#michele audette

[the-firebird69]

Her son said wow to a few of these not all of them when was the one with the Africans were making a geodesic dome and moving around that was fascinating and he says they could do that and they have more than just that and for environment Bailey and for Barnum & Bailey and they're interested because they do circuses overseas and they said we want you to post it so maybe it'll be able to look at it and they've seen it because he's looking at it and they're interested and maybe someone will look for them but really there's other people here but these are people who are around him usually and they are but that's fascinating stuff some of it with the roller blades is pretty cool I found some other things to be very interesting when he climb the wall and disappeared almost the wall is not straight up but it is a feat of strength and physical agility that's really not normal and people want to know how he does it and be an acrobat that's how really they have to practice what they do it yeah there's some other ones that are really cool really these people can sign up tomorrow and they're getting the idea our son is thinking of doing it and it's starting to think about it they found out that his name is actually Less Kraven and the character kraven is coming out and yeah he was wrestling today it looks like Dave audette and he's supposed to people are imitating Michelle audette and they're doing stuff she does like Madonna and she sounded more like that then her mother and people were amazed and Madonna actually gets it and really dan got it and Garth. There should be big alerts going out soon and either the max are going to do it and fake it or the clans are back and it's not a free choice it's what really is happening and our two kids say we had children below Trump and they still are and the one before all wants to be out first and one before all and that's their two characters that their son called out their own and they're up there in Canada that's the one that is destroying it's the magician from The avengers and it's played by Trump

Thor Freya

Well I thought you like the character in your child that I hate it now you get that now I get that and you're sitting there deleting us if it's your character doesn't look really big enough though we check the size and it's a smaller one it'll be a sun and he's the one into Mojave with a different character and all of his sons are there and he has a brother I believe. So we mean is if these guys are there we're in trouble but you're in more trouble since whatever they have armies they come here and take care of you already because the big ones aren't up and they're calling you and that's so God damn rude but it's probably real and they did that in westborough and we have never checked but you saw them now I have to get the hell out of here and they don't have to be frozen and something people say isn't it now I got to get out of here it's so stupid

Trump

Olympus they might be frozen because they're growing and yet they can grow like that otherwise it's torture and they agree of course

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Insights from the Top: Interviews with LPL Financial Executives

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Dan Arnold, President and Chief Executive Officer

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Matt Audette, Chief Financial Officer

Matt Audette joined LPL Financial as Chief Financial Officer in 2015. He brings extensive experience in financial management, having previously served as CFO at E*TRADE Financial Corporation. Audette is responsible for managing LPL's financial operations, including financial planning, analysis, and reporting.

Rich Steinmeier, Managing Director and Divisional President, Business Development

Rich Steinmeier is the Managing Director and Divisional President of Business Development at LPL Financial. Since joining the company in 2018, Steinmeier has been instrumental in driving business growth and expanding LPL's network of financial advisors. He oversees the firm's advisor recruiting and business development efforts.

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Sallie Krawcheck serves as an Independent Director on the Board of LPL Financial. With a distinguished career in the financial services industry, including leadership roles at Merrill Lynch and Citigroup, Krawcheck provides valuable insights and governance to the company's strategic initiatives.

Michelle Oroschakoff, Chief Legal Officer

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[the-firebird69]

Trump has made these people our enemies then you should fight them'cause they fell for it easily and the real truth is you're trying to take over and start to fail so they hit us in 9/11 and have been issuing threats ever since and on our friend here he knows it there's not much you can do to show up at every place he tries to complain to it's the most frustrating experience i've ever seen anybody have it's a hold on one of us and we turn into a **** right in front of your eyes when they said how am I supposed to get by none of you stand up to this passive aggressive bully who's so wealthy and I have to we've paid attention to that he says he's been getting big this guy's gonna get pulverized would like to head him off of the pass and these people with these cities are not fooling around and then Trump's neck of the woods they're powerful they can lay him low for days take away his toys mess up his family and have him shot in public as a former president and that's what they're up to it's mostly them is not true but they're doing too so I looked at this report this morning and says do 70 people want him on trial for that crime and you have to prove that someone was improperly elected or appointed in this case it's not true and another good point is anybody can bring someone to trial it just depends what capacity you are declaring you are in the courts declare you are we looked at that he's in the right capacity like a consultant so they dismissed it and they fell for a trick and you can't just dismiss a case it has to be a mistrial unless you dismiss it because both parties agree and in this case they didn't prove that they got that the guy was doing anything that illegal and they didn't make a tie with the case it doesn't tie in with the case but her friend has it right florida is too small and his daughter got it right but probably not for them florida is too small and he'll be ejected to the west coast if she took the blame or the court took the blame now it's gonna go to actual federal court with an actual federal prosecutor because that's us and that's what we're doing. It may not seem it because we put up stuff and it never really happens but what he says is I'm probably stupid I certainly agree with something there is a bunch of these others who are federal prosecutors and that's who it'll be not us we want to be us but we don't want to be the ones doing it and then we're saying we're doing it and we're like trump in a way asking to hit by the **** moron or something we're not doing. No I'm kinda angry 'cause he's saying it and he's right but I'm more angry that he's correct why stand up and say we're doing that and it's because the little boy over there BJA is having us do it and really he's gonna be the federal prosecutor or someone of his cadre and they really should this guy's an ****. I need to tell you we do this all the time to the kid and he hates us he thinks we're not gonna do anything even though Mike too is about the money he's very stingy he did something that really were acting like it's like that and it really is and we're not doing stuff like it really is and we're dying and we can't figure that out either what he's saying is we're getting behind because people are dying david Audette had a killer program and Michelle Audette it's not enough you need an army to keep people from keeping the code they might hear and stuff like that or capture it's gonna be all over if we don't get this one single concept. It won't work for us we're not even that bright we're not programmers. I ran around for like a year thinking it was and it's up there in Saturn it's not even here it's using proper protocol he says so I don't know what the hell we're thinking and saying These things and doing stupid **** it really has to stop and I'm on my side on this and we're gonna have to pull over and collect ourselves

