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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 27, 2015, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE A6 A 6 WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 27, 2015 MANITOBA winnipegfreepress. com If someone you know has Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia, we’re here to help. Call 204- 943- 6622 or 1- 800- 378- 6699 alzheimer. mb. ca 1700 Waverley Street In the Waverley Automall at Bishop Grandin 204- 269- 5555 “ Drive a Little, Save a Lot!” 1- 877- 990- 1717 Recognized as one of the Most Energy Efficient Dealerships in North America! WIN- WIN has a clearout price your Brain will love too. WIN 0 % 96 FINANCING † MONTHS GET FOR UP TO ON SELECT 2015 MODELS GET UP TO 12 WEEKLY PAYMENTS Ä ON US! ON SELECT 2015 MODELS The Hyundai your Heart wants www. murrayhyundai. com Dealer Permit # 4008. All Prices as based on cash prices and are plus PST and GST. . 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Attendees also heard about Manitoba’s new open adoption records that could help Sixties Scoop adoptees connect with birth families and how Australia atoned for its treatment of indigenous children. Selena Kern, who is from Brokenhead Ojibway Nation but was adopted as a toddler to a Pennsylvania family, said the conference was one of many steps in reconnecting Sixties Scoop adoptees with their past and raising awareness about the Adopt Indian and Métis program. “ The one thing I heard over and over was how they all felt so isolated,” said Kern, secretarytreasurer of the Manitoba Indigenous Adoptees Coalition. “ Growing up as the only little brown face in the room.” In June, Premier Greg Selinger apologized for the Sixties Scoop at a ceremony at the legislature, the first such apology in Canada. Beginning in the 1960s, roughly 20,000 aboriginal children were taken from their homes and adopted to white families, often out of province or into the United States. Marcel Balfour, MIAC’s vice- president and a conference organizer, said finding ways to put the apology into action is the next step. Balfour said the Sixties Scoop isn’t as widely understood as residential schools, and there are many avenues for academic research on how the Adopt Indian and Métis program operated and its long- term effects on adoptees. Many at the conference also talked about the need for programs to help adoptees relearn their indigenous languages and cultural practices. Also up for discussion was a possible compensation settlement with government and participation in a class action lawsuit such as the one that sparked the Indian Residential Schools agreement. “ I’m sitting on the fence on that because you can’t put a dollar figure on people’s trauma,” said Kern. “ Money can’t bring back the lost years. Money can’t bring back language.” Class- action lawsuits against the federal government have been filed in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia. Another one in Ontario filed in 2009 is the furthest along. Balfour said MIAC has not yet taken a formal position on litigation, and many questions remain about jurisdiction. Balfour wondered if a collective remedy might make more sense than individual payments such as those made to residential schools survivors. “ Maybe whittling it down to a cheque isn’t the right approach,” he said. Instead, he said there might be merit in negotiations with the provincial and federal government on a more comprehensive agreement that could replace a long, drawn- out legal battle spread over several provinces. maryagnes. welch@ freepress. mb. ca FIREFIGHTERS were busy with two weekend blazes in St. Boniface, one of which sent a firefighter to hospital. The first fire began just after 5: 30 a. m. Saturday in a vacant house at 131 Hebert St. The fire appears to have begun in the outside rear of the house and travelled to the attic, ultimately burning through the roof. A firefighter was taken to hospital in stable condition. The second fire started at about 1: 40 a. m. Sunday at a small, three- storey apartment block on Marion Street near Youville Street. The fire started in a third- floor suite, and smoke and water damaged the suites below. It’s not yet clear what started the blaze, but there were no injuries. There was no damage estimate for either blaze. Both are under investigation. 2 fires probed in St. Boniface Sixties Scoop adoptees mull what comes next After apology, group eyes cultural ties, ways to heal By Mary Agnes Welch JOHN WOODS / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger apologized for the Sixties Scoop on June 18. A_ 06_ Jul- 27- 15_ FP_ 01. indd A6 7/ 26/ 15 8: 57: 46 PM ;