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McMaster remembers lives ended by violence

At McMaster's 15th annual commemoration service for the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, candles will be lit in memory of 14 women murdered 15 years ago at Ecole Polytechnique, four McMaster women whose lives were ended by violence and 500 Aboriginal women who have gone missing or murdered in Canada over the last 20 years. "Fifteen years ago, on Dec. 6, the thin wall that separates life and death was pierced by a young man who chose violence as a path," says Carol Wood, ecumenical chaplain from Divinity College. "It was clearly an act of violence against women, as Mark Lepine separated women from men and shot them. This senseless act of gender violence has mobilized both women and men in the effort to remember the 14 women who died and to advocate on behalf of all victims of gender violence." Today's service begins at 5:30 p.m. in Gilmour Hall, Council Chambers, Rm. 111.