Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 12, 2007, Winnipeg, Manitoba a4 Winnipeg free press wednesday december 12, 2007 top news native family a ordeal prompts Call for change motion named after Manitoba boy but he languished in Winnipeg his by sue Bailey Mother separated from the rest of their family while Federal and provincial offi o Ottawa ? Jordan Anderson was vials squabble Over responsibility for just five years old when he died everything from a wheelchair ramp to in a Winnipeg Hospital As Bureau a Shower head. Crafts fought Over even the smallest Virginia Anderson 45, died eight costs of moving him Home. Months after her son. Winnipeg police his 2005 death at a big City that is an found her passed out in a bus terminal 800-Kilometre drive South of the Norway her husband said. House Cree nation has inspired a motion the doctors told me she drank. That a that maps of All stripes Are set to support wednesday. The couple had been apart for months Jordan a principle Aims to ensure that at a time with Virginia in Winnipeg and jurisdictional wrangling does to deny or Ernest Back Home caring for their other delay services for severely disabled Chil-10 children. Dren from native reserves across Cana their daughter Jerleen 24, says med a. The idea is that the first Agency Mically fragile kids should not have to involved ? Federal or provincial ? move into Foster care or hospitals far booted technician fighting would pay for required care first and from reserves to get the help they need. Settle any funding disputes second. Our family was separated. My mom but Jordan a father Ernest fears the left and my dad stayed at Home to take non binding motion will be Little More care of the kids. And that should to have than a moral Victory. Had to he and other parents of special needs Indian affairs minister Chuck Strahl kids travelled to Ottawa for a National issued a Brief statement tuesday in mandatory retirement policy station for 27 years when he was told lowing the Lead of the provinces. By Lindsey Wiebe meeting of chiefs tuesday. They urged response to their complaints. About the mandatory retirement poli Why has to it gone Federal he the government sometimes through we Are currently exploring options by shortly before his birthday. Asked. The government is dragging tears of frustration to Lead efforts to with our Federal and provincial coun a Man forced to retire when he turned the Way it was presented to me its solve hundreds of similar disputes. Ter parts and will need to examine the65 Hopes arbitration can result in Job was quite Blunt he said. Under the Federal human rights some wonder if a class action lawsuit most efficient Way to Settle disputes Security for former coworkers afraid Calls to tvs human resources act people can be forced to leave will be needed to Spur real action. He said. They too might get the Pink slip. Department weren to returned tuesday. Their jobs once they reach the nor by working together with our first Terry Kenny a former ctr win lawyers representing the network at Mal age of retirement for employees rare genetic disorder nations partners we Hope that we Cann Peg employee retired against his tuesdays hearing declined to com working in positions similar to the avoid future problems and resolve Dis wishes in september 2006, after being ment saying the Case is an internal position of that for now Jordan a principle is for the told employees could to work past their personnel matter. Kenny does to want his Job Back Benefit of children across the country Manitoba family services and hous?65th birthday under a company policy. Cep has pointed out that other ctr because he has since found work with born with disabilities Ernest Anderson ing minister Gord Mackintosh is hoping if my health is Good and i have the employees work beyond the age of 65, another television station. But the 66-said of the five year ordeal that split his ability and the skills Why because of such As National Anchor Lloyd Robert year old said he wants to give people family and drove his wife Virginia to Jordan a Home province will be the first to implement the principle named in his my age am i booted out the door said son who a in his 70s. Choices behind me like one con an alcoholic death. Honour. Mackintosh said tuesday he Kenny an engineering technician. Baturin said the aim of the hearing corned former colleague who la turn Jordan was born with a rare genetic Kenny is currently involved in an is to find out whether tvs policy is 65 in february. Disorder that left him unable to talk believes the two governments will be Able to negotiate a Deal for a binding Dis arbitration hearing Over the matter right or wrong and collect any Back last August the Canadian human walk or breathe on his own. Pute mechanism Early in the new year. And talks Are set to wrap up today pay owed to Kenny. Rights tribunal ruled in air Canadas its nobody a fault Anderson said in Between the station and the comm in Manitoba mandatory retirement favour in the Case of two pilots who an interview. We Don to choose in life he said those talks Are awaiting a fed eral government analysis of the differ a cations Energy and paper workers at 65 has to been allowed for roughly were forced to retire at age 60. The yet it happens. And that a what i faced fences in services on and off Reserve Union which represents him. 30 years. Ontario Quebec pilots were forced out at the Normal with which he was told this week is almost he and his wife weren to drinkers or we re doing it not just for Terry a Saskatchewan Nova Scotia and British age for people in their position the Tri Complete. Situation but for those that follow As Columbia have either enacted Laws Bunal ruled and so did not face age smokers before grappling with years of we have cautious optimism that Man Well Cep National representative Lea Banning the practice or Are planning discrimination. Like Kenny the pilots separation and an indifferent funding Ito a will be moving to some very Seri Baturin said. To have such Laws in place by 2009. Were covered by Federal not Provin system that left them both emotionally Ous Deal so we can get Jordan a principle its the first time she a encountered however ctr and other Broad Cial Law. Ruined he said. Working for Manitoba children said such a Rule in her 11 years with the casters fall under Federal regulations Jordan was medically cleared to leave. Mackintosh. Union she added. Much like airlines. That has Kenny Hospital for a specially equipped Foster Kenny said he a been working at the wondering Why the feds Arent Fol with files from Canadian press Home near his Reserve two years before ? Canadian press with files from Mia Rabson he died. Chief fears inac upheaval will Impact communities involved. Isolated reserves without permanent Road Access that agreement would allow the province to by Mia Rabson an interim management team has been appoint rely heavily on the Winter roads to truck in building implement Jordan a principle named after a Little de headed by a former associate regional director supplies non perishable food items gasoline and boy who died in Winnipeg while Ottawa and Mani fears flew in Manitoba tuesday that everything for inac a offices in Saskatchewan. Major equipment such As appliances and Snowma Toba fought Over who would pay for the special from Winter Road transports to health services for but Assembly of Manitoba chiefs Ron Evans said Biles. Airlifting the items makes them Cost Prohic equipment needed to allow him to return to his aboriginal kids could be impacted by the upheaval tuesday he is concerned the interim team will not Tive to already poor first nations families. Home in Norway House. At the Manitoba regional offices of Indian and be Able to take Over without serious disruptions to but the chiefs and Council need inac approval but Mackintosh said the negotiations rest on the Northern affairs Canada. Already slow moving files including finance for things like How Many houses they can build in a outcome of an analysis undertaken by inac in Man on monday the top two bureaucrats and a third approval for All items first nations want to trans year before they can order the supplies with con Ito a to determine what the discrepancies Are High ranking manager were escorted out of inac sport during Winter Road season. Tidence they will be paid for. Between on and off Reserve services. Downtown Winnipeg offices and placed on paid the assurances we have been Given Are not Manitoba family services minister Gord Mack we will be watching very carefully in the Hopes leave pending the outcome of an ongoing external exactly giving us Confidence that there wont be a i Tosh is worried the chaos will slow plans to Nego that it will not slow Down any Progress on this audit. Disruption said Evans. For the Winter roads the Tate an agreement with Ottawa to ensure kids living said Mackintosh. The audit is looking at the offices financial prac season is Short. Communities have to order in the on Reserve were Able to get the same health ser. times and the relationships Between various parties materials and the funding has always been vices As those living off Reserve ;