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This webpage is setup so that information regarding the business practices of the Manitoba Equine Expo with Jasmine Heymann as President can get out to everyone. On Facebook information is being suppressed either through the Manitoba Equine Expo Group's filtering of messages on their Facebook Group page, or if things are said on other forums the posts are reported to Facebook until Facebook takes a post down and locks down the account of the person making the posts.

Decide for yourself what the truth is, these are simply the facts as I know them.

Background

My name is Chad McFarland and this page and it's contents are owned by me. This is not hate speech, propaganda, or harassment. I am exercising my right to freedom of speech under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Section 2(b). This website contains facts that I believe to be true and correct to the best of my knowledge and otherwise is my own personal opinion which I am expressing on an open forum as is my right under the Charter.

The story:

In February of 2016 I attended the second annual Manitoba Equine Expo. Prior to this time I had never heard of the Manitoba Equine Expo or Jasmine Heymann. I noticed that this newly formed group seemed to have no real web presence. No proper website and no open forum like a Facebook page. All the Manitoba Equine Expo had was a closed Facebook group. I would later come to find out that this is likely so that information can be tightly controlled and anything detrimental to Ms. Heymann or the Manitoba Equine Expo can be suppressed easily.

At the Expo I met Ms. Heymann and offered to build a website. Not for any kind of profit, but just because I wanted to give back to the equestrian community and this seemed a good way to do it. The Expo seemed legit, but I was personally put off by the fact that it appeared that more than half the vendors were not horse related really and beyond that there were no HORSES at an Equine Expo. Which I thought was odd, but hey, February in Winnipeg is not exactly the easiest to deal with and Winnipeg lacks indoor riding facilities.

Ms. Heymann told me not to worry, she has a web developer and everything will be up and running shortly after the Expo.

No problem, I thought to myself, well at least I offered.

The following week after the 2016 Expo I received a message from a friend asking if I was still interested in making a webpage. Turns out that Ms. Heymann's web developer suddenly died (heart attack apparently) and the family was not willing to release any of his work that was finished for the Manitoba Equine Expo.

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This was the first of what I believe now to be a multitude of lies to gain sympathy and to make herself out to be this poor woman fighting the good fight against the world.

So that's where it all started. Trying to volunteer to make a website and give back to the equestrian community. Where it's gone is finding out that I was dealing with one of the worst business persons of my life.

It started with wanting to get a receipt for my good friend who introduced me to Ms. Heymann at the expo. He had paid cash after getting the run around that Ms. Heymann didn't received not one, but two corporate cheques sent in the mail. He was told to drop it off direct to her mailbox. So due to the fact that he lives in the country, he happened to be near Winnipeg and pulled out cash to give to Ms. Heymann. He asked for a receipt but was told that he would get it at the Expo.

Expo came and went... no receipt.

Weeks passed... no receipt despite multiple text messages and emails.

I finally got involved and asked what was going on? Ms. Heymann's response was that she sent out receipts in the mail, twice! She also scanned and tried to send him a copy but for some unknown reason it never got through.

I asked to be sent a copy so I can take it to Mike's. I'm in the city so it's easy to drop off a hard copy to me.

More weeks pass.

Tax season is getting pretty old by this point and my buddy needs a receipt for his business.

Finally, on April 1st, 2016 I told Ms. Heymann in no uncertain terms that she needs to provide a receipt and she can either scan and email it to me, take a picture of it with her cell phone and send it to me, or I will come down right now to her house and pick it up but it needs to happen. It was also the first time I asked her if something was wrong or shady. Here is what I received: (text message picture)

Here is exactly what I said on April 1st, 2016.

Please note I meant NPO or Non-Profit Organization. I deal with NGO's or Non-Governmental Organizations at work so it was a brain slip on my part.

I never did get the original receipt...

This was the start of the end of my involvement with the Manitoba Equine Expo. I began to realize that there were a lot of, what I now believe to be lies being thrown about.

Ms. Heymann had claimed to me that the Assiniboia Downs had tried to charge her extra fees for cleaning, teardown, didn't provide the required number of tables and other things not included in the contract. She claimed to me she was being threatened by the Downs and she got her lawyer involved. She stated she was going to sue the Assinboia Downs for breach of contract and all the losses she incurred. That was apparently the reason why her events needed to be moved because the Downs cancelled everything for future events.

The Children's Hospital Foundation

One of the big things that I liked was knowing I was helping out a charity! I believe strongly in philanthropy and giving back to the community.

It's come to my attention though that as of April 28, 2016 the Children's Hospital Foundation has not received any money from the Manitoba Equine Expo event held February 13, 2016.

http://goodbear.mb.ca/event/manitoba-equine-expo-the-first-annual-equine-expo/

Ms. Heymann has stated on more than one occassion and in front of groups of people that she has given the Children's Hospital a certified cheque for $50,000. It's also become my understanding that she told certain people that she gave cash to a Children's Hospital representative immediately after the event. No one, to my knowledge, has seen any proof of such a cheque. It's been asked for but never produced. Inquiries to the Children's Hospital have lead to that Foundation stating over the phone that they have not received any money from the Manitoba Equine Expo and Jasmine Heymann has not returned their calls. $50,000! How is that possible?

Let's do the math:

Ms. Heymann claimed that 7,000 people attended the Manitoba Equine Expo.

The entrance fee was $10.00

7,000 x $10.00 = $70,000

+ Vendor fees ranging from $60.00 for a table to $125.00 for a 10'x10' booth. Ms. Heymann claims 150 vendors attended.

~$90.00 x 150 = $13,500 +/-

Silent auction = Unknown

Total for the event most likely more than $83,500. (if Ms. Heymann isn't lying about how many people attended)

Witnesses at the event state that they paid cash for everything and never received a receipt (or tickets for that matter) so I'm not sure it's possible to say how much money was in Jasmine Heymann's possession at the end of the Expo. So let's see the books! A non-profit organization should have accurate highly detailed accounting especially at those dollar figures right?

As a Director on the Manitoba Equine Expo Group I repeatedly asked to see the books. I have never seen the books for accounting for the money. Why? I don't know. The latest is that I wasn't trusted to see them... Why wasn't I trusted to see what should be publicly available records? No idea, of course it's probably because I'm blowing the whistle here now and well, the books don't exist as far as I'm aware. A lot of cash deals and no receipts happening as far as I can see.

What happened to the money?

That is a very good question. One that I'd personally like answered. Why is nothing accounted for? Why are the accounting books a secret?

Who owns business number 808394160M0001 and what is the name registered to? Is it a non-profit organization or is it a for profit business?

Ms. Heymann has always stated it's a non-profit. She has collected money for a charity under the pretense everything is for non-profit. By the simple math on one event it seems that nearly $100,000 might have been collected. On top of that she is collecting vendor fees for multiple other events in May, June, September and December of this year. $60/table or more x 150 or so vendors x 4 events = $36,000

Where did the money go?