Brielle Chanae Thorsen at the Four Directions Indigenous Student Centre, at Queen's University, in Kingston, Ont., in October, 2018.An Indigenous engineering student is this year’s recipient of the Order of the White Rose from Polytechnique Montreal in memory of the victims and survivors of the 1989 anti-feminist attack on the school.
That wasn’t the case for the 14 women – mostly students – gunned down. Thirteen others – nine women and four men – were injured by Marc Lepine during a 20-minute shooting rampage at the Montreal engineering school on Dec. 6, 1989. Although she was born after the tragic events of 1989, Thorsen is well aware of what happened that day. And she knows that this scholarship carries a special weight and significance.
She also recalled during group work at university where she was treated differently because of gender; male classmates ignored her suggestions and comments despite listening to the other men, she said.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)