polytechnique shooting

• Polytechnique shooting survivor Nathalie Provost receives honorary doctorate

  The gun control advocate and survivor of the 1989 school shooting is being recognized with an honorary doctorate at a ceremony in downtown Montreal.

  Canada

  Jun 16
  
• ‘A step in the right direction’: Montreal gun-control advocates applaud federal firearm legislation

  Gun-control advocates in Montreal say the federal government bill announced Monday that would impose new handgun restrictions in Canada is a step in the right direction.

  Canada

  May 31
  
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• Trudeau open to improving gun bill as Polytechnique survivors call for change

  Survivors of the mass shooting said in a letter to the prime minister this week he would no longer be welcome at annual commemorations unless his government strengthens the bill.

  Canada

  Mar 19, 2021
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• Polytechnique survivor recalls moments of grief, confusion in wake of mass shooting in Nova Scotia

  The shooting is now the deadliest in Canadian history, surpassing the death toll of the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre in Montreal.

  Canada

  Apr 20, 2020
• Ensemble Montreal calls for motion to control firearms, ban private handgun possession

  According to Statistics Canada, the number of handguns in the country has doubled in the last seven years.

  Politics

  Nov 6, 2019
• ‘We cannot forget’: 14 women killed in École Polytechnique massacre honoured

  The annual commemoration comes 29 years after a gunman stormed the university building on a snowy night and fatally wounded the group of engineering students — simply because they were women.

  Canada

  Dec 6, 2018
• Quebec gun-control activists push for federal firearms bill

  Bill C-71, which was adopted in the House of Commons on Sept. 24, has not yet reached a second reading in the Senate.

  Canada

  Dec 3, 2018
• Ceremonies planned for 28th anniversary of École Polytechnique shooting

  Fourteen light beams were installed at the lookout on Mount Royal representing the 14 women killed. Light shone out into the the night sky between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. Wednesday evening.

  Canada

  Dec 6, 2017
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• Focus Montreal: Dec. 1

  This week on Focus Montreal, meet the author of a report on racial profiling in Montreal, hear from Polytechnique survivor and gun-control activist Nathalie Provost on her latest battle, and learn what is being done to fight bullying in some Quebec schools and to help children in crisis.

  Canada

  Dec 3, 2017
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• Controversial pro-gun rally held at sugar shack near Quebec City

  A pro-gun lobby held a rally at a sugar shack west of Quebec City on Saturday after it was forced to backtrack on a plan to have the event at a memorial site for the 14 women who were killed at Ecole polytechnique in 1989.

  Canada

  Dec 2, 2017