daniel

We are cow towing to this guy trump and says he can get away with it and he's doing it and he's using it on this and he manipulated the others and he's very wrong is very lame I do see my grand nephews point we're not doing a damn thing still little Daniel got up he started doing the evidence act wrong thing again you know even though he said it in the top part so what happens is he says it then they find Brian it's annoying and not done on purpose and it's wizardry OK now you are disturbing him on purpose and does **** for you does nothing there's you Mike too'cause you can't handle complimenting the truck putting all this **** out there is annoying him too he says try and get it right and the day might go better you do this **** and you don't do anything all day and it's not trump doing it it's kinda like we're gonna do this and we'll be sitting on the side of the trail waiting to strike each other it's very stupid so there are a few things that are going to happen and one of them is we're gonna figure out somehow that Dave and Carol were ahead of us with certain parts of their program and the max figured it out and we're getting cut out of the picture by handing our friend Garrett Simons we're handing him assignments that we used to do really big stuff and we're letting it go and he's doing it and we don't think so because we're a big mouth losers and I don't know when this is gonna end or how but right now I don't have much confidence that you losers are gonna do anything different so I don't really care about you and what happens but I do care about me and my program and people in it and I know that you have to go means like you have to leave I can't believe how bad you are at this it's staring him in the face telling him that he doesn't have a future doesn't have a chance and all this **** that nobody would withstand for any reason at all and you expect him to like do something for you and he's just doing what he wants. Your filthy rotten losers the word is correctly used these people here are not a satisfactory stasis for our friend in any way it is very far off on a lot of marks and it's an emergency and people come in and they make it worse and that's not working either we need them the hell outta here and they are attacking us but everything aside what they're doing is **** attacking us as **** as we've done somewhat but they haven't declared war tonight they're gonna double up on what was last night and all week long they said and by the end of it they're not gonna be alive. So we have to have a meeting with more than just me and my kids

mac adday

Olympus

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Indigenous women fearful, outraged over racism and threats online: MMIWG commissioner

Indigenous women fearful, outraged over racism and threats online: MMIWG commissioner

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Michele Audette feels disappointed when she looks online and sees a barrage of violent threats towards Indigenous women.

“It made me so mad that we tolerate this. There’s no real … reprimand,” says Audette, who was one of the commissioners for the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

As she gently places her eight-month-old grandchild into her vehicle in…

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An Open Letter to Michèle Audette, Commissioner for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Nia:wen to AbTeC for allowing me to post here. It was a bit too long for a FaceBook post.

A couple of months ago, I was invited by Ondinnok to do a curtain raiser. In theatre, that’s a short performance before the main show. Catherine Joncas, director of Montreal’s first Indigenous theatre company, said she wanted to respond to Montreal’s 375th celebrations with some reminders that Indigenous presence in this place dates much longer than that. She organized an entire series called “5 minutes pour que je te dise” or, in English, “5 minutes so I can tell you”

As soon as I had heard that Michele Audette would be a Commissioner, I wanted to write her a letter.  I took this opportunity to do so. I simply stood in front of the audience, gave a brief introduction, and read it (slightly shortened, as I went way over 5 minutes!) in French. Merci to Karina Chagnon for her careful translation.

Skennen sewakwekon, Skawennati iontiats.

Bonsoir tout le monde, my name is Skawennati. I am a Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) of Kahnawake and am of the turtle clan. My mother is Brenda Dearhouse and my father is Luigi Fragnito. I wish to share with you a letter I have written to Michèle Audette, commissioner for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

Dear Michèle,

How are you? It has been many moons since we last spoke. I have seen in the news that you have been active, as usual! I was thrilled to learn that you would be one of the commissioners for the inquiry on the missing and murdered Indigenous women.

I have this great photograph of the two of us. It was taken in 1997, I think. We already had known each other for a couple of years. While working the Centre d’Amitie Autochtone, I had organized a march for the Journée National d’Action. I believe you were the president of Quebec Native Women at the time, and I asked you to be one of the speakers. Though I don’t remember what you said that day, I remember that you addressed the crowd in French, and I translated your words into English. I did not notice another friend, Jamie Riddell, taking pictures, but several weeks later, he gave me this photo. In it we are standing side by side, a team surrounded by our community. I hold a megaphone to my mouth, making sure your words reach the whole crowd.

I am writing today with my thoughts about why Indigenous women are disappearing.

Like me, you are the daughter of an Indigenous mother and a non-Native father. Like me, you understand how the Canadian government, through its legal system, has been complicit in the deaths of Indigenous women. Even us.

As you know, it was the Indian Act, enacted in 1876, that stripped Indian women of their status if they married non-Native men. The children of these marriages, likewise, did not have Indian status. (Of course, you also know that the converse was not true: Indian men who married non-Native women did not lose their status; Not only that, their wives gained status, and so did their children.)

Today we know that this law was meant to disrupt the matrilineal system, and, by extension, Native societies.

In effect, this law legally killed Native women, and their children. It sent a strong message across the land that Indigenous women needed to be eliminated in order for Canada to survive.

In 1985 Bill C-31 reinstated those women like our mothers, and their children. Finally, Michel, you and I were Indian in the eyes of the Federal government.

However, that amendment to the Indian Act was unable to change the original message: that Native women have no value, and should disappear.

