Missing Women’s Inquiry: Wally Oppal faces critics

My latest article in rabble.ca is about a community forum held last week in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.  Wally Oppal, commissioner of the Missing Women’s Inquiry, heard from local politicians such as Vancouver East MP Libby Davies.  Aboriginal activists, women’s groups, and sex-trade workers also gave testimony.  The forum was not an official part of the inquiry, which is set to begin later this year. It will examine the Vancouver Police Department and the RCMP’s investigations into the missing and murdered women.

A VPD poster at a bus stop near Main and Hastings in the Downtown Eastside.
From 1970 to 2002, sixty-nine women disappeared from this low-income
neighbourhood.