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Worst Mass-Workplace Murder Cases in Canada
December 1989
14 women killed by anti-feminist Marc Lepine at Montreal's
Ecole Polytechnique engineering school. Lepine wounded another 9
women and 4 men and fatally shot himself.
1975
13 people die after being herded into a storage room in
Montreal's Gargantua nightclub. Some were shot but most suffocated
when the building was set on fire in what was believed to be an underworld
contract hit.
September, 1992
9 miners killed by deliberately set blast in Yellowknife's
Giant Mine. Roger Warren, a striking miner, sentenced to life
in prison for setting the bomb during a bitter strike-lockout.
April 1999
4 employees killed at OC
Transport transit garage in
Ottawa by co-worker, Pierre Lebrun. Lebrun, who had complained
of ongoing harassment in the workplace, then killed himself.
1992
4 members of engineering faculty at Concordia University
in Montreal gunned down by a disgruntled colleague-- sentenced to