In Kahnawake, where I was born, the Band Council refused to put my mother, myself and my siblings, on their membership list, stating that the Mohawk tradition is “Marry Out, Get Out.” But Mohawks, like the other five nations of the Iroquois confederacy, are supposedly a matrilineal society. Traditionally, when an Iroquois man and woman married, the husband would go and live in the wife’s longhouse, with her mother and sisters. Still today, clans are passed on through the mother. That tradition of “Marry Out, Get Out” started with the Indian Act.

In 48+ years since her wedding, my mother has witnessed families turning their backs on their daughters, sisters and aunties. She, and women like her, were told by their community that they were no longer wanted nor welcome in the community they had belonged to since birth. One band councilor even had the nerve to say to her group that if they wanted their status back, they should kill their husbands! Words and actions like these, have communicated to my mother, and me, that we were expendable, disposable, worthless.

Michèle, there is no doubt in my mind that this behaviour is connected to the crisis of the missing and murdered Indigenous women in this country. It is a direct legacy of Canada’s deliberate attempts to target Indigenous women in their goal of “killing the Indian”.

My old friend, fellow warrior, now you have the megaphone. And I am still right beside you, as I was 20 years ago. Nia:wen. Thank you for taking up this fight. I know you will make sure my words are heard.

With love and respect, Skawennati

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Michele Audette, commissioner of MMIWG inquiry, among five named to Senate

Michele Audette, commissioner of MMIWG inquiry, among five named to Senate

Michele Audette, one of the commissioners for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, is among the five newest members of the Senate. Source: CP24

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The Manitoba government has rejected a plea for a 24-hour safe space for LGBTQS2 women, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Women and Girls was told Thursday.

“We gave them a proposal for $600,000. They said ‘No,’” said Alaya McIvor, a member of Winnipeg’s trans community.

McIvor voiced concern the inquiry would also close the door to vulnerable people and its recommendations would be ignored.

Commissioner Michele Audette admitted she shared that fear but said she would do everything in her power to overcome government inertia.

“Canada now cannot be ostriches (and say) it doesn’t happen in my yard. It does happen in our territory,” she said of the litany of violence she’s heard from families here this week.

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Missing, murdered indigenous women and girls inquiry holds hearings in Moncton

MONCTON, N.B. -- The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls begins two days of hearings in Moncton, N.B., today.

Commissioner Michele Audette says about 20 family members and survivors are expected to address the hearings.

The federal government set up the inquiry in December 2015 to address the high number of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls.

The commissioners began the inquiry in September 2016 and were hoping to issue a final report by the end of 2018, but the commission is widely expected to ask for a deadline extension.

Last month, the federally-funded commission -- plagued by many staffing changes through its tenure -- lost another executive director.

The commission said Debbie Reid 's departure was a personnel matter and appointed director of operations Calvin Wong as the interim executive director.

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[the-firebird69]

Bradley GT2 Midnight Film

There are a couple looks here that capture the Bradley GT2 flavor and I want us when it's lower down and from behind the other is the side view but it's up high probably 20 ft in the air and you'll see what we mean the front is low and it looks good without a bumper on the outside and you need one on the outside no on the inside would be nice and the front could have some sort of cowl accent. The hood is unique it is redundant but it does have style the rear end needs a lot of work the viewport window is not necessary it should be a two-seater and the engine will be in the front and it should fit and I'm hearing just barely you might have to put a different style Hood should include a way to relocate it and the Volkswagens are four wheel independent and there's a trick to it but it's a little bit more complicated it's much more worthwhile.

Hera

Just statistics and the guys want to do it

Thor Freya

--+horsepower of the Volkswagen beetle the '90s to the 2008ish is 150 horsepower those are the ones we are going to use here in the example

--+original VW speed 0 to 60 is 5.4 seconds

--+original VW quarter mile 11.9 seconds

--+original VW top speed 183 mph

+++changing it over to the Bradley GT2 and that is the body kit the speed kit which is the top end of the exhaust tires rims suspension and complete kit by the way interior exterior all the glass all the trim on the inside and out and control and wiring harnesses included and instructions and maintenance manual

--+Bradley GT2 0 to 60 3.2 seconds

--+Bradley GT2 quarter mile 4.9 seconds

--+Bradley GT2 top speed 380 mph

Cooling kit would come with it but this is far too fast and we would have a limiter put on it and we would have to do the top end somehow or the top end would have to be left out which would make it a little slower that's more realistic without the top end you have to do the exhaust the top speed will be 320 miles per hour but you're still ridiculous and the limiter would probably limit it to 180 mph

Frank Castle hardcastle

These are incredible figures and numbers but the Volkswagen chassis well built in very light and perfect for a supercar and a little reinforcement will be included and we do think the numbers are very close or accurate. This is for the front engine if you put in the rear you get about 10 miles an hour more top speed and it saves off a few points on each 0 to 60 and the quarter mile and it handles better and we'd like him to do the rear engine kit it looks very very cool even with a VW motor because we have trim on it with the kit and a cradle will come with it and it's not that hard to do and he gain confidence that he needs back.

