By Ezzah Bashir

UNBC to Host the 22nd Annual Day of Remembrance

Nov 27, 2017 | 12:43 PM

December 6 marks the Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women after 14 female engineering students were killed at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal in 1989.

The University of Northern British Columbia will be hosting it’s 22nd annual event Wednesday to remember the women who lost their lives. The event will include poets, local singers and the president of the university, Daniel Weeks speaking all in honour of the victims. 

Director of the Northern Women’s Centre, Sarah Boyd said that she remembers the day it happened vividly. “I come home and my roommate had the TV on with the news and there were ambulances with sirens going and it was just an incredible moment and a very sad moment in Canadian history,” she said.

Although UNBC has been honouring the victims for over two decades more needs to be done to help women in situations of violence.

“People think that violence sort of happens out there doesn’t happen in their lives or people they know, but the truth is that many people don’t talk about the violence they’re experiencing. So there is a huge need in terms of an attitudinal change,” said Boyd.

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The event will take place at the Canfor Winter Garden on Wednesday.