Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 9, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba The nation Winnipeg free press january Canada at a glance Bosnia pullout called mistake Canadian press Victoria can Ada and other countries Are talking about pulling their peacekeepers out of Bosnia when they should consider escalating says the chairman of the National defence committee for the federation of military institutes of in the Balkans the acts Are so reprehensible that the free world has no Choice but to go said Cecil a Victoria resident and retired the democracies Are going to have to say this cant go on any longer and enforce peace with a full scale military retirement offered Toronto up to 250 of Xerox Canadas employees Are being offered Early retirement and layoffs Are being a spokeswoman last Parent Xerox of announced a 10per cent reduction of its worldwide the Canadian subsidiary of the copier giant expects about half those eligible for Early accept the City wins land feud judge has ruled the City of Toronto is the Legal owner of chunk of land near sky one of the most prize pieces of real estate in in and Toronto went to court Over hectares of downtown property Between a railway corridor and an considered some of the most expensive underdeveloped real estate in the land sits near sky dome and the adjacent in student apologizes College student who mimicked a machine gun attack on women at a memorial service for victims of the 1989 Montreal massacre has written a letter of apology and started attending counselling Vancouver Community College president John Cruickshank said Friday he was satisfied with the apology from the but women organizers of the disrupted 6 remembrance service said they Are not satisfied with the colleges groups Saddle up Medicine h coalition of animal rights groups has started Legal action Over the removal of wild horses from a Southern Alberta army the coalition filed notice in Federal court of Canada in Ottawa Friday asking the court to declare invalid a decision by defence minister David Collenette to remove the wild horses roaming Canadian forces base arguing the horses Are damaging a wildlife Reserve on the the department of National defence announced it would remove the entire Blunder sickening Vancouver due to an advertising Agency a Large Public service announcement for the salvation army has appeared in a steamy publication that sold in adults Only the adult Cinema review Magazine ran the free Sally Ann advertisement beside plugs for mail order sex army spokesman Bill Merritt Calls the ads placement bizarre and he said the Sally Ann submits notices to and which try to place them in infant shaken Ottawa 37dayold infant was listed in very critical condition yesterday at the childrens Hospital of Eastern Ontario after he was violently shaken in his suburban Home in nearby the baby suffered severe brain police the infants 26yearold father has been charged with aggravated assault and criminal Cabinet minister sues Ottawa tories killed grits patronage posting Canadian press Ottawa Revenue minis Ter David Anderson is suing his own government for in come he lost after the former tory government terminated his Liberal patronage appointment in says a report in the Ottawa in May of last the Federal court dismissed Andersons claim that he lost in along with similar suits from four other appointees who were also fired by the tories in now All including have appealed the Federal court de the citizen reported yester Anderson was a former lib eral Leader when Pierre Trudean Liberal Cabinet appointed him to a 10year term on the immigration Appeal Board in Anderson has said he has not spoken to immigration minister Sergio Marchi about his Case since being sworn to Cabinet in asked if he would drop his Anderson would Only say that peo ple dont lose their rights when they Are appointed to the tory government decided in 1988 to scrap the immigration Board Midway through Andersons 10year at that Ander son was earning about a plus Anderson and the other four Trudeau Era appointees refused an offer of a further two year term on the newly created immigration and refugee they sued for the full amounts in pay and Bene fits they would have received until the end of their original in his ruling last Justice Barry Strayer said while the complainants have not been treated fairly in this they should have known that parliament had the option to terminate their ext Axman takes to airwaves Canadian press up photo Anderson lost his immigration Appeal Board Job in Toronto Garth the former Federal Revenue minister and conservative leadership has returned to his old career of business journal Turner has been hired to provide nightly reports and commentaries on the Economy and per Sonal finance on three Baton Brod casting stations in southwestern on Tario Cpl in a Knox in Wingham and Chwi in says he has no plans to organize a tax revolt among View As he did in his pre politics Job As business editor of the Toronto Ive had too Many other experiences to jump Back into the role of mad he said in an inter in his few weeks As Revenue min ister in former prime minister Kim Campbells Turner vowed Zero tolerance for tax cheats and but he also promised not to penal ize delinquent taxpayers who voluntarily went to tax offices to negotiate a schedule of a lot of Good talk but no natives say Osaji by Bud Robertson staff reporter Manitoba aboriginal Justice inquiry held much Hope for those who had Felt wronged by the six years and million those Hopes Are beginning to fade once the which heard from More than people Over a two month period in turned out to be a lot of Good talk but no believes Jim president of the aboriginal Council of after the release of the much touted there was a lot of said it looked very he it seems to be similar to Indian affairs reports and other studies and just gathering the inquiry was sparked by the 16year delay in trying anyone for the slaying of native teenager Helen Yra for in this staff