Duke Nukem Blockbuster

We're proceeding with this idea not really other people are though

Olympus

Let me get this straight it's a German car YouTwo designed the Volkswagen both versions and we do mean Hera and CAA and it's true and you both designed the Volkswagen bug and helped market and sell it and create a car that sold more cars in history at that time ever started a massive automobile industry and it was a huge kickoff for parts of world war II and also the VW bug revival was by these two it's their car and the Bradley GT 1 into came from them as an idea to make a kid car and they went to JC and Mary who are David and Carol mostly and or David and Michelle audette and are not brother and sister. And you came up with a design and had them engineer it and make the same shape and configuration with the old Volkswagen which are back then the new one was made it of course and they say yeah that's about it and also the concepts came up with the name and he says I don't remember that but we do and we have it recorded you said this will give him a good time and so far it has and nobody sees it and it's a vehicle and it's theirs the German Volkswagen and it's changed into a Korean a bit and we took a beating. I guess we would have to try and hook into it somehow is their code but they're taking hardware and making hardware and it's not the Bradley no it is but they make the Oshkosh too and I can't really drive a tractor around very funny though they have a couple designs that involve tractors and they're too small. For his growing body. There's a couple other things cuz this is really just rudimentary math he's wise guy about everything won't let us rest because we keep bothering him and it's not supposed to be that way it's trying to save money but he can't and we want to go backwards but he can't afford to buy a car you can't even afford to pay off his credit card so you won't even do this cuz it's a risk and he needs gas in the garage maintenance and it costs too much to have the Kia and he knows how it goes with kit cars and there's no disposable income and no reason to drive around. At all by the way we're there for you a couple years and we do know it's true and he keeps say we're holding there and it's really taught me out and I see the scenario and I see the moon and I see the code is damned awful it's a lot bigger and deeper than people think we have to get to it and work on it. This car idea is valid and I wonder what he's doing with hardware if anything and he was at that party and Bradley is the guy who hit our friend and he came to the house the next day and Brad said it and our friend here said who the hell is that I kept saying it was me neo and it probably isn't so we can take a look at it. The car is exciting the new version is exciting the changes are exciting the Volkswagen is the perfect chassis and fits better than anything else by size and motif and motives there's a lot of problems he doesn't have money storm ruined tons of cars he has no money to make a mistake and yeah I can't afford gas and oil insurance is a burden and those things can be fixed but nobody just trying to force him to do it and he has no kids and we don't have a kid I'm getting to work on that and moreover the code works for us. We did it last time and he didn't have one and we did pretty good but this time around we need someone to help and not hinder we have a lot of work to do to get anywhere near that and I'm putting in that we put this in the pipe

Trump

It's kind of like playing around and trying to get done and doing tons of things but we can do it. This idea is pretty good my friend was thinking about and decided not to say anything and they didn't for a while I'm kind of sat there for 30 minutes and pushed it out he says it didn't go anywhere before which is true. So we have a lot of Volkswagens we save them up we might make a kit so we're getting ready right now

Bja

You see what they're saying it's going to be a lot of work it'll take time and they probably won't do it but we might

The code works for us in a whole bunch of cars of code works for us and we have to decide

Olympus

He says he is not decided before and doesn't want to start so you put a whole bunch of them out there kind of what he did this one fits no matter what happens and it's really cool and when you modified and make it more modern it's very intense looking inside me and goes real fast and it would be instantly famous and he would be famous they might make money on YouTube and he's thinking about that it's a good idea we do have other things to talk about but this is a great idea and they're talking about it so we're going to publish

Thor Freya

It's a whole bunch of code that he left out that way your heat where our son would go and who's talking to after he gets out of the car what he's getting and you guys are right on him telling all the smack and not doing anything but you used to do a lot of it and with this it would be a lot more and intense so that's what we're saying

Frank Castle hardcastle

We need to get out of this wearing but he says we're going out west and we're going to try and go to the Midwest and the car might make him too hot and be stuck doing nothing it's something to think about

Brad

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MMIWG Community Hearing – A Day of Observation at the Truth Gathering Process (a student perspective)

Editor's notes: The hearing was heard at the Radisson Hotel, Winnipeg, MB. Thursday, Oct.19th 3:15pm-5:00pm. Please note that this hearing was live streamed and covered by APTN and other news sources , the hearings were public hearings posted on the MMIWG websiteand that the Inquiry was also producing detailed written content using the real names of the family members affected

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According to their website, the purpose of the National Inquiry for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls’ (MMIWG) community hearings is to find, honour and give life to the truth about MMIWG. They outline that their goal during these hearings is to give families an authentic opportunity to speak about their loved ones in a culturally safe place with access to traditional Indigenous supports such as Elders, medicines, and art. The community hearing in Winnipeg began with an opening ceremony on Monday, October 23rd and continued until Friday October 20th. Seventy families were given the opportunity to tell their stories to the commissioners both privately and publicly. Although they are not able to reopen cases, commissioners stated that they want to know how police investigated cases so they can later question them on their processes.

I was able to sit in on two public hearings on Thursday afternoon. The first was with the family of Eileen Mary Roulette (Houle). Unfortunately, I only witnessed the tail end of the session. The second was the daughter and friends of Linda Bighetty. The hearings took place on the eleventh floor of the Radisson Hotel in downtown Winnipeg.

The room was quiet when I walked in and smelled of freshly burned sage. There were roughly 50-60 community members sitting in the crowd. Boxes of tissues were scattered amongst the audience. There were people in every corner wearing shirts with ‘Health Support’ written on the back. I later found out that the Inquiry had also ensured that an Elder would be made available upon request for anyone seeking emotional or spiritual support. The families were situated at the front of the room directly across from Commissioner Michelle Audette and her team. In between them lay a collection of traditional medicines and objects, including a small fire which sat atop a blanket embroidered with the words “keep the circle strong”. A table filled with hot and cold snacks and beverages was set up in the back of the room. Individual drawings stitched together on a quilt made up the scene’s backdrop at the front. A somber and serious energy filled the room.

