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...
Nov 28, 2019 | News and Views, Now Available, Purple Ribbon
“We are so much individualistic that we don’t want to interfere in other people’s lives… (But) if you feel there is something bad happening, confide in somebody and say, ‘Look, I don’t think this behaviour is right.’” On December 6, 1989, Joy Ikede was working...
Nov 28, 2019 | News and Views, Now Available, Purple Ribbon
“Knowing that it makes you a target just by being a woman was and is very scary for me… Once a year we gather and remember the women who were murdered just for being women.” On December 6, 1989, Brittany Pellissier was not yet born. She grew up in the years...
