Events to mark Polytechnique anniversary

Ceremonies and lighting will mark the 35th anniversary of the killings at the Polytechnique on Friday.

Rima Elkouri talks to the man who was interim director of the school at the time.

Videos from Radio-Canada and a long opinion piece in the Globe and Mail.

It’s noticeable how in recent years the massacre has come to be described as a feminicide or as an anti‑feminist act. It was only in 2019 that the plaque on the memorial park in Côte‑des‑Neiges was reworded to acknowledge this. For a long time after 1989 there was a strong tendency not to want to look straight at the killer’s motives – to kill feminists and keep women out of the public sphere – and acknowledge that they had been made as explicit as they could be.