Episode 21: The Ecole Polytechnique massacre

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🗓️ 4 December 2016

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

On December 6, 1989, a man carrying a dark plastic bag containing a long object walked into the main building of Ecole Polytechnique, a suicide note in his pocket and hate for women in his heart. An hour and a half later he and fourteen women would be dead, inspiring changes in Canadian gun laws.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, this is Jennifer Matarise, and just a couple of things before I start.
0:06.0	You may have heard me mention or seen me link on one of the accounts for disaster area that I've started a Kickstarter for the podcast.
0:13.0	The intent is to improve the podcast by buying new equipment, setting up a website, paying fees, and buying research materials.
0:22.1	What I hope is to make the podcast the best it can be.
0:25.9	Research is easy. Affording the improvements is hard.
0:29.9	As with the Patreon, donations of $25 and over to the Kickstarter will entitle the donor to
0:35.6	provide the subject of an episode which I will complete
0:38.5	in January and February, although I may stretch it into March if there are a large number of donors
0:43.9	giving that much. I'd just like to preemptively thank anyone who can donate. I know I seem to
0:49.6	start every episode these days asking for help, but I love doing the podcast and I don't have ads, so I do what I
0:55.8	can. And if you can, please share the link to the Kickstarter with your friends. I will provide
1:04.1	a link on the Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts for the podcast. Also, because of the
1:10.4	Kickstarter promotion, I've decided to do something
1:12.8	a little like National Novel Writing Month in December, but specifically for this podcast.
1:18.9	The goal is to put out five episodes by the end of the month, including this one. I've already
1:25.3	chosen the disasters, and I plan to buckle down and get them all done as soon as possible.
1:30.5	Those of you who listen regularly know I've been getting them out up every two weeks or so at this rate,
1:37.4	but because of the Kickstarter, I'd like to give you guys as much as I can. I'd also like to preemptively
1:42.6	apologize for my pronunciation of the French words and names used in this can. I'd also like to preemptively apologize for my pronunciation of the French words
1:45.6	and names used in this episode. I tried to verify the pronunciation for many of the words
1:51.9	and names involved, but my pronunciation in French is really bad, so I highly doubt I will
1:58.6	get everything right. I did phonetically write out one or two things so
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