What students are talking about today (December 6th edition)
Robert Pattinson, a pro-life victory & a condom shortage
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The first big film about . . . Dec. 6, 1989
It remains Quebec’s definitive tragedy, a day marked both by unspeakable carnage and the all-consuming hate of the man who begat it. Quebec society turned inward on itself in an attempt to explain it...
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Excusing the men who ran away
On the annual commemoration of the “Montreal Massacre,” the Quebec broadcaster Marie-France Bazzo remarked how strange it was that, after all these years, nobody had made a work of art about what...
View ArticleGun control and the Toronto Star
“Tories delist sniper rifles, self-loading weapons,” says the front-page Toronto Star headline, followed by text in the body of the story claiming that such weapons will be “declassified” under the...
View ArticleSports columnist regrets ‘Montreal Massacre’ slip
Chris Jones, the back page columnist for ESPN Magazine, has apologized for what he says was the inadvertent use of the term “Montreal Massacre” to refer to a baseball boondoggle, according to the Globe...
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25 years after the Montreal massacre, gun control is lax as ever
Shaney Komulainen/CP Canada’s Firearms Act was already drenched in symbolism when it came into law in late 1995. Compelling Canada’s gun owners to register their long guns was an affirmation of...
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Nathalie Provost: ‘Polytechnique faded … it never disappears’
Nathalie Provost on Parliament Hill in 2011. (Adrian Wyld, The Canadian Press) MONTREAL – Nathalie Provost will never forget confronting gunman Marc Lepine just before he shot her four times during an...
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From the archives: Remembering the Montreal massacre
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A continuum of violence: Remembering the massacre at École Polytechnique
A woman lights candles in honour of women killed by gun violence during an event in Toronto marking the anniversary of the École Polytechnique massacre in Montreal that left 14 women dead. (CP...
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Remember the women of the Montreal Massacre by more than just their names
TOP, FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: MARYSE LAGANIÈRE, MARYSE LECLAIR, MICHÈLE RICHARD, NATHALIE CROTEAU; MIDDLE: SONIA PELLETIER, ANNE-MARIE LEMAY, ANNE-MARIE EDWARD, ANNIE ST-ARNEAULT, MAUD HAVIERNICK; BOTTOM:...
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