Polytechnique expands women’s award
The Polytechnique used to grant the White Rose award to a single female engineering student annually around this time of year, but they’ve widened the award to fourteen women students who each get a $50,000 scholarship in memory of the fourteen victims of the 1989 massacre to help them extend their education.
(CBC radio news reader said that a grant recipient was “not alive” when the massacre occurred. I think he could have said “not yet born”…)



azrhey 11:42 on 2025-12-02 Permalink
oh! So I’m not going crazy! A coworker was saying the other day he “wasn’t alive for 9/11” and it fell odd to be because my mind went to “Zombie or vampire?” and my frenchie mind wanted it to be “I wasn’t born yet” but I didn’t say anything because he is an proper anglo from the Townships. But it stilt fell weird and now I feel vindicated!