Oct 27, 2021 | Did You Know?, News and Views, Now Available, Purple Ribbon
The Advisory Council on the Status of Women is hosting an evening pinning bee to prepare ribbons and bookmarks for their Purple Ribbon Campaign Against Violence Against Women. Reflecting on the many changes in the past months, the 2021-2022 theme is REIMAGINING...
Dec 19, 2019 | News and Views, Now Available, Purple Ribbon
Good afternoon everyone. I would like to begin by acknowledging the elders in the room and thanking the Advisory Council on the Status of Women for bringing us together to remember victims of gender-based violence. On December 6, 1989, I was a little girl living in...
Dec 19, 2019 | Purple Ribbon
Council and staff of the Advisory Council on the Status of Women extend sincere and heartfelt appreciation to everyone who attended the 30th Montreal Massacre Memorial Service on December 6, 2019. The commemoration was a beautiful and moving honouring of the...
Dec 11, 2019 | News and Views, Now Available, Purple Ribbon
The selection of photos below are from the December 6, 2019 Memorial Service for Victims of Violence Against Women held at the Confederation Centre of the Arts (venue sponsor). Thanks to everyone who attended the service and participated in the 2019 Purple Ribbon...
Dec 6, 2019 | News and Views, Now Available, Purple Ribbon
Support Survivors – Comments by Debbie Langston from peistatusofwomen on Vimeo. La version française suit December 6, 2019 Today, we gather to honour women. Women who have been murdered, women who are survivors of sexual assault, women whose lives have been...
Dec 5, 2019 | News and Views, Now Available, Purple Ribbon
To create a resource for our Purple Ribbon Teachers’ Guides, Advisory Council staff interviewed three women with different perspectives on the Montreal Massacre, thirty years since it happened. We interviewed an engineer of the same generation as the women who...
