Dec 16, 2020 | Purple Ribbon Campaign
PEI-Nova Scotia singer-songwriter Jenn Grant performed her song “Mauve” in honour of the April 2020 Portapique, NS, mass shootings, for sharing in the Charlottetown, PEI, 2020 Montreal Massacre Memorial Service video commemoration. The video of the full...
Dec 16, 2020 | Purple Ribbon Campaign
When you looked at me did you see me? Did you see my arms and think of how wildly they gesticulate when I’m telling a story? Or did you see my arms and picture how you would use them to pin me down? Did you see my lips and visualize how they must look when...
Dec 16, 2020 | News and Views, Purple Ribbon Campaign
Roxanne Carter-Thompson and Debbie Langston prepare for Roxanne to tell her story. Roxanne Carter-Thompson is the Executive Director of the Adventure Group in Prince Edward Island, and she told her story of being a survivor of violence for the first time in public to...
Dec 5, 2020 | News and Views, Now Available, Purple Ribbon Campaign
Where Violence Persists, What Women Do Last year we gathered to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, where fourteen women, students at l’École Polytechnique, were murdered because they were women. With our service of remembrance we paid...
Nov 25, 2020 | Purple Ribbon Campaign
Memorial Services for Victims of Violence Direct Link to the Montreal Massacre Memorial Video on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/487804493 Program of Service (PDF): December 6 2020 video commemoration program For decades we have gathered as a community to honour the...