reporter Bud Robertson introduces the year for racial Harmony project and examines the advances and the setbacks being made in promoting better understanding Between Winnipeg ethnically diverse last of a series Betty Osborne in the Pas in and the police shooting of Indian Leader Harper in the report which resulted from the historic inquiry contained 293 a list of recommendations which have been adopted by the Justice department since the re ports 1991 release contains Only 17 from the construction sweat lodges in two Manitoba correctional facilities to a program to appoint More aboriginal justices of the we were tremendously disappointed at the response of the prov Ince upon receiving the said Graham executive director of the John Howard society of which provides advocacy and counselling for at least half the population of Manitoba jails is made up of a with numbers As High As 80 per cent in Northern while aboriginal self government with respect to Justice want expected to be a reality just what we did not get was a commitment to move in that direction from the gov said there has been some tinkering with the system since then but there native inmate struggles to change hostile system Hast been the change that the re port retired court of Queens Bench judge Al Hamilton has also noticed a Lack of commitment from the prov Ince since the release of the which he coauthored with judge Murray aboriginal people do not have Faith in our society he and the provincial government has shown Little commitment to instituting a separate aboriginal jus Tice a key recommendation of the inquiry other such As closing some jails and replacing them with More Community based have also been he you could take almost any Issue we dealt with in the report and then say there have been no apparent changes or action with respect to but Justice minister Rosemary Vodrey said the province Hast for gotten about the need for reforms to the Justice since last the province has been involved in talks with the As Sembly of Manitoba chiefs and the Federal government to try to implement More of the inquiry recon she a lot of the recommendations cant be achieved said Hamilton concedes there has been some movement toward getting aboriginal people More involved in the Justice he Points to a recent sentencing Circle at hollow water first nations Reserve As a Good first step in turn ing responsibility Over to aboriginal people in determining their own method of Justice and to the hiring of More aboriginal police i would like to some the provincial government will Wake up and get said the present system int work by Bud Robertson staff reporter d Wayne Dussome has spent the better part of his life looking out from behind prison taken from his family and sent to a Catholic boarding school when he was Dussome has spent As much time searching for his aboriginal roots As running from the seated in an interview room at the Winnipeg remand Centre As he awaits trial for Dussome reflected on How the criminal jus Tice system has failed him and other aboriginal people in its quest to protect the Justice system Doest really understand aboriginal people or the need for aboriginal people to be brought Back to their cultural said the 31yearold who is struggling to overcome a drug Dussome said he was taken from an aboriginal family with Strong ties and forced to accept someone else it landed him in you cant take an aboriginal per son and Hope to turn that person into a Good human being by making them into something that there he it just Doest Dussome is now chairman of a native Fellowship organization at the remand where he has spent five the which brings in speak ers to help aboriginal inmates Cope with the was founded by a Ken free press Dussome discovering roots an inmate who has since left the in allowing elders into jails to pro Mote cultural awareness among native inmates is a Good first step in changing the system for the said but its still not traditional sentencing such As one held recently on the hol Low water Reserve and presided Over by judge Murray Sinclair could play a key role in keeping aboriginal people out of he i think what the aboriginal peo ple need to simply look after their own affairs and to Start putting together their own Way of dealing with crime in their these Are things that have been done for thousands and thousands of whats been done since inquiry among the recommendations of the aboriginal Justice inquiry implemented by the attorney generals department so far q funding of the Theresa Point youth court for aboriginal youth 13 Justice of peace program aimed at appointing More aboriginal justices q elder services in All seven provincial correctional institutions and creation of elder Council q sweat lodges constructed Al heading Ley jail and Agassiz youth Centre in Portage la Prairie q native awareness training for correctional officers revised and updated by two aboriginal officers q review of ramp and Winnipeg police investigations involving shootings and gathering of evidence q native advisory committees established in correctional institutions in Brandon and Dauphin with further committees to be established in All Manitoba q in conjunction with aboriginal the creation of speaking to he Canadas first aboriginal women report being prepared to develop plan of action to improve social services to aboriginal children and Day Kathleen Sullivan joins weight watchers Day Kathleen Sullivan has lost More than 8 lbs the Scales dont weight watchers superstar Kathleen Sullivan la s Soiu Lergul news for people in a you dont want la sacral ii your favorite food hurry to snarl losing its Llie remark superstar is Oliai i still cant thai you can eat Peanut holler and Jelly sandwiches and lose but ahle new sep Cestari program and Lind it Only Al weight former network Anchor supers Iari you Kathleen Sullivan had this to say after the iwo week superstar pro completing i wow Eek if Yon want to see results its i ale 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