Eileen Mary Roulette was murdered in 1966. She was described by her family as happy, loving and a great mother. Her daughter, Erin, sat amongst six other family members and spoke of her personal experience of losing her mother to such a brutal and violent act. She said the murder of her mother lead her into a deep depression which lasted decades and resulted in drug abuse. Erin, now sober, spoke of the incomprehensible pain she felt for many years after her mother’s murder. She said it was not until recently that she felt ready for any type of grief counselling. She credits the love of her children and the support of other friends and family for helping her get through the darkest of days. Erin and her aunt Gertrude, Eileen’s sister, both spoke of their own experiences of domestic violence. Gertrude also talked about losing sleep after finding out about her sister’s murder because every time she closed her eyes she would see the image of her sister lying dead in the bush. It seemed as though each family member was able to speak for as long as they wanted and about anything they wanted. I got the sense that most of the people speaking had never told their stories before and felt as though they had a lot to say. The facilitator, who sat right next to the families, never interrupted a family member and gave them time to pause during difficult moments.

Sonny, another one of Eileen’s family members, spoke about his experiences with the RCMP following Eileen’s disappearance. He said the RCMP did very little to investigate into her case, and it wasn’t until he called and told them he presumed she was dead that they took her case seriously. Sonny, like many of the family members, expressed a deep frustration with the way law enforcement handled the investigation into his loved one’s death. In telling the commissioner that Eileen’s murderer only received 6 years in prison, he stated, “if that’s justice, there is no justice”. Sonny was obviously disheartened by the way Eileen’s death had been dealt with by the authorities. He asked that the commission look seriously into the systemic racism that he believes is prevalent in the RCMP. Eileen’s family also asked that missing and murdered men and boys not be overlooked during the inquiry as they have a male cousin who has been missing since 2014.

Commissioner Michele Audette, who sat across from the family and listened to their testimony, only spoke after it was made clear that the family had expressed everything they wanted to say. In terms of the systemic racism within the criminal justice system, she stated: “we are making sure that Canada is listening”. She acknowledged that law enforcement agencies have not been as quick to respond to Indigenous cases as they are with other missing and murdered individuals. Before hugging and comforting each family member, who the Commissioner referred to as ‘warriors’, the family was presented with eagle feathers collected off of Canadian beach shores.

After a ten-minute break to clean up the used tissues from Eileen’s family, the daughter of Linda Bighetty, Jenny Lay, was walked into the room surrounded five of her friends and family. Before the proceeding begin, a traditional song and drum ceremony was performed in honour of Jenny’s strength and courageousness. I was surprised to hear many people from the audience join in on signing the Anishinaabe song. Jenny was then asked by one of the Inquiry’s staff to solemnly tell the full truth for which she replied in the affirmative. She was then told she could feel free to say anything she felt she needed to say. Jenny proceeded to tell the traumatic story of her mother’s murder at the hands of her father.

Jenny, now a twenty-three-year-old woman, was only four when her mother Linda was reported missing after not being accounted for at the women’s shelter where she had been staying. Linda was transitioning from a shelter in Grande Prairie, Alberta to her home reserve in Nelson House, Manitoba. Jenny and her older sister were living with their father in Grande Prairie at the time. The police immediately went to Jenny’s father’s home where it was reported that they could see Linda’s foot through the window hanging out from under the futon. Her body was found naked, bound and covered in blankets. Records show that the scene was consistent with domestic abuse and homicide. Jenny’s father was shortly arrested, but was quickly granted bail. Her father died by suicide while awaiting trial.

Jenny, who is now finishing up a post-secondary degree in Winnipeg, only ever knew of the details of her mother’s case from her father’s family members. This lead to growing up with conflicting and confusing stories about the murder. She had gone to the RCMP years ago to ask about her mother’s case but was told that she would have to wait until 20 years after the murder. Jenny wished she had been given the unbiased details of Linda’s murder by the police when she was younger. She was told that she was too young to hear about the murder, but she argued that children who lose their parents at any age are already traumatized and shielding them from the details does more harm than good. She also thought it was vital to tell children about such details because it could prevent similar experiences in the future.

Jenny also had some serious criticism over the way she was treated after the murder. Her and her sister went to family court to determine who would get their custody. Some family members who wanted to adopt them had seriously abused the children in the past. She was disturbed that no one did a background check into some of these family members. They did eventually live with their great aunt, who Jenny said did her best to raise them. The girls also never received any sort of professional help after the matter. They were never seen by a psychologist, a counselor or social worker. No one ever asked her how she was doing. She wished she had been able to build up a relationship with someone who could have helped her gain the life skills her parents were no longer able to teach her.

Along with telling her story, Jenny made recommendations to the Inquiry. Along with providing unbiased information and funding long-term grief counselling to victim’s families, she would like to see more support in regard to women’s shelters. Jenny believes that if Linda had been given adequate resources at the shelter, such as someone to accompany her back to her ex-husband's house where she was murdered, she would still be alive today. She is concerned with the high rates of domestic abuse in Canada, and believes that improving women’s shelters would curve these rates. Jenny also commented on the lack of shelters on reserves in Manitoba. This forces women who are experiencing abuse to move to unfamiliar urban centres such as Winnipeg, which can make them more vulnerable to victimization.

Jenny wants to see more bursaries and scholarships going to help educate the families of MMIWG. She also asked that the children of MMIWG be given more trauma support and resources by the Inquiry. Jenny, like many other children of MMIWG, are the ones who have to carry around the burden of her mother’s murder for the rest of her life. Jenny feels she had been forgotten in the system and now again in the Inquiry.

The emotional two-hour long session ended with a prayer by an Elder. Following the session, I was curious to know how the family hearings had been received by the families. I reviewed some of the sessions which were recorded by APTN and found many family members to be highly critical of the Commissioner’s conduct and the likely outcomes of the Inquiry.

