Twenty-five years ago today a man walked into L’Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and killed 14 women. He killed them because they were women. He killed them because he felt that feminists had ruined his life. I am not going to name him because it is easy to find his name and he is not the one we should be remembering. December 6th is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada and the date was chosen to mark this massacre. [Read more…]