Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 13, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba The province Winnipeg free press january Page 2 Julian provincial editor Rand court chief protests slow Justice by Bob Lowery special to the free press Thompson there is still no sign of a breakthrough in a standoff that has kept court from being held on the Mathias colomb Indian Reserve since at that Crown attorney Glen Reid the court including provincial court judge Jack dra were met at the Pukatawagan Airport by chief Pascall who refused to allow them to enter the Reserve because of the bands complaints about the Way in which Justice was being the chief and councils main complaint was that accused people keep getting remanded for months and sometimes As much As a year before their Case is Matt the bands executive direct it gives us plenty of trouble be cause someone who May have beaten up on another band member is free to walk around the Reserve until his Case is its pretty scary for the Sinclair said that All the frustrations about the Justice system eventually arrived at the chiefs and councils rescheduled he said the chief is also upset about the Light sentences that Are handed after the 4 meeting with Reid it was Clear the court party was being kicked off the we stood around in the cold and finally decided to reschedule the Pukatawagan court docket until the 19 court in a number of the accused did not show up for that Reid the next Pukatawagan docket is set for Lynn Lake on a roundtrip airfare to Thompson costs plus an overnight in a the rail fare to Lynn Lake is Sinclair but that also turns out to be a pretty rough he because which is supposed to arrive at Pukatawagan at is Seldom on its a four hour which Means that people get into Lynn Lake in the Middle of the night with no place to we get plenty of complaints from the Lynn Lake end about our Riffraff arriving in the Middle of the night and kicking up quite a the bands action has been reported to provincial court chief judge Kris whom Drapack said is taking the matter up with Justice minister Jim program built to reduce Bias against natives a Brandon employment program to increase the number of native workers in the Justice system will help reduce the Bias of corrections officers against native the programs coordinator because the majority of Manitoba inmates Are Louise thaneuf Miron i think there would be a natural native corrections officers work ing with nonnative officers will help offset that she this is an Effort to get natives More involved in the Justice sys she of the 17 people in the training 13 Are nine Are women and two Are 39week course the 39week certified by provincial corrections received a Grant from the Federal employment and immigration thaneuf Miron says the pro which provides instruction in counselling and Cri Sis intervention will also improve training for corrections officers in in initial training for corrections officers lasts about eight she students accepted by the sponsored by the Brandon Friend ship receive tuition and mini mum students must have been unemployed 24 of the last 30 weeks to apply to the our mistake a Story tuesday said wrongly that industries was one of 14 Mani Toba manufacturing plants that announced shutdowns in the first year of free Trade with the although the company permanently Laid off 20 of its 160 employees last it is still in Ted the last Beula area resident to receive a private Telephone chats on the while a Rural operator from bygone Days Fields a Call on a multiparty soon to be a thing of the Bury the the party line is dead by Randy Turner Winnipeg free press a Culah there was a time when Myrtle Curry knew just about a Telephone operator in the heyday of the multiparty during the late Curry literally connected the farming in she provided residents with everything from a shoulder to cry on to the time of you were a go Between and a source of information for now in her Early you got Peoples troubles and their Happy they phone you up whether you wanted to hear them or you had to be a she you stoked up the you watered the you rang the fire they were Good Days to Tell you the but the Days of the local operator have Long since passed and multiparty exchanges Are about to follow Bury the the party lines history is being made in Rural where the last multiparty exchanges Are being converted to private by the the party line Long a unique fixture of Rural communications will be part of provincial in the Beulah located about 100 Kilometres Northwest of 141 subscribers were converted in and in a Region that not Long ago had up to eight families sharing one phone no one is mourning the the private line is really a longtime resident fee Macdonald after to these residents the phrases conference Call and Call waiting had a whole new City dwellers May have or never what it was like to share one phone line with a few when we first started using the party line there was seven or eight on the recalled Ted the last Beula area resident to 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