Expert insights: Montréal Massacre anniversary – The media’s role in fighting femicide

On the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, researchers write that media can make a difference by raising awareness about femicide. Women's monument at Victoria Park in London, Ont. Photo by Wayne Ray via Wikimedia Commons - By Jordan Fairbairn, Ciara Boyd, Myrna Dawson and Yasmin Jiwani, Special to Western News. December 6, 2021 On Dec. 6, 1989, an act of violent misogyny killed 14 young women at École Polytechnique at Université of Montréal. This mass femicide, though carried out by a lone male, grew out of a societal environment of gender inequity, misogyny, colonialism, racism and other intersecting systems of oppression. Femicide, which refers to the sex/gender-related killings of women and girls, does not occur out of the blue.