User:Oceanflynn/sandbox/Robert Matas

Robert Matas is a Vancouver, British Columbia-based journalist who started working for the The Globe and Mail in 1980. He worked from The Globe's Vancouver bureau from 1988 to 2012. He has also contributed to the Literary Review of Canada,. While working at The Globe and Mail he covered issues such as Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, including extensive coverage of the Robert Pickton trial and Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. He also covered the Air India Flight 182 incident. He has been a member of Vancouver City Planning Commission since 2014. 2014

Matas was there for the December 2006 jury selection for the first-degree murder trial of Robert Pickton in New Westminster, British Columbia, and covered the trial from January through to the December 2007 verdict.

His Literary Review of Canada articles included his 2016 article, They’re Still Missing, a book review of Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away by Lori Shenher. The review and the book were scathing accounts of the lack of focus on the initial police investigations and the $10 million inquiry headed by Wally Oppal, who was Attorney General of British Columbia from 2005 to 2009, a former Supreme Court of British Columbia judge and cabinet minister from 2005 to 2009. According to Matas and Shenher, by 2016, the results of the inquiry continued to be "ignored". Mata wrote that the Vancouver Metro police force continued to be a "patchwork of municipal police forces and RCMP detachments."