President Brown: Remembering École Polytechnique de Montréal

Today, the YukonU community remembers the lives of the 14 young women who were killed in the 1989 gender-based attack at École Polytechnique de Montréal.

It has been 35 years since this act of violent misogyny shook our country. But this kind of hatred still exists today. In Canada and around the world, women, girls and 2SLGBTQI+ individuals face unacceptable violence and discrimination.

National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women provides an opportunity to commemorate and honour the 14 women who were killed.

It also presents an opportunity to remember people who continue to die as a result of gender-based violence, and those who live with violence today.

On Dec. 6, we remember:
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz