Ceremonies are underway today to mark the 25th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre where 14 women were shot to death at the Ecole Polytechnique.
White roses were laid down at a plaque outside the Polytechnique to remember the victims.
There will also be a torchlit procession through the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery.
Marc Lepine's 20-minute shooting rampage at the Universite de Montreal's engineering school in 1989 sparked a national gun-control debate that rages until this day.
Lepine also wounded another 13 other people — nine women and four men — before taking his own life.
He ranted during the carnage that feminists had spoiled his life.
