{"id":79878,"date":"2017-07-04T05:53:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T05:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/?p=79878"},"modified":"2017-07-04T05:53:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T05:53:38","slug":"missing-and-murdered-inquirys-executive-director-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/missing-and-murdered-inquirys-executive-director-resigns.html","title":{"rendered":"Missing and murdered inquiry&#8217;s executive director resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The executive director of the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls has resigned.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the inquiry quotes Michele Moreau as saying, &#8220;For personal reasons, I have decided to go back to my home and family in Montreal.&#8221; Her resignation is effective July 21.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Three other prominent inquiry staff members also resigned in June: Chantale Courcy,\u00a0director of operations;\u00a0Sue Montgomery, director of communications;\u00a0and Tanya Kappo,\u00a0manager of community relations.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Missing\u00a0\u00a0Murdered: The Unsolved Cases of Indigenous Women and Girls<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">MMIWG inquiry loses 4th staff member amid ongoing calls for reform<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">National inquiry into MMIWG loses high-profile staff member<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Commission on missing, murdered Indigenous women has become a fortress of bureaucratic incompetence: Opinion<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The inquiry held its first public hearings in Whitehorse from\u00a0May 30 to June 2,\u00a0 and announced plans to delay testimony from other family members until an undetermined date in the fall.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/indigenous\/mmiwg-resignation-michele-moreau-1.4187118?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The executive director of the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls has resigned. A statement from the inquiry quotes Michele Moreau as saying, &#8220;For personal reasons, I have decided to go back to my home and family in Montreal.&#8221; Her resignation is effective July 21. Three other prominent inquiry staff members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-79878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}