310. Targeted: The École Polytechnique Massacre

On December 6th, 1989, a gunman walked into an engineering classroom in Montreal's École Polytechnique and opened fire. Within twenty minutes, fourteen women were dead. Killed only because they were women.
Join Jen and Cam as we discuss what happened in the twenty minutes of Canada's deadliest mass shooting.

***Jen tried her best to pronounce the victim's names correctly. 


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Thank you to our team:
Written and researched by Lauretta Allen
Listener Discretion by Edward October from Octoberpod AM
Executive Producer Nico Vitesse of The Inky Pawprint

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_L%C3%A9pine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/04/mass-shooting-1989-montreal-14-women-killed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18d2eocYP9Y&ab_channel=GeorgiaMarie
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/polytechnique-massacre-30-years-later-loreen-pindera-pov-1.5371032
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Because_They_Were_Women/aHwpEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT18&printsec=frontcover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnyT4rXwbAc&ab_channel=100huntley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s4MAG-jOfc&ab_channel=100huntley
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Because_They_Were_Women/aHwpEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT18&printsec=frontcover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spsAJ76rP3I&rco=1&ab_channel=CBCNews
https://globalnews.ca/news/6187845/montreal-massacre-victims/
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