National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women

Today is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, also known as White Ribbon Day. Each year we take time to remember the 14 women who were murdered on December 6, 1989, simply for being women. Thirty-one years ago today, a man walked into a mechanical engineering classroom at Montréal’s École Polytechnique and opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle, shouting about feminism. He also wounded 10 others.