Bill of Indian spokesmen said yesterday judge Ftp results decision has shaken the philosophical and Legal foundations on which Indian chiefs and band councils needless to say its tearing up the whole said Tommy Weenusk of the dry Oxford House 600 Kilometres North of Treyve never Felt that the Bill of rights is stronger than the Indian brotherhood of Indian nations drowned boys Mother considers suing a Mother is considering a lawsuit against the City of claim ing the recreation department was negligent after her boy drowned in a local swimming David Harold went missing police found his body monday eve Ning in murky water at the deep end of the Kinsmen Centennial Ming Debra the boys said yesterday an investigation should be launched to find out How her son got into the Pool area and Why the Pool want in thinking of suing the Garl Brandon City Man said last night that outdoor pools in the City Are never completely drained because doing so would damage Backman said the deep end of the which in the summer is metres was drained to the level last he said the Winter Frost would cause the Pool Walls to Cave if it was it would mean a major repair Job each Backman services said the City covers its outdoor pools with a heavy he called the boys death he said this makes but added you have to ask yourself what the Little fellow was doing Over the Childs Mother said the Pool should have been blocked theres no Way kids should be Able to get in she Backman said the Pool is enclosed by a barbed wire Don chairman of Winnipeg recreation and social fish trafficker fined record an Interlake Man has Bee handed one of the highest fines Ever levied in Manitoba for illegal fish Traffick Alexander of Lake Martin was fined in provincial magistrates court in Ashern monday after he pleaded guilty to unlawfully possessing Pickerel Fil lets out of the depart ment of natural resources said in a statement court was told that traverse and two companions were caught with 994 fillets or 134 kilograms of Pickerel stashed in 13 suitcases and plastic when their Halfton truck was stopped on Highway 6 near Mulvihill on May the fish has an estimated value of More than Ken the departments inter Lake Region said last night fines for illegal trafficking in the past have averaged about with the highest probably in the to there has been nothing on this he noting the Fine also reflected the value of the trafficking has been an ongoing problem and we Are making a Spe Cial Effort this Spring try to clean it Hill four others have been charged this year with illegal but their cases have yet to come to he the largest amount of fish involved is 23 this is a Good Start he noting the department Hopes the courts will Deal with future cases Hill said the department can Only speculate How the fish is sold once it reaches the the fish seized from traverse and his companions will be donated to local he it almost impossible for a child to fall he said the City began doing this after a similar situation in which a child drowned in a City Pool four years Mitchelson said the City also raised the height of fences that enclose outdoor pools to three metres from Brandon police said they have no idea How Long the boy was in the Pool or How he got inside the Don Brennan said searchers exhausted about 20 leads before re turning to the swimming Pool about police checked the Pool but the water was so dirty they missed the boys he Backman said there is evidence someone unfastened a Bolt near the Bottom of the Fence that clips two sections of it he said it also appears that an animal burrowed a Hole beneath the Backman said the combination of the two created a Gap Large enough to allow a Small child to crawl he said the Fence was inspected less than a month ago and it was not damaged chairman chief Bill traverse of the dry Jack head Reserve in the inter Lake said the judgment will be particularly confusing to native elders for whom the Indian act is the chief Jim spokesman for the first nations said the judgment is a slap to native communities trying to curb other leaders noted liquor makes its Way on to dry reserves regardless of the it will just Worsen the chief Walter Apet agon of the dry Norway House band Weenusk said the Oxford House which has been dry for a is waging a Battle against alcohol abuse created by High unemployment and inadequate Educa were losing control and even More so because of this he theres a lot of reasons to be de head of the ramps native programs in Manito said the decision would have Little effect on Reserve i dont see any problems from a police Boucher i expect the workload will go up As the booze goes he said violence usually declines after a Reserve becomes but eventually creeps Back in along with alcohol attorney general Roland Pennet said the effect of judge Dureault decision has been Penner said reserves still can vote to ban the Sale of liquor just like aft other Manitoba Community they reserves Are dry to the extent that Steinbach Penner there is not going to be chaos As a result of that under the provincial liquor control municipalities Are consid ered wet unless they hold a referendum to ban the Sale of nine communities have taken that a spokesman for the Manitoba liquor control commission police Lack leads in search for woman police still have no leads on Mary the elderly woman who walked away from seven Oaks Gen eral Hospital thursday was undergoing Obser vation when she Winnipeg police continued the search yesterday with four officers following Bill Heintz no 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