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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 28, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba A8 Canada Winnipeg free press monday August 28, 2006 native education Green Leader is no stranger to parliament Hill Federal party elects Elizabeth May by Jennifer Ditchburn o Ottawa ? Elizabeth May a first encounter with the Media was when she was two sitting on her mothers knee at an anti nuclear news conference in Washington . May 52, the new Leader of the Feder Al Green party says she Learned from her mothers example that being a successful activist is All about the people you recruit to your cause. She plans to secure plenty of High profile endorsements in the Lead up to the next election. If we re Able to have both Candi dates and advisers people speaking to Green party policy favourably who come from unexpected sectors ? corporate Canada Trade labour unions first nations leadership ? i think that will communicate to canadians that we re a party that Speaks to a Broad Range of issues May told reporters As the party a convention wrapped up yesterday. May won a decisive Victory on sat urday with 65 per cent of the party a vote. Runner up David Cher Ushenko managed 33 per cent of ballots. May a attention is firmly fixed on How to raise the party a profile going into the next election which could theoretically happen As Early As this fall depending on the Fate of the minority conservative government. One of her goals is to secure a place in the next televised debates. I think there was enough unhappiness in the last Federal election that we were excluded May said. 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While aboriginal students from across Canada often must travel to go to an off Reserve Public school that offers classes beyond Grade 8 or 9, Southeast collegiate offers a uniquely aboriginal experience because it is owned and operated by the Southeast tribal Council. Attention revel says the schools attention to native culture history language and counselling ? As Well As academics ? is keeping students from dropping out while preparing Many for College or University. At a time when native residential schools Are in the headlines for past physical and sexual abuse and a pro posed Federal compensation agreement revel says Southeast collegiate symbolizes a new positive Era in aboriginal education. We Are a modern Day residential school and our philosophy has always been doing it right revel says from behind his desk hidden under we Are a mountains of papers and files. Modern Day i Don to think residential there a any doubt school the old residential school system was and our an attempt to philosophy assimilate first nations people to has always White culture. Been Here its very doing it much More of an honouring of Cul right ? Ture and under standing How our ? principal Don students can devel revel of the skill sets to either function within first nations culture at Home or in society As Multi cultural As it is in enrolment at the school has been expanding rapidly since its doors opened 11 years ago. When revel joined the staff seven years ago the school had about 80 Stu dents and a retention rate that hovered around 50 per cent. Now the school turns away Between 50 and 75 students a year. Revel believes Southeast has succeeded where Public schools have failed because staff directly address some of the main reasons Why students return to their reserves without graduating. We provide a Home says revel. Need somebody we Tell staff when they Are hired they re going to be parents to kids who Are 200 to 700 Miles away from Home and who Are going to suffer loneliness and need somebody to identify Pau Ingrassi first nation a Fly in Community about 300 Kilometres Northeast of Winnipeg will Send its entire Grade 10 class of nine students to Southeast collegiate. The Community has Long struggled with solvent and alcohol abuse with one in five of the 450 residents considered a chronic solvent addict. Social worker Eric Kennedy says the students Are counting the Days until they leave Home while their parents Are relieved they la know where they Are and who is caring for them. Last year in Manitoba 1,249 students left their reserves for High school ? with 740 of those coming Winnipeg says a spokesman for the department of Indi an and Northern affairs. Those who Don to go to a boarding school Are part of the departments Pri vate Home placement program. The Stu dents choose the Public school they want to attend and find their own accommodation which is covered by the depart ment. But after seeing Many children drop out within weeks when left on their own to find a school in Winnipeg Kennedy says he Hopes the Grade 10 class heading to Southeast will become an example for the younger kids still at Home proving there is a Way to continue their Educa Tion away from solvents. Kennedy says the emphasis on native culture is the key to keeping the kids in class. When i walk through the doors it brings Back that i a proud of who i am being native and i think that a what a so unique says Kennedy. ? Canadian press would speak on behalf of the Sierra club of Canada. May would pro actively Contact reporters who covered the environmental beat and her press releases were regularly found on news room fax machines. She intends to run in the Nova Scotia Riding of Cape Breton Canso. Raised in Connecticut she moved to the Island while in University. The party has run full slates in the last two Federal elections but has not come close to winning a seat. The greens garnered 664,000 votes in the january election or 4.5 per cent of the vote. Because of new Federal financing rules in effect for both elections the party found itself on much stronger financial footing. By surpassing the two per cent threshold required for party financing under elections Canada rules the greens were eligible for $1.75 for each vote annually. That worked out to More than $1 million. Twenty years ago May ran Cess fully in Nova Scotia for the Short lived Small party. ? Canadian press ;