MONTREAL – There will be a simple commemoration ceremony Thursday morning to remember the 13 students and one staff member who died on Dec. 6, 1989, in the École Polytechnique shooting.
The ceremony will feature a bouquet of 14 white roses placed on a memorial plaque to the women who died.
All campus flags at the Polytechnique will be lowered to half staff and white ribbons, which have become the symbol of the campaign to wipe out violence against women, will be available from Polytechnique’s Department of Institutional Affairs and General Secretariat (Room B-210).
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The commemoration ceremony begins at 9 a.m. in the pavilion of engineering school at 2500 chemin de Polytechnique.
A more politicized event will take place at noon in front of the Palais de Justice, 1 Notre Dame St. W. in Old Montreal.
This public assembly is to denounce violence against women as well as remember the victims of the Polytechnique.
Similar events are planned across Canada on Dec. 6, which was declared A National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada by the federal government in 1991.
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