École Polytechnique Massacre

• Polytechnique expands scholarship program to 14 women in memory of 1989 tragedy

  The scholarships, set up to pay tribute not only to the victims but also to their families, were awarded during a ceremony at the school on Monday.

  Canada

  Dec 1, 2025
  
• Vigils, events mark 35 years since Polytechnique anti-feminist mass killing

  Dignitaries gathered in front of Polytechnique Montréal's main campus to pay tribute to the 14 women killed at the engineering school in an anti-feminist attack 35 years ago.

  Canada

  Dec 6, 2024
  
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• UBC graduate wins prestigious Order of the White Rose prize

  A UBC engineering graduate has won this year's prestigious Order of the White Rose engineering prize that honours the 14 women killed during the Ecole Polytechnique massacre.

  Canada

  Dec 4, 2023
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• Okanagan College vigil held for 33-year anniversary of Polytechnique massacre

  'We want to honour the women that were killed but we also want to spur action,' said Eric Reist of the Vernon Students' Association at a vigil for the Polytechnique massacre.

  Canada

  Dec 7, 2022
• Trudeau says firearms bill doesn’t target hunters as Carey Price, critics attack reforms

  A Liberal amendment to Bill C-21 would set out a regulatory ban on assault-style weapons by putting an evergreen definition for such firearms into law.

  Canada

  Dec 6, 2022
• Federal gun control action in wake of N.S. shooting ‘beneficial’: Polytechnique survivor

  A survivor from the Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique shooting in1989 said the response to mass shootings should be "political and immediate."

  Canada

  Jun 29, 2022
• Okanagan College to host candlelight vigil for violence against women awareness

  The Vernon and Salmon Arm Okanagan College campuses will host vigils 'as a symbolic commitment to end violence against women.' 

  Canada

  Dec 5, 2021
• Liberals will ensure gun control remains a priority: Survivors of Quebec mass school shootings

  'The Liberal Party is the only party that can strengthen our gun laws today,' said PolySeSouvient coordinator Heidi Rathjen.

  Politics

  Sep 9, 2021
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• Revamp ‘hollow’ federal gun bill, victims’ families from Montreal urge Liberals

  "We will not mince our words. Bill C-21 is an insult to all victims of gun violence," the letter says.

  Canada

  May 4, 2021
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• Cree student from Alberta awarded Order of the White Rose in memory of Polytechnique victims

  Brielle Chanae Thorsen, 22, says the lives of the 14 women cut short by the École Polytechnique massacre must never be forgotten, but real work remains in achieving full equality.

  Canada

  Dec 3, 2020