December 6th, 1989. It's a day marked with great sadness and is remembered throughout Canada as the day 14 young women lost their lives in a school shooting targeted towards women.

It's a day now recognized as the National Day of Remembrance And Action On Violence Against Women.

Saskpolytechnic held a display on campus on December 6th recognizing the victims of the shooting.

Selinda England is an Intercultural Educator for the Instructional Leadership Center at Saskpolytechnic and explains more about the day.

"As you know from history December 6th, 1989 was a very dark day in Canada, it was the result of one man's action who entered a Polytechnique school in Quebec and specifically targeted women within the engineering department. 14 women lost their lives that day and as a national response the Canadian government implemented this national day of remembrance."

England commented on how Canada has changed since that terrible day.

"I think if anything it has made people a lot more aware of gender-based violence and that there is no shame in reporting or drawing awareness to it. For example, I noticed on the pledge forms one person had signed their name and put in brackets 'survivor' and I think just the word survivor alone is phenomenal. It really shows that people have gone through this even within our institutional community and now there is a space where they can feel safe."