The latest mass school shooting in Texas has renewed the debate about gun control. Here’s why gun advocates generally avoid discussing the harm that assault-style rifles can cause.
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In covering femicide, media have a leading role, not only in awareness and education generally, but in actively shaping the construction of attitudes and beliefs that can help prevention efforts.
Why do some gun owners insist on referring to the Montréal Massacre shooter by his birth name?
Thirty years after the Montreal Massacre that killed 14 women, new threats such as the incel movement pose dangers to the feminist movement.
While we remember the women murdered 30 years ago, we shouldn’t ignore those short, terse paragraphs in the news that describe the everyday, routine violence inflicted upon women.
On Dec. 6, 1989, 14 women were murdered at École Polytechnique. Women in a mechanical engineering class were targeted, and 30 years later the ratio of women to men in engineering hasn’t improved much.
Engineering is in a better place than in 1989. More women are studying the field, and academic administrators and managers want to hire female engineers. But more work is still needed.
Some Canadian gun advocates claim military-style assault weapons like the AR-15 have never been used to commit crimes in Canada. That’s inaccurate.
The day of remembrance and action, also called White Ribbon Day, marks the anniversary of the murders of 14 female engineering students killed in 1989 at l'École Polytechnique de Montréal.
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Professor of Communication Studies; Research Chair on Intersectionality, Violence and Resistance, Concordia University
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Professor, History, Saint Mary’s University
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PhD Student, Sociology, University of Guelph
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Professor, Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor, Sociology, King's University College, Western University
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Professeur, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Professor and Research Leadership Chair, Sociology, University of Guelph
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Professeure associée au département des sciences sociales, Université du Québec en Outaouais et à l'Institut de recherches et d'études féministes, UQAM, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)
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Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering; Chair of the Ontario Network of Women in Engineering, McMaster University
