People joined the Women’s Resource Centre at the Flin Flon Friendship Centre last evening for the annual Candle Light Vigil.  Counselor Hope Liebaert told them this is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women……

“We take this day to remember the women we have lost due to acts of violence.  On this day in 1989 a gunman entered a mechanical engineering classroom at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal.  After separating the women from the men he shot at all of the women in the room while yelling you are all feminists.  He continued shooting in the school specifically targeting women.  In just under 20 minutes he took the lives of 14 talented, ambitious and courageous young women as well as injuring 13 others. This event shook the lives of the victim’s friends and families as well as the province of Quebec and the rest of Canada.”

They then named and recognized each of the 14 women who lost their lives in the Montreal Massacre pausing for a moment of silence in their memory.