In general, families of MMIWG are concerned with issues such as: condensing the stories of more than 70 families into only 5 days of hearings; providing enough time for each family member to speak; funding to bring families to the meetings; families who cannot access the technology required to get in touch with the Inquiry; establishing harm reduction and safe places for survivors and people still in abusive situations; the increasing number of MMIWG in Manitoba in particular; families who have not been made aware of the hearings but who wish to speak; re-traumatization of victims; significant follow up with families; lack of awareness education to men and non-Indigenous citizens; lack of quantifiable justice for victims; unlikely penalties for perpetrators; increasing rates of sex trafficking; lack of educational opportunities for Indigenous youth; inaccessible healing spaces; too many victims and families and not enough resources; and lack of transparency and information from the Inquiry. This is not a comprehensive list; each hearing involved families asking for more from the Inquiry.

It will be interesting to see how the Commissioners use the information gathered at the family hearings to inform the MMIWG report. The goal is that the Inquiry will touch on and improve all the areas of concern identified by the families. As time passes and more issues arise surrounding the Inquiry, it seems as though this goal is getting farther and farther out of reach. Fortunately, survivors remain strong and committed to bringing justice to MMIWG and the community will not let them be easily forgotten.

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MMIWG Community Hearing – A Day of Observation at the Truth Gathering Process (a student perspective)

Editor's notes: The hearing was heard at the Radisson Hotel, Winnipeg, MB. Thursday, Oct.19th 3:15pm-5:00pm. Please note that this hearing was live streamed and covered by APTN and other news sources , the hearings were public hearings posted on the MMIWG websiteand that the Inquiry was also producing detailed written content using the real names of the family members affected

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According to their website, the purpose of the National Inquiry for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls’ (MMIWG) community hearings is to find, honour and give life to the truth about MMIWG. They outline that their goal during these hearings is to give families an authentic opportunity to speak about their loved ones in a culturally safe place with access to traditional Indigenous supports such as Elders, medicines, and art. The community hearing in Winnipeg began with an opening ceremony on Monday, October 23rd and continued until Friday October 20th. Seventy families were given the opportunity to tell their stories to the commissioners both privately and publicly. Although they are not able to reopen cases, commissioners stated that they want to know how police investigated cases so they can later question them on their processes.

I was able to sit in on two public hearings on Thursday afternoon. The first was with the family of Eileen Mary Roulette (Houle). Unfortunately, I only witnessed the tail end of the session. The second was the daughter and friends of Linda Bighetty. The hearings took place on the eleventh floor of the Radisson Hotel in downtown Winnipeg.

The room was quiet when I walked in and smelled of freshly burned sage. There were roughly 50-60 community members sitting in the crowd. Boxes of tissues were scattered amongst the audience. There were people in every corner wearing shirts with ‘Health Support’ written on the back. I later found out that the Inquiry had also ensured that an Elder would be made available upon request for anyone seeking emotional or spiritual support. The families were situated at the front of the room directly across from Commissioner Michelle Audette and her team. In between them lay a collection of traditional medicines and objects, including a small fire which sat atop a blanket embroidered with the words “keep the circle strong”. A table filled with hot and cold snacks and beverages was set up in the back of the room. Individual drawings stitched together on a quilt made up the scene’s backdrop at the front. A somber and serious energy filled the room.

Eileen Mary Roulette was murdered in 1966. She was described by her family as happy, loving and a great mother. Her daughter, Erin, sat amongst six other family members and spoke of her personal experience of losing her mother to such a brutal and violent act. She said the murder of her mother lead her into a deep depression which lasted decades and resulted in drug abuse. Erin, now sober, spoke of the incomprehensible pain she felt for many years after her mother’s murder. She said it was not until recently that she felt ready for any type of grief counselling. She credits the love of her children and the support of other friends and family for helping her get through the darkest of days. Erin and her aunt Gertrude, Eileen’s sister, both spoke of their own experiences of domestic violence. Gertrude also talked about losing sleep after finding out about her sister’s murder because every time she closed her eyes she would see the image of her sister lying dead in the bush. It seemed as though each family member was able to speak for as long as they wanted and about anything they wanted. I got the sense that most of the people speaking had never told their stories before and felt as though they had a lot to say. The facilitator, who sat right next to the families, never interrupted a family member and gave them time to pause during difficult moments.

Sonny, another one of Eileen’s family members, spoke about his experiences with the RCMP following Eileen’s disappearance. He said the RCMP did very little to investigate into her case, and it wasn’t until he called and told them he presumed she was dead that they took her case seriously. Sonny, like many of the family members, expressed a deep frustration with the way law enforcement handled the investigation into his loved one’s death. In telling the commissioner that Eileen’s murderer only received 6 years in prison, he stated, “if that’s justice, there is no justice”. Sonny was obviously disheartened by the way Eileen’s death had been dealt with by the authorities. He asked that the commission look seriously into the systemic racism that he believes is prevalent in the RCMP. Eileen’s family also asked that missing and murdered men and boys not be overlooked during the inquiry as they have a male cousin who has been missing since 2014.

Commissioner Michele Audette, who sat across from the family and listened to their testimony, only spoke after it was made clear that the family had expressed everything they wanted to say. In terms of the systemic racism within the criminal justice system, she stated: “we are making sure that Canada is listening”. She acknowledged that law enforcement agencies have not been as quick to respond to Indigenous cases as they are with other missing and murdered individuals. Before hugging and comforting each family member, who the Commissioner referred to as ‘warriors’, the family was presented with eagle feathers collected off of Canadian beach shores.

