National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women

The day is observed in Canada on December 6 as the anniversary of the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre, in which an armed male student murdered 14 women engineering students and injured 10 others in the name of "fighting feminism". The day aims to examine the power dynamics between men and women and to take action against gender-based violence.

For more information about this day, please visit https://cfc-swc.gc.ca/commemoration/vaw-vff/remembrance-commemoration-en.html.