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The Tragically Hip honours 1989 Ecole Polytechnique massacre victims with new 'Montreal' music video

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Canadian rock band the Tragically Hip have released a new music video to honour the victims of the mass shooting at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal on Dec. 6, 1989.

Ten women and four men were also injured after a gunman opened fire at the Universite de Montreal鈥檚 engineering school 32 years ago.

The band released the video on the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women.

The video shows The Tragically Hip playing their song 鈥楳ontreal鈥 live at what was then the Molson Centre in Montreal in 2000.

The video also features portrait sketches of the women who were killed in the attack.

The women killed that day were Anne-Marie Edward, Anne-Marie Lemay, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte, Barbara Daigneault, Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, Genevi猫ve Bergeron, H茅l猫ne Colgan, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Lagani猫re, Maryse Leclair, Mich猫le Richard, Nathalie Croteau and Sonia Pelletier.

All but two of the victims killed in the shooting were engineering students at the university.

The portrait sketches included in the music video are by artist Stew Jones, while the background paintings are by Willo Downie.

The video, directed by Mike Downie and Tim Thompson, also depicts Mont Royal where 14 beams of light are projected into the sky every year on Dec. 6, in remembrance of the women who were killed.

In a message included at the end of the video, the band said they 鈥渟tand with the families of the 14 victims and the survivors of the femicide at Ecole Polytechnique in 1989.鈥

鈥淲e fully support their ongoing effort to ban all semi-automatic assault weapons,鈥 the message reads.

The band鈥檚 song 鈥楳ontreal鈥 was featured on the band鈥檚 EP Saskadelphia released in May. The EP features six previously unreleased songs that were written for their 1991 album 鈥楻oad Apples.鈥

In a post on Twitter, the band said they have also created a CD and flexi disc single with the song 鈥楳ontreal,鈥 and 鈥業t鈥檚 a Good Life if you Don鈥檛 Weaken,鈥 featuring the artist Feist.

The Tragically Hip said they will be will be bundled with t-shirts, with proceeds from the sales to be donated to the PolyRemembers/PolySeSouvient group.

In a post on Twitter on Monday, Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante said the memory of the attack is 鈥渟till painful.鈥

鈥淔or too many women, violence continues to be a part of everyday life,鈥 she wrote in French. 鈥淟et us remember, so that violence against women stops and that they have a future that belongs to them.鈥

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also paid tribute to the victims of the attack.

鈥淲e honour their memory and unite our voices in condemning the misogyny that led to this tragedy,鈥 he said in a .

Trudeau invited Canadians to 鈥渉onour the victims of the Ecole Polytechnique massacre.鈥

鈥淥ur thoughts are with their loved ones as well as the survivors of this senseless tragedy,鈥 he said. 鈥淟et us also reflect on what we can all do 鈥 through our words and actions 鈥 to end gender-based violence and foster a society where women, girls, and gender diverse people feel safe, are respected, and can reach their full potential.鈥

With files from The Canadian Press

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