After a ten-minute break to clean up the used tissues from Eileen’s family, the daughter of Linda Bighetty, Jenny Lay, was walked into the room surrounded five of her friends and family. Before the proceeding begin, a traditional song and drum ceremony was performed in honour of Jenny’s strength and courageousness. I was surprised to hear many people from the audience join in on signing the Anishinaabe song. Jenny was then asked by one of the Inquiry’s staff to solemnly tell the full truth for which she replied in the affirmative. She was then told she could feel free to say anything she felt she needed to say. Jenny proceeded to tell the traumatic story of her mother’s murder at the hands of her father.

Jenny, now a twenty-three-year-old woman, was only four when her mother Linda was reported missing after not being accounted for at the women’s shelter where she had been staying. Linda was transitioning from a shelter in Grande Prairie, Alberta to her home reserve in Nelson House, Manitoba. Jenny and her older sister were living with their father in Grande Prairie at the time. The police immediately went to Jenny’s father’s home where it was reported that they could see Linda’s foot through the window hanging out from under the futon. Her body was found naked, bound and covered in blankets. Records show that the scene was consistent with domestic abuse and homicide. Jenny’s father was shortly arrested, but was quickly granted bail. Her father died by suicide while awaiting trial.

Jenny, who is now finishing up a post-secondary degree in Winnipeg, only ever knew of the details of her mother’s case from her father’s family members. This lead to growing up with conflicting and confusing stories about the murder. She had gone to the RCMP years ago to ask about her mother’s case but was told that she would have to wait until 20 years after the murder. Jenny wished she had been given the unbiased details of Linda’s murder by the police when she was younger. She was told that she was too young to hear about the murder, but she argued that children who lose their parents at any age are already traumatized and shielding them from the details does more harm than good. She also thought it was vital to tell children about such details because it could prevent similar experiences in the future.

Jenny also had some serious criticism over the way she was treated after the murder. Her and her sister went to family court to determine who would get their custody. Some family members who wanted to adopt them had seriously abused the children in the past. She was disturbed that no one did a background check into some of these family members. They did eventually live with their great aunt, who Jenny said did her best to raise them. The girls also never received any sort of professional help after the matter. They were never seen by a psychologist, a counselor or social worker. No one ever asked her how she was doing. She wished she had been able to build up a relationship with someone who could have helped her gain the life skills her parents were no longer able to teach her.

Along with telling her story, Jenny made recommendations to the Inquiry. Along with providing unbiased information and funding long-term grief counselling to victim’s families, she would like to see more support in regard to women’s shelters. Jenny believes that if Linda had been given adequate resources at the shelter, such as someone to accompany her back to her ex-husband's house where she was murdered, she would still be alive today. She is concerned with the high rates of domestic abuse in Canada, and believes that improving women’s shelters would curve these rates. Jenny also commented on the lack of shelters on reserves in Manitoba. This forces women who are experiencing abuse to move to unfamiliar urban centres such as Winnipeg, which can make them more vulnerable to victimization.

Jenny wants to see more bursaries and scholarships going to help educate the families of MMIWG. She also asked that the children of MMIWG be given more trauma support and resources by the Inquiry. Jenny, like many other children of MMIWG, are the ones who have to carry around the burden of her mother’s murder for the rest of her life. Jenny feels she had been forgotten in the system and now again in the Inquiry.

The emotional two-hour long session ended with a prayer by an Elder. Following the session, I was curious to know how the family hearings had been received by the families. I reviewed some of the sessions which were recorded by APTN and found many family members to be highly critical of the Commissioner’s conduct and the likely outcomes of the Inquiry.

In general, families of MMIWG are concerned with issues such as: condensing the stories of more than 70 families into only 5 days of hearings; providing enough time for each family member to speak; funding to bring families to the meetings; families who cannot access the technology required to get in touch with the Inquiry; establishing harm reduction and safe places for survivors and people still in abusive situations; the increasing number of MMIWG in Manitoba in particular; families who have not been made aware of the hearings but who wish to speak; re-traumatization of victims; significant follow up with families; lack of awareness education to men and non-Indigenous citizens; lack of quantifiable justice for victims; unlikely penalties for perpetrators; increasing rates of sex trafficking; lack of educational opportunities for Indigenous youth; inaccessible healing spaces; too many victims and families and not enough resources; and lack of transparency and information from the Inquiry. This is not a comprehensive list; each hearing involved families asking for more from the Inquiry.

It will be interesting to see how the Commissioners use the information gathered at the family hearings to inform the MMIWG report. The goal is that the Inquiry will touch on and improve all the areas of concern identified by the families. As time passes and more issues arise surrounding the Inquiry, it seems as though this goal is getting farther and farther out of reach. Fortunately, survivors remain strong and committed to bringing justice to MMIWG and the community will not let them be easily forgotten.

MMIWG Community Hearing – A Day of Observation at the Truth Gathering Process (a student perspective) published first on http://ift.tt/2vSFQ3P

[the-firebird69]

David Guetta - Titanium ft. Sia (Official Video)

Michelle audette wrote this song cuz she know what he wrote in the letter is not true nobody really wrote the song yeah they did but this letter comes out far after the song but that's what he wrote I'm not made of titanium and he got it from the song to a degree

-the letter is still there in Armstrong it's still in the locker and nobody will touch it in the letter are most of the lyrics from nights in White satin The Moody blues and David audette AKA Jesus Christ was the lead singer and he knew about what was happening and he knew was the who the helper was it was kind of my husband and you're saying that to him a little but he saved the Joel in a sarcastic way and one of the Queen songs that says somebody loves you and it's him because he knows what you're doing it for but Joe Watts he is making fun of you and saying it sure I love you but he loves you because you're way has allowed him to escape and he's almost done he will he will leave

