Canada established a national day of remembrance to honor the victims of a 1989 tragedy
Canada marks December 6 as a solemn day of remembrance to honor the victims of the 1989 Montreal Massacre and to advocate for the end of gender-based violence.
On December 6, 1989, a gunman entered an engineering classroom at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique, specifically targeting women in an act of violence that shocked the world. In response to this tragedy, Canada established the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women to ensure the fourteen lives lost are never forgotten.
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