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Title: MSP remembers victims of violence

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Each year, on December 6th, representatives from My Sister's Place, the local shelter for women and children, remembers the tragedy that began the National Day of Action on Violence Against Women. On that devastating day back in 1989, 14 women attending Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal were maliciously murdered at the hands of a sole gunman. The “Montreal Massacre” has since then represented a memory of all women and children who are killed each year from violence. These women continue to serve as a remembrance of the violence women all over the world face and why it is important for them to be heard. November is dedicated as the month of awareness for Women Abuse Prevention. A purple ribbon is worn in commemoration and tribute to all those women who have, or continue to experience abuse.

“People In Transition (Alliston) Inc., ‘My Sister's Place' is hosting a vigil for the December 6th massacre. Please join us in remembering those 14 women who tragically lost their lives, as well as those who have died in the last year because of violence; at the St John's United Church in Alliston at 7 p.m. on December 6th,” said Andrea Poick, Social Service Work Student.

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