by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 3, 2013:

Andrea Landry, a member of the Anishinaable people and Youth Executive of the National Association of Friendship Centre in Canada, recently attended a meeting for Indigenous youth at the UN Headquarters in New York. In this interview with UNTV Multimedia Producer, Mary Ferreira, Andrea explains how indigenous youth are fighting for the rights of women in Canada in the anti-democratic era of the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. She explains the perennial issue of the missing and murdered Aboriginal women, the Idle No More movement, racial discrimination, gender-based violence, racism, etc.

Video available on YouTube:

By South End Press

by Ernest W. Adams

Guys, we have a problem. We are letting way too many boys get into adulthood without actually becoming men. We’re seeing more and more adult males around who are not men. They’re as old as men, but they have the mentality of nine-year-old boys. They’re causing a lot of trouble, both in general and for the game industry specifically. We need to deal with this.

Why us? Because it’s our job to see to it that a boy becomes a man, and we are failing.

Today we pay our respects to 14 women murdered in Montreal on December 6, 1989, only because they were women. And feminists. That day, 25 year-old Marc Lépine entered École Polytechnique engineering school armed a .22 calibre rifle. He separated men from women, murdered the 14 women whom he called “une gange de féministes”.

A year later Parliament established the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

We have work to do.

I completely agree with Heather Mallick’s Canada Post workers’ future is ours too piece in yesterday’s Toronto Star. (Heather is one of my favorite newspaper columnists. And the Toronto Star is my favorite newspaper)

But I disagree with her use of the sexist term “postman”. What happened to the gender neutral term “letter carrier”? These days, thousands of women deliver mail around Canada.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is no friend of Canadian women. His new cabinet betrays both his chronic “women problem” and reluctance to put a progressive face on Ottawa.