Emily Powers

Mar 4, 2024 | thephilanthropist.ca | Sue Bookchin |Emily Powers |Sharon Riley |Deina Warren

(Cet article est disponible en français.)​In recent decades, the murder of 14 female engineering (and one nursing) students at Montreal’s École Polytechnique in 1989 was the defining mass shooting in Canada many of us could remember. Every year since then, this event is marked by 16 days of activism culminating on December 6, the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. The shooter was a fellow student who blamed his female peers for his struggles.