A vigil marking the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women will take place Friday night by the river behind the Owen Sound Farmers’ Market. Article content

The annual gathering, at 5 p.m., marks the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, when 14 women were killed by a gunman at Ecole Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989. Article content

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The attack on the women, who were engineering students, a nursing student and a staff member, was executed by a man who said he hated feminists and who aspired to attend that school but struggled in night school courses he took in hopes of preparing him.

He murdered the women, then killed himself.

“A lot has been done since 1989 to make women’s and girls’ lives safer, and more emphasis has been pu

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