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16 Years Ago

16 years ago, when I was a 22-year-old student at Queen’s University studying electrical engineering (computer option), Marc Lepine (nee Gamil Gharbi) entered the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and killed 14 women.

Photo: December 6th memorial plaque at Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal.Photo: December 6th memorial plaque at Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal.

In these times, it’s tempting to argue about gender, politics and

philosophy — and hey, we probably should — but I’m going to leave

that for another day. I’d rather take a quiet moment to remember them

as women, as fellow engineering students and as human beings whose

lives were cut short.


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Joey deVilla

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  • Good grief. Has it been that long? It seems like just a couple of years ago.

    I can't tell whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.

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