Hera

I kind of know what's in the letter okay I didn't see him write it but I wrote mine and it came out in a similar way already sort of not the whole thing but I pretty much know what he's going to say cuz I know your weaknesses now and he's using them all the time and he said it a little when we were hanging out and he treated you like a little boy

Zues Hera

I suppose so every once in a while and he says no he was telling you what to do. And he was telling me what to do and how to do it and he was discussing things I tell you what it is this guy Dave and he's a giant he's 15 foot tall and he's big and powerful and sharp and he's singing it the song is horrible

Joel Watts he's saying that I'm a beautiful thing and he used to say that too and things like why would I get rid of you and you buried all my children and really they're coming back just to call me a fool now it's not a good sign if you didn't call you a fool cuz you are one I get that too

These are powerful things for him to hear and we better slow down a little you might go up there and take a look and free himself from this slavery of his

Olympus

[the-firebird69]

Donnie Iris "Ah Leah" Live 2002

And he's saying dukakahead is how I remember his name he's on TV and he's the one who is involved with the Aaliyah and function and what it is is this girl wants to pretend that she is Paris Hilton really it's Michelle audette but the plan is to bring back her the real one Mary Magdalene and have her play his wife to draw his wife out if she's not out and with her armies which are pretty big he says and I suddenly get something and to capture the children to threaten them and that's what the function is and they're pushing Trump and his wife to want to be them and he does not get there and doesn't imitate him and he dies and himself and it's actually crucified beforehand if it goes along with the movies and it's me I'm saying about myself day she's starting to think she's starting to think she has to but really we need them out to get the information and really it's stupid and you keep saying the f*** you out to now how about 20 things today isn't and it's true as hell

Trump and we're awful to him and it's our fault it's stupid really we should have been the whole time and he's saying you're bothering me seeing you the computer guy and you don't do anything so we get that

This is horrible it's horrible it's true absolutely true and we don't like that guy the fact that ahead you don't like him his name is do cock ahead anyways this is what's going on and she's going to do the video so we're going to play that

Bja

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[the-firebird69]

I'm going on and these people are messing with this life and little annoying stuff every damn day every few seconds these idiots are doing something dumb. I'll tell you why this guy Trump is a moron you need to go a long time ago but there's a lot of them and he keeps exposing them and people keep getting rid of them and we don't need him to do that his people don't want to die and then we have some they can do and that's what it is and that guy is a moron and doesn't realize he's doing it he thinks he has enough robots and AI in and he really is not good at enough to do anything. And Dave handed him and Mickey and Michelle audette handed her a Minnie mouse and really that's what it is. And this clone on Chicago PD heard it and said he understood it and they have him shooting people and he shot what looks like Trump in the head and it wasn't him it was one of his clothes and it was Dave AKA Dan who shot one of his brothers is a clone and it's because they understand that it is probably just a Mickey and will shut him down because Christ will have control over the robots and that's what's going on here too but now it's come out and it came out and people calling it Disney world and Disneyland

Thor Freya

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[the-firebird69]

This is the area it's the rolling hills in Los Angeles he thinks it's Harmon ridge and a lot of people did and do he's highlighted a huge dagger that might be underground it looks maybe to be one or 200 ft long and that's about right that's about 300 ft long that's not that big but it's very big for people here and you'd have to be pretty huge to use it about 8 Miles high. The point is that this is where her castle will be and it is by Michelle audette and she is the one doing it and she is very evil and wants to harm our son and daughter and badly you can see the ship is Catalina Island underneath and yes to rendezvous with the mothership and they will leave it alone because of who they are and what they can do and he will hit all around you and enjoy doing it he said that's their plan and their shifts to be using would be the 2-50,000 mi ships. And the reason is they want to fool people in to believe that they are them and it's horrible and their pigs. And Trump wants to take over their plan and she wants to go to Antarctica and he is going to get his ass handed to him quite easily

This has started and the son and daughter thinks there's something below additional and it can leave without harming the surface yes and it's very very huge and one of the east coast and one of the West Coast and it is rivaling the searcher and the judge in size and you can see what they are a little bit and the dagger is one of theirs it's one of their young and he's shallow or more shallower it's actually a she he says that it's true it's a daughter and they will be raising them shortly hey this is how and it will be removed before our son and daughter moved to these facilities to live well well he will be about 9 ft and he says that's probably only a year or a year and a half away and that's true I had an inch a month it would be 2 years but really it's going to go faster at times and that's what we said and she will be about 12 ft and will lower herself and her head stays the same size and she's on Venus but they think she's here and so forth and that's for plan and a lot of women want to be her and it will be a bloodbath and a lot of trumps want to be their women and they will die as will they in New York starting yesterday it's a bloodbath and they're at the ones in the bath they are going to all be gone

And it matters all these other things too they're getting rid of them by the time our son moves there he has a lot of wealth a lot more than people will think and he's able to buy it quite easily people want him to at the time to try and take the ship and take Stone chips and be the boss that's what they want to do and there's a bunch of Max competing and foreigners and he sees them from time to time and it's still kind of hellacious he's back in New England and he doesn't like it there and when is if Hera wants to trade but she's going to be on the west coast organizing and it would be bait on the East Coast. And this question is whether they're going to be in the first one first then the second one and we think so maybe two castles and the complexes one would be went with and then the next would be Harvard that's true they're bigger and where is the question New York is a hard place you wasn't there and he wasn't there and it's near where the headless horseman woman was which is odd and the other one is here partially but he would not know where it would be

Thor Freya

Olympus

Is this other people might be going in these other ships and has to do with the castles and what was going on at that time and you might be being retrieved so we're going to check it out

Hera

Zues

If then they fully intend to and it's the max too to have them in both as they have him going in his footsteps

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