Episode 124 - École Polytechnique: The Montreal Massacre - a podcast by True Crime with Suruthi & Hannah

The 6th of December 2019 marks the 30 year anniversary of the Montreal massacre, a dark day in Canadian history. It was the day that gunman Marc Lépine walked into an engineering school and shot dead 14 female students. 
As he shot the women, he exclaimed that he hated feminists, and that feminists had ruined his life. This sentiment was backed up in his manifesto. A manifesto that shares a great number of themes with that of Isla Vista killer Elliot Roger, or the motivations the 2018 Toronto van killer, Alek Minnassian.
But with the continued glorification and martyrdom of the likes of Lépine, Rodger and Minassian - how far have we really come?


References:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spsAJ76rP3I&t=816s
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/03/montreal-massacre-canadas-feminists-remember
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.4435607/this-is-how-one-survivor-described-the-montreal-massacre-the-day-after-the-shooting-1.4435613
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/polytechnique-tragedy
https://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/montreal-massacre
https://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/learn/resources/women-violence-and-montréal-massacre-lee-lakeman
https://www.flare.com/news/remember-the-women-of-the-montreal-massacre-by-more-than-just-their-names/
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/polytechnique-massacre-lives-forever-changed
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mass-shooting-reshaped-canadian-debate-about-guns-and-political-identity-180962013/
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/montreal-massacre-ecole-polytechnique-trudeau_ca_5cd57b57e4b07bc729787a6d
https://globalnews.ca/news/6187845/montreal-massacre-victims/
https://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/5184229-montreal-massacre-changed-us-forever/
http://theconversation.com/the-1989-polytechnique-massacre-was-an-act-of-terrorism-against-all-women-108260
https://www.ucalgary.ca/news/1989-montreal-massacre-redefined-engineering-profs-career-direction
https://www.insideottawavalley.com/news-story/7978294-montreal-massacre-29-years-later-say-their-names-remember-take-action-/
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/understanding-the-1989-montreal-massacre-as-an-example-of-lone-wolf-terrorism
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/lepines-mother-breaks-her-silence
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/were-firearms-too-easy-to-acquire-before-the-montreal-massacre
‘Marc Lepine: The True Story of the Montreal Massacre: School Shootings’ by RJ Parker 
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/domestic-violence-elimination-of-violence-women-law-womens-refuges-closures-action-a8075411.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/opinion/sunday/trump-feminism-andrea-dworkin.html
Stats on white terrorism vs islamic terrorism
https://time.com/5647304/white-nationalist-terrorism-united-states/
https://icct.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Koehler-Violence-and-Terrorism-from-the-Far-Right-February-2019.pdf  

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