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PAGE 8 MAY 2016 Do you have any leads? Early in the morning on July 17, 1991, 19-year-old Glenda Morrisseau and her sister were at the Stock Exchange Hotel bar in Winnipeg located on Logan Avenue and Arlington Street. When the bar closed, Glenda and her sister accompanied two friends to their residence nearby on Beacon Street. Around 3:00 a.m. on July 17th, Glenda, her sister and another female friend left the residence to go to their own home, which was only a few blocks away. Glenda told her sister and friend that she wanted to go downtown, and she eventually got into what was described by one witness as a small blue/ grey car and by another as a large brown station wagon. That was the last confirmed time that Glenda was seen alive. Twenty-two days later, on August 7, 1991, Glenda Morrisseau's body was found in an equipment lot at 407 Youville Street in St. Boniface. An autopsy determined that Glenda had been murdered. Glenda, who was an Aboriginal woman with shoulder length, curly black hair, was approximately 5'2 and 110 lbs at the time. Project Devote, the Manitoba task force of the Winnipeg Police Service and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police focusing on missing and murdered exploited person's investigations, encourages anyone who can provide information about Glenda's homicide to contact police. If you have information that can help with this investigation, call investigators on the Project Devote tipline at 1-888-673-3316. If you want to remain anonymous, you can call Manitoba Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Project Devote A mong other things, anyone with a complaint about the service, lack of it or downright abuse has to file a complaint with the Taxicab Board. Do not call the taxicab company involved because that isn't going to get you anywhere and the Taxicab Board will have no record of your complaint. Here's what I think after trying to attend the Taxicab Board hearing that involved CBC Unreserved host Rosanna Deerchild. The current process favours the drivers and the industry more than it does the customers of the taxicab industry. The process itself is closed to the public and I was told in no uncertain terms would I be able to access any minutes from the hearing. Alright, I know it's not a judicial process but in the past I have covered among other things rape and murder trials where I heard and saw some pretty gruesome stuff. And anyone appearing before the board is allowed only one person in as a support person who isn't allowed to speak, ask questions or generally get involved in anyway with the hearing. Meanwhile, the person appearing before the board will face the Taxicab board, various Taxicab board investigators and the cab driver in question. It's an entirely bureaucratic process that intimidated even someone like seasoned journalist Deerchild. And I wonder just how many average Indigenous women would have received calls of support from a sitting premier and mayor? Leah Gazan, a noted community activist, was appointed to the board back in March and she has promised to make the process less intimidating. However, even she said that more people have to come forward. When I interviewed Deanna Thompson with Ikwe safe rides drivers group on Facebook in early April, the grassroots movement by Indigenous women was receiving between 40 to 100 calls a day. She it averaged 55 calls per day. So simple math says that one ride at $10, and this is all pretty conservative extrapolations as well, multiplied by 365 days works out to $200,750 out of the pockets of Winnipeg's taxicab industry. I would say that figure alone should move the industry to respond better to customer complaints. And like many, I will be awaiting the ruling. 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