By Evelyn Kwong, The Toronto Star, December 6, 2020
Thirty-one years ago, 14 women were murdered at Montreal’s École Polytechnique, simply because they were women.
Today, as they remember the victims of the anti-feminist attack on Dec. 6, 1989 — Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault and Annie Turcotte — many women are all too aware of the violence they and others face daily across Canada.
Even more poignant on this National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women is that it falls in the midst of a pandemic that has left many women locked down at home, unable to escape their abusers.
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