CBC has a really great section on the Montreal Massacre which happened on December 6th, 1989. I am sure many of us know that a man by the name of Lepine walked into that school and killed 14 women because he blamed them for his not getting into the engineering program, and called them all feminists.
I chose this because many times when the story is covered what is failed to be addressed is that it was not just a trajedy but an act of violence against women (patriarch and its influence in the media).
It is really important to note this becasue many times the media tends to neglect many things as has been seen with the dissappearance of Aboriginal prostitutes by the pig farmer. The media, as a patriarchal system, neglects to focus on how women were impacted by this incident rather focusing on everyone at the School when the incident happened to women. Similarly the Aboriginal women's dissappearances were neglected because of racism (they are Aboriginal), colonization (we take their land and ignore when they are dissappearing), and finally because they are women.
http://archives.cbc.ca/society/crime_justice/topics/398/
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