In Wally Oppal’s “Forsaken: The Report of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry,” it is stated very clearly that the investigators intend “to enquire into and make finding of fact” respecting the police force investigations into the women missing from the Downtown Eastside from January 23, 1997 to Feb. 5, 2002, and in particular the decision made not to proceed with charges of assault, confinement, and attempted murder against Robert Pickton on January 27, 1998 (4). They are then prepared to recommend changes in the way  investigations should be done and coordinated between different police jurisdictions, Although they did seem to achieve their stated objectives, Ammilan quotes sources who were very disappointed with the results. Do you think this reaction is justified? Was it a failure as a quasi-judicial inquiry or not?  Chelsey mentions that “39% of the missing women were identified as having some form of indigenous heritage,” and alludes to an informative blog by Martin Lukacs mentioning that although the aboriginal population of Canada is about 4.3 % of the total population, the indigenous population in the Downtown Eastside is about 10 %.  Why would they congregate there? In his book, “The Inconvenient Indian,” Thomas King argues that “when we look at Native-non-Native relations, there is no great difference between the past and the present. While we have dispensed with guns and bugles, and while North America’s sense of its own superiority is better hidden, its disdain muted, twenty-first-century attitudes towards Native people are remarkably similar to those of previous centuries” (xv). Ashley’s description of how Kristin Gilchrist’s article compares the news coverage of Native and Non-Native women supports Kings’s view. The three Native women are mentioned in the stories 1/6 as often with fewer words and details and smaller pictures. They are less named. Do you think that “Missing Sarah,” Jiwani and Young’s report and Wally Oppal’s “Forsaken” will have some impact on Thomas King’s assessment of the contemporary attitude towards Natives? (How would the reader from GoodReads that Emily Anctil refers to assess the overall impact on the reading public of the book “Missing Sarah?) Ashley suggest other ways of influencing people for the betterment of society. And A.J. refers to “Missing Sarah” as a Memoir of Failure- a failure of systems and a failure of people. Alyssa G has an assessment of the family’s failure in Sarah’s tragedy and an excellent pictorial representation of her assessment. What do YOU think?