Twenty years have passed since 14 women were killed by a gunman in the engineering department at Montreal’s école Polytechnique.
The Dec. 6, 1989, tragedy spurred people across the world to call for action to counter violence against women, and led to an annual day to remember and honour the victims.
Local activities for the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women will be centred at the University of Victoria. Today, a gathering will be held from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the fountain outside the McPherson Library and the Mearns Centre for Learning.
The event will include presentations by Anissa St. Pierre of UVic’s Women in Engineering and Computer Science, graduate student Rebecca Taylor, Billy Bingaman from the Victoria Women’s Sexual Assault Centre and Tracie Fawkes from PEERS (Prostitutes Empowerment Education and Resource Society).

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