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Posted: Mar 13, 2021 7:00 AM PT | Last Updated: March 14 Sheila Poorman puts up posters of her daughter on Vancouver s Granville Street, where she went missing. (CBC/Ken Leedham) Sheila Poorman has spent six months taping posters up across Vancouver, hoping someone might know why her daughter vanished after leaving a downtown apartment. She wonders how no one could have noticed Chelsea Poorman, a 24-year-old Cree woman with round cheeks, friendly brown eyes and a noticeable limp, leave an apartment at Granville and Davie streets around midnight on Sept. 6 when those streets are lined with closed-circuit video cameras. All she knows is that Chelsea met up with a new man after she spent the evening with her sister. ....
The memorial march has always drawn attention to the disproportionate numbers of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and organizers say it was more important than ever to hold the march this year. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed deadly inequalities across Canadian society, with violence against women, fatal overdoses and racist incidents all increasing. And there has been new attention on the issue of systemic racism against Indigenous people in the B.C. health-care system. Scenes from the Women’s Memorial March on Feb. 14, 2021. Photos by Jennifer Gauthier. “Because of COVID, there are higher rates of racism, discrimination and violence,” said Sinktesapatawiya, a march organizer from Treaty 6 territory in Alberta. ....