On Dec. 6, 1989, 23-year-old Nathalie Provost was shot four times by Marc Lepine after he entered her classroom at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique with guns drawn and separated the men from the women.
Four professors across different departments hosted a screening of the movie “Polytechnique” Nov. 21 in the Chu Room at Shain Library, followed by a panel discussion that touched on gun control, ...
Fourteen beams of light representing the shooting victims were projected into the sky Monday evening from Mount Royal, where Trudeau, Quebec Premier François Legault and Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante ...
MONTREAL – Jean-Francois Larivee still remembers Maryse Laganiere’s piercing blue eyes the day he met her at the Universite de Montreal in the mid-1980s. Larivee and Laganiere went on to marry and ...
Originally published on Dec. 6, 2018. When a gunman killed 14 women at École Polytechnique in Montreal, Que. in 1989, Gina Parvaneh Cody learned the news in horror at nearby Concordia University.
Members of the University of Toronto community gathered virtually on Monday to remember the 14 women killed in the École Polytechnique massacre 32 years ago – and to reflect on how to combat gender ...
Thirty years after 14 women were killed in an anti-feminist massacre at École Polytechnique in Montreal, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared more work needs to be done to combat gender-based ...
On a chilly winter evening in 1989, Marc Lépine entered the École Polytechnique with a semi-automatic rifle. He made his way to a second-floor classroom, ordered the male students out of the room and ...
As a former professor of French as a Second Language and Women’s Studies at John Abbott College, it was my sacred duty and responsibility to make sure that Dec. 6 would be marked by a special ceremony ...