On Dec. 6, 1989, 23-year-old Nathalie Provost was shot four times by Marc Lepine after he entered her classroom at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique with guns drawn and separated the men from the women.

The term “mass shooting” has become all too ubiquitous. It’s unfortunate that there is even a term to describe when a person enters a public place, opens fire, and kills multiple innocent people while ...

Fourteen beams of light representing the shooting victims were projected into the sky Monday evening from Mount Royal, where Trudeau, Quebec Premier François Legault and Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante ...

Dec. 6, 2019 marks 30 years since the attack at École Polytechnique. On that day, in 1989, a man determined to kill feminists took the lives of 14 women. He killed: Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, ...

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People place white roses at a memorial plaque for the victims of the 1989 Ecole Polytechnique massacre in Montreal, Saturday, December 6, 2025. Today marks the 36th anniversary of the shooting by an ...

Yasmin Jiwani has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) for her previous investigations of femicides in Canada and violence against girls and young women.

On a chilly winter evening in 1989, Marc Lépine entered the École Polytechnique with a semi-automatic rifle. He made his way to a second-floor classroom, ordered the male students out of the room and ...

Members of the University of Toronto community gathered virtually on Monday to remember the 14 women killed in the École Polytechnique massacre 32 years ago – and to reflect on how to combat gender ...

Thirty years ago, a 25-year-old man wearing blue jeans and Kodiak boots stormed into Montreal’s École Polytechnique carrying a heavy black bag and a grudge. He pulled a legally purchased Ruger Mini-14 ...

Michael Halpin is an assistant professor in the department of sociology and social anthropology at Dalhousie University. Dec. 6 is the anniversary of Marc Lépine’s misogynistic assault on École ...