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FOG BLOG CANADA NEWS LOG: 32 YRS SINCE THE POLYTECHNIQUE MURDERS , TRAGICALLY HIP HONOURS WITH SONG:

The Tragically Hip honours 1989 Ecole Polytechnique massacre victims with new 'Montreal' music video...BARRIE -- Canadian rock band the Tragically Hip have released a new music video to honour the victims of the mass shooting at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal on Dec. 6, 1989.

Ten women and four men were also injured after a gunman opened fire at the Universite de Montreal’s engineering school 32 years ago.

The band released the video on the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women...The video shows The Tragically Hip playing their song ‘Montreal’ live at what was then the Molson Centre in Montreal in 2000.

The video also features portrait sketches of the women who were killed in the attack.

The women killed that day were Anne-Marie Edward, Anne-Marie Lemay, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte, Barbara Daigneault, Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Michèle Richard, Nathalie Croteau and Sonia Pelletier.

All but two of the victims killed in the shooting were engineering students at the university.

The portrait sketches included in the music video are by artist Stew Jones, while the background paintings are by Willo Downie.

The video, directed by Mike Downie and Tim Thompson, also depicts Mont Royal where 14 beams of light are projected into the sky every year on Dec. 6, in remembrance of the women who were killed.


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