Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 25, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A6 local win mix Iii 2000 mayors task Force seeks ways to raise percentages of ethnic employees civic workforce diversity pushed by Kim Guttormson the City needs to reach out to ethnic communities to find and the mayors task Force on diversity is asking those communities How Best to do mayor Glen Murray said the City has failed to create a workforce that represents the faces of its during a Public forum at Burton Cummings Community Cefi tre last Murray cited vacancies in the transit department As an example of where the City can begin to redress the Hes spoken to the human resources person in the department about going out to various ethnic such As sikh and to let them know there Are jobs a lot of it As a the government Hast Murray Only per cent of the civic work Force in 1999 was per cent were visible per cent had a lot of it As a the government Hast Glen Murray disabilities and 23 per cent were Nick Cumberbatch was invited to sit in on the where they discussed whether the cites labour Force reflected different communities and How City ser vices can be improved for different com i do have an interest with respect to How ethnic communities Are represented within the the self employed Cumberbatch its important All of us in the ethnic communities participate in these discussions and not be seen As always but have a creative change in a positive i have an interest in cultural representation at the management Cumberbatch said Good intentions often fail at the management where choices Are made to hire people who look like those doing the As opposed to considering another cultural Murray said his task Force has the Broad mandate of developing an employ ment management coming up with ideas to build a multicultural com trying to determine Why the City fails in hiring Young Mak ing recommendations for labour and other Levels of As Well As giving possible insights on the need for More liberalized the 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program that has operated for 29 years is threatening to unleash a Battle Over religious instruction in Manitoba Public Winnipeg school division is Tan gling with the child evangelism Fellowship of Manitoba while trying to dump the growing controversy in the Lap of education minister Drew Cald Winnipeg one trustees want Cald Well to eliminate religious instruction from the Public schools Caldwell has agreed to set up a meeting next month with trustees and Justice min ister Gord Mackintosh to discuss whether adult recruiters can be pre vented from talking to Young educators elsewhere in Canada say that provincial Laws on i school Reli Gion Are All Over the and there unaware of a situation that duplicates it varies significantly from province to said Elizabeth spokeswoman for the Cana Dian school boards in some nothing is entrenched in Section 80 of the Public schools act says that if the parents or guardians of 25 kids in a school sign a the local school Board must pass a bylaw allowing religious the child evangelism Fellowship of Manitoba conducts Bible studies in up to 75 schools each usually once a week at lunch the emerging flashpoint is la Verendrye school in fort where a Fellowship organizer volunteering in the school distributed a recruiting letter to All children in grades 1 to angry parents Are flooding trustees with letters and organizing a petition demanding that the scheduled to Start get the i do not think this should be in the declared trustee Anita there is As much concern about the process they use to get into the schools As their being in Caldwell says hell Only consider re jigging the act if he hears from other school Mackintosh press Secretary refused to make the minister Avail Able for she said theres no threat to and Doest see Why anyone wants to involve governments Are afraid of touch ing trustee Mario Santos Winnipeg one trustees acknowledge that the evangelist group has provincial Law on its Side and the boards hands Are but there urging disgruntled la Verendrye parents to come to their 24 meeting to keep the heat on Board chairwoman Lori Johnson says organizers have been standing just outside school approaching Young handing them materials and proselytizing in a bid to have the kids ask their parents to sign permission writing and religion i Section 80 Rotthe Public schools act says that if parents or guardians of 25 kids in a school 10 parents if the school has one or two classrooms sign a the school Board must pass a bylaw authorizing religious instruction within the i the child evangelism Fellowship of Manitoba conducts religious instruction in about 75 Public schools each usually once a week at lunch i in the last nine there have been Only nine Winnipeg school division schools with a total of 16 oneyear religious instruction for two of those no school took i so far this the school Board has passed bylaws after parents at Sargent Park and la Verendrye schools met the criteria within the Public schools Inkster school goes before the Board 3 for the bylaws third but administrators Are checking out reports that some of the 25 parents May have withdrawn their this is a very Basic and very Seri Ous safety Johnson recently told her la Verendrye principal admits she erred in letting a Parent Volunteer Send Home recruiting letters without having read it but Johnson says the same thing happened at Inkster school without the principals As i understand a Par ent went up to children and handed out the Johnson depending on which senior executive of the evangelism Fellowship you talk the group never directly approaches children to recruit sees it As a legitimate and Legal or did it once in 1997 and expelled the Parent la Verendrye Parent Megan Latouche wants to know what Chil Dren in the Bible study classes will be told about the beliefs of their and whether division policies on tolerance will be i dont know what these children Are going to be in someone has to Monitor Latouche but Bev the fellowships director of said what goes on is none of la touches and she wont be allowed into the parents Are openly invited to attend our classes if their children Are if their children Are not they have no business being but even though the program is held in school during the school its Content is beyond Winnipeg school divisions we cannot Check we have Noth ing to do with we have no right to examine their materials Santos i dont think it has a place in during the school Peri said la Verendrye Parent Steve provinces vary on religion Issue Manitoba Public school Bible studies kerfuffle cant happen under Ontario As conservative As Ontario government has been in recent religion is Ontario parents Are but the Law essentially keeps religion out of the Patrici Keewatin school District director of education Dave Mcleod said from the key is he said religion is out of Bounds if it gives one group More attention than we cant have any group offer religious instruction or distribute mate Mcleod Saskatchewan has legislation from 1905 allowing up to 30 minutes a toy for classroom religious but it tends to be used Only by roman Catholic separate Public schools and a handful of Rural said Craig executive director of the Saskatchewan school trustees Asso Alberta has a unique said David executive director of the Alberta school boards the act provides for what we Call alternative programs Cul or subject which allows some Public schools to be oper ated through local Choice As Christian schools with religious wherever these things have Hap Treyve always been Contro said Alan general counsel for the Canadian civil Liber ties ;