In the late afternoon of December 6, 1989, an angry young man with a semi-automatic rifle walked into the registrar's office at École Polytechnique, the University of Montréal's engineering school. After twenty minutes, 14 women lay dead, and 14 others, mostly women, were injured. He had compiled a hit list of 19 other women he wanted to murder. Journalist and prominent feminist Francine Pelletier learned that she was one of them.