December 6: Remembering the women

A composite of missing and murdered indigenous women

Every year on this day I mark the remembrance of the 14 women that were killed at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989.  It was one of the most transformational experiences of my life, to be alive and aware on that day.

Since then, the long gun registry that was put in place as a result of that murder has been disbanded and we aren’t making much progress on dealing with violence against women in this country

And so from now on my December 6 posts will include both the 14 roses and images that capture something of the scale of loss of more than 1200 missing and murdered indigenous women, some of them friends, many of them close relations of friends.