A Day of Remembrance.....for December 6, 1917 and December 6, 1989.

Lately I've been listening to Jian Ghomeshi's "Q" on CBC. He interviewed Governor General Award winning playwright Colleen Murphy for her play The December Man an account of the aftermath of the Montreal massacre.

"I was interested in looking beyond the headlines and looking at the footnotes, because so often when you hear about these things — and they saturate the news about four days and then they disappear — one wonders what happened to the people that were touched by it," Murphy said.

"I wanted to look at this public event, but very indirectly, so that's why I chose a young man that was there and left and how that action that day that he took affected the rest of his life and the life of his family," Murphy said.

The small bit of the play she read was tremendously moving. It was a crime against women, more specifically women in engineering, a traditional male bastion.