Canadians must get serious about combatting hate speech and gender violence

Banning specific guns is only a small part of the overall effort Canadians need to undertake if the country is going to confront the rise of violence and hate-mongering, particularly against women.

There’s a direct line over the decades connecting the Montreal massacre to the outpouring of sexualized hate and threats that forced the government to give former environment minister Catherine McKenna a security detail earlier this year, writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

December 11, 2019

OTTAWA—Belatedly, but importantly, the city of Montreal last week marked the 30th year since the murder by a Quebec man of 14 women at the École Polytechnique by officially naming the incident for was what it was—an attack on feminists. The type of semi-automatic weapon used by the ...

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