Thank you Eva and Lala for the insight about Victoria, Vancouver, the homeless and shelters... I didn't know the problem of homelessness and drug use was that bad in Victoria. I'd heard numerous times about Vancouver's but never about Victoria.
I see how there could be some kinf of conflict between the people at the shelter and LE. I just hope that the investigators didn't cut their work short because they thought Emma was just another one of those users or ''trouble makers''. She looks like she's highly intelligent and a sensible person.
I'm also interested to know what type of people she was friends with (close or just acquintances). I wonder if she confided in anyone outside the shelter about her recent fears and problems. Could she have confided in someone, maybe through email? She likes to write, so maybe it would have been easier for her to write about her problems rather than tell them face to face to someone.
Also, this morning I read something online from the Journal de Montréal. Here's the link and a short summary because it's written in French.
This woman, who was a waitress at a restaurant in Rivière-du-Loup, got seriously stalked by the same man over a period of ten years. She'd gotten a restraining order, which he didn't respect, and then went back to court and they gave the man a $4 000.00 fine (to pay to her) for the offense. The whole process in court took many years and the woman finally had to move to another part of the province. She said that she'd developed serious anxiety problems because of her stalker. He would follow her around while she was driving her car, would drive through her street when she was home, and he refused to admit that he'd been stalking her.
I still don't know what to think about the stalker possibility versus plain paranoia but the more I think about it, the more I think that she could've been stalked. She was definitely fearing something or someone.
http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2015/03/22/harcelee-et-traquee-depuis-10-ans