At an annual ceremony in Montreal, where 14 beams of light fill the sky in memory of the victims of the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre, a 15th light was added to remember victims of femicide across the globe. Still not enshrined in the Criminal Code of Canada, Heather Yourex-West reports on the push to change that.
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