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 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...
