Wednesday (Dec. 4) marks 34 years since 14 female engineering students were gunned down at 脠cole Polytechnique in Montreal.
It is now recognized as the National Day of Remembrance and Action to End Violence Against Women.
The Central Okanagan Women鈥檚 Resource and Education Foundation will recognize the day with a vigil at 麻豆精选鈥檚 Rotary Centre for the Arts starting at 5:45 p.m. Attendees will walk to the courthouse and place roses on its steps in memory of women killed due to their gender.
According to a report from the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability, 184 women and girls were killed in Canada in 2022 because of their gender. Twenty-six of them were in B.C.
Numbers have been on the rise every year since 2018, according to the femicide report.
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