Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 18, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Lin 958rent Apex realty 7368 Winnipeg free press local Section Brian Cole 6977292 email b1 april 1994 chord Sinclair role models status bruised it sounded like an idea whose time was Long a Canadian dramatic television series featuring native at last aboriginal youngsters could watch some positive role models in the dominant medium of the dominant and then i picked up thursdays front Sqq q a native Friend called As soon As she saw the Story about the two North of 60 to its incredibly Rhonda Gordon the article described How Gerald William bean actor John Oliver was charged with assaulting costar Tina the Mother of their Newborn there was a photo with the it showed keeper walking to a car cradling her Blanke wrapped baby in front of her As if she had done something keeper and Oliver play mounties on North of but before she played a make believe cop on keeper played a real person in a National film Board that real person was Rhonda the movie depicts an event in James five years ago where Rhonda and her then 11yearold daughter Angela were taunted about being indians by three Junior High for Angela premiered with a Benefit showing last i was talking to Tina at the Rhonda she was so its awful because Shes just this Sweet and funny woman and everything was going so Well for Rhonda suggested the roughest role keeper has had to play since North of 60 began last year is one of role actors Graham Green and Tom Jackson had been helping her handle that then Rhonda knows Shes going to be getting questions about Tina keeper As she goes from school to school showing for sometimes in asked How much violence is there in the native and in getting tired of my Standard about coming from backgrounds that Are Ive always tried to be you the walk a mile in moccasins but not not after what happened to my what happened last fall made headlines As just two weeks after for Angela the now 16yearold was lured to an apartment where five nonnative were Angela was threatened with death and slashed across the her but from difficult Are to be sentenced this Why did they abuse Angela according to their they thought Angela was a police informant because they heard her say she wanted to be a police officer when she finished there always talking about Healing Rhonda getting Back to violence in the native the Bottom line is we have to be responsible for our we cant hold history responsible for our actions Sqq its of that we All have to take responsibility for our the sad part of Tina keepers Story is her status As role Model for the native Community has been not because she didst take responsibility for her own but because of something someone else allegedly did to but int that the continuing Story of the native canadians guilt by association with their and nonnative liberals labelled hypocrites for holding raffle legislature reporter Manitoba liberals have resorted to the same kind of fundraising they have been slamming the Filmon government for and the grits Are under fire for using an office in the legislative building As a Contact for their party its a Little hypocritical for him Liberal Leader Paul Edwards to be carrying on about gambling when he is doing the same thing and then us ing a government Telephone to do lotteries minister Jim Ernst the grit which was drawn last saw 600 tickets sold for an advertisement for the which offered in total prize listed the legislative phone number of grit la Neil Gaurys executive a taxpayer paid position which is not to be used for party its inappropriate to use a government office in the legislative building to run a lottery Ernst Paul Edwards has gone from the King of Sanctimony to the King of by nip House Leader Steve Ashton has asked the civil service commission to investigate whether Gaurys use of his legislative office was appropriate and said he will raise the Issue at the next meeting of the legislative Assembly manage ment the Al party body that oversees the running of the leg Edwards denied the fundraiser was inconsistent with his party criticism of government i am a big defender of private organizations being Able to run Raffles to raise said who this week again called for a Provin Cial review of Edwards said Gaurys Yulande be head of the Liberal party fundraising efforts simply listed her office As a con tact in much the same fashion As oth ers who Are involved in activities outside of their Day today work i dont think there was anything inappropriate and it Cost the govern ment nothing to use the phone Phil free press Cecil passage checks out Jeremy Chesters tuba As they gathered for scouts hike for hunger at the Good deed helps to feed hungry by Patricia Zytnick free press correspondent it was the most fun two 10yearold boys have had since Cameron Wagner and Paul members of the Westminster United Church cub joined hundreds of scouts and venture groups who converged on the Manitoba legislature waving Green and red hundreds of children brought in food for Winnipeg hungry in the annual scouts hike for Wagner and Taylor helped push a wheelbarrow and shopping cart full of donated it was Wagner we wanted to help the poor people who dont have id say we did a Good during the past members of the different groups have been collecting food in their neighbourhoods to give to Winnipeg they paraded Down Balmoral and Colony streets to the legislature to drop off More than a tonne of one group of cubs pushed a Canoe on wheels full of while another used a red River City police blocked off traffic for the we think it was a Good experience for the said Bill Leader of the Westminster Church got to learn firsthand about helping David coordinator of Winnipeg said he was surprised by the amount of food the children we thought wed be pleased if we got but we got five times that this will allow us to keep going until at least emergency wards swamped with patients seven Oaks turn people away by Stevens wild staff reporter hospitals across the City reeled from an explosion in the number of emergency patients yesterday forc ing two emergency wards to at noon Grace general Hospital closed its emergency Ward and told All but the most serious patients to seek help it is not expected to reopen until today at 2 ambulances were also diverted from seven Oaks general Hospital for about 90 minutes yesterday afternoon As staff struggled to keep up with the for Suzan it was the wrong time to get a her face contorted with pain and her two children in Beaudoin pulled up in a taxi to the Grace Hospital yesterday afternoon and was turned away at the Ive been taking said Beaudo holding an ice pack to her i cant keep the medication i cant keep any thing a passerby offered her a ride to the Misericordia general there Are no More said Grace spokeswoman Sheryl adding he decision to turn away All but life threatening ing emergencies came after two Days of patient she said the Hospital also has a policy against releasing patients on Hospital officials were at a loss to explain the patient its just a Large number of people visiting our emergency Furlonger both the Misericordia and health sciences Centre reported similar its been kind of Hsc spokesman Jim Rodger at Concordia general medical director Henry Dirks said there were stretchers in the its been very Dirks adding that there tends to be an increase in accidents when the weather warms people Cut their foot at the hospitals tend to be busier on weekends when family physicians Are while Many Walkin clinics Lack proper Dirks Hsc emergency room physician Tony Herd said the closing of any emergency Ward has the potential for serious the potential is he Ous conditions Arent always straightforward life threatening it sometimes takes time to figure things Grace general Hospital president Harold Thorn ill said healthcare cutbacks had nothing to do with yesterdays situate Phil free mess son Jason daughter cutbacks dont increase the number of patients coming to he adding there have been no recent cuts m the number of it was just a hectic Day equity hiring plan flayed Federal programs enforcement weak critics complain by Heather Mclaughlin free press correspondent a Federal program designed to Force contractors to improve minority hiring turns a Blind Eye to All but the most blatant cases of equity advocates the Federal contractors program was set up to allow Only contractors who Are committed to increasing equity in their workforces to bid on Federal contracts of More than but program acting director Michaal Paliga said there Are no pass or fail Marks Given to the businesses and universities in the they do absolutely nothing toward meeting their stated hiring even if no Progress is organizations Are allowed to remain in the program while they Are encouraged to u of m Falls Short the intent is not to put companies out of a working Paliga our Effort is to try everything possible to see that an employer works toward employment the University of Manitoba has failed by half to meet its own hiring goals for women under the the University had planned to add 65 women to its full time academic body Between 1989 and but it managed to hire Only 32 for permanent academic says a self conducted compliance review obtained by the free the Overall proportional representation of women in the University workforce has not changed significantly since reads the Twenty per cent of the u of is full time academics Are female and Only 21 per cent of those Are University the report better than nothing employment equity advocates Arent Happy with the Lack of Teeth in the Federal but say there resigned to it because its better than nothing at Bey one of a number of people suing Manitoba universities for systemic discrimination against says the contractors program is not monitored closely enough by the Federal Marion past president of the University of Manitoba advisory Council on said the program lacks but called it a Small step the moral pressures a Little she at least it has put pressure on them to look at their gender distribution at various Levels and i doubt if that would have been accomplished on target the University did meet its own goals on hiring three of the four program target groups the disabled and visible the University increased aboriginal hiring among full time staff to 44 Between 1989 and up from the number of disabled employees Rose to 112 by 1992 from 70 in visible minorities accounted for 313 full time staff in up from 187 in University president Arnold Naimark admitted More must be done to hire but said the slow Progress int for want of at a time when were trying to increase the representation of our ability to hire is being constrained by he if s going much More slowly than i would have but Vaise Genser said not even so per cent of new hiring Are ;