Survivor Nathalie Provost [shown in screen capture below] of "Ecole Polytechnique Montreal" mass shooting of 35 years ago spoke about her desire to confiscate weapons. . . and she recited the names of all the women who were killed on December 7, 1989 by a man who killed himself {shooter Marc Lépine walked into a classroom full of students at the Montreal post-secondary school, ordered the men to leave, proclaimed his hatred for feminism, then opened fire, killing 14 women and injuring 14 others }
Marc Lepine is unnamed in the article below on the Montreal massacre in 1989:
Read more here on Nathalie Provost:
"Penny compared Provost's personal journey to a verse from the poem Half Hanged Mary by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, which is about a woman falsely accused of witchcraft.
"Before, I was not a witch. But now I am one," the poem declares, in a sentiment of solidarity with women who have been unfairly targeted because of their power and independence.
"I know that I am a witch, too," Provost said.
"As am I," Penny echoed.
'It just feels like a very dangerous time'
Penny says she was inspired to write Provost and the Montreal Massacre into her latest novel because of the alarming trends she sees playing out in the news — continuing gun violence and the rise of misogyny and far-right bigotry."
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