December 6th is the Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

A vigil will be held by the YWCA, the Thompson Crisis Centre and the U of M Social Work program in the Multi-purpose room from 10 am to noon that day.

Margaret Ballard, a student with the Social Work program, tells us about what lead to this vigil.

“On December 6th, 1989, a man went into an engineering class at the École Polytechnique school. He then separated the men from the women, he told the men to leave and then he shot and killed the women in the class. These women were young and aspiring engineering students and they were killed simply because they were women.”

Ballard went on to add that across Canada and globally women and gender-diverse people still face discrimination and violence and the Day of Remembrance is to bring awareness to this fact.

More than 4 in 10 women have experienced some form of intimate partner violence in their life time.

All are welcome to participate in the vigil at the TRCC.