Unpublished Newswire

This story was originally published on Nov. 28, 2024, for the 35th anniversary of the massacre at École Polytechnique. Statistics suggest as few as 20 per cent of Canada’s current residents were adults living in Canada on Dec. 6, 1989 — 35 years ago — when the country suffered a landmark injury. That was the day 14 people were killed and another 14 injured by a gunman at École Polytechnique, a post-secondary engineering school in Montreal, in the so-called Montreal Massacre. It became clear, sooner for some than others, that all of the dead and 10 of the injured were young women...