Dec 10, 2025 | Did You Know?, News and Views, Purple Ribbon Campaign
The selection of photos below are from the December 5, 2025 Memorial Service for Victims of Violence Against Women held at the Confederation Centre of the Arts (venue sponsor). We appreciate everyone who attended the service and participated in the 2025 Purple Ribbon...
Dec 10, 2025 | Purple Ribbon Campaign
Alyssa Coghlin, Therapist at the PEI Rape and Sexual Assault Centre, was the guest speaker at the December 5, 2025 Montreal Massacre Memorial Service. It’s an honour to be here with you all today for this memorial. There is power in the returning and remembrance and...
Dec 10, 2025 | News and Views, Now Available, Purple Ribbon Campaign
The staff and Council members of the Advisory Council on the Status of Women offer our appreciation to the many people who contributed to the 2025 Purple Ribbon Campaign Against Violence Against Women, including the Montreal Massacre Memorial Service, held on December...
Dec 4, 2025 | Did You Know?, News and Views, Now Available, Purple Ribbon Campaign
Today, we gather to mourn a tragedy that occurred on December 6, 1989. Near the end of the academic semester, a 25-year-old man entered École Polytechnique de Montréal, explicitly targeting and murdering 14 women—mostly engineering students—and injuring 14 other...
Dec 4, 2025 | 50th Anniversary 1975-2025, Did You Know?, Purple Ribbon Campaign
In Montreal on December 6th, 1989, 14 women were murdered in a mass shooting targeting women, at l’École Polytechnique. The 25-year-old perpetrator began his misogynistic violence in an Engineering classroom, and after telling the men to leave he singled out and shot...
Nov 27, 2025 | 50th Anniversary 1975-2025, Now Available, Purple Ribbon, Purple Ribbon Campaign
The origins and need for the Purple Ribbon Campaign Against Violence Against Women arise from the horrific act of misogynistic terrorism in Canada known as the Montreal Massacre. In Montreal on December 6th, 1989, 14 women were murdered in a mass shooting targeting...
