Montreal Massacre

Toronto attack déjà-vu: lessons from the misogynist Montreal massacre

Anne Kingston: Mass murder motivated by ideological hatred of women meets the legal definition of terrorism. Why won’t we call it that?

Remember the women of the Montreal Massacre by more than just their names

Opinion: Misogyny will not be conquered by downplaying or ignoring how gender and violence intersect

A continuum of violence: Remembering the massacre at École Polytechnique

Opinion: If gendered violence is to be eradicated, we need to start from ground up and traverse the pathways of its escalation, intervening at every step

25 years after the Montreal massacre, gun control is lax as ever

There’s been progress in the years since the shooting at École Polytechnique. But whatever happened to the Firearms Act?

What students are talking about today (December 6th edition)

Robert Pattinson, a pro-life victory & a condom shortage

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Sports columnist regrets ‘Montreal Massacre’ slip

ESPN writer Chris Jones says his use of the term ‘Montreal Massacre’ was inadvertent

Marking the Montreal Massacre

A coast-to-coast round-up of remembrance

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Gun 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 Conservatives’ bill to kill the long-gun registry.

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Excusing the men who ran away

The new film ‘Polytechnique’ sidesteps the old norm of ‘women and children first’

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The first big film about . . . Dec. 6, 1989

‘Polytechnique,’ shot in both French and English, opens across the country on Feb. 6

From the archives: Remembering the Montreal massacre

Our 1989 cover story chronicled the events that led to the mass murder of 14 women at Montreal’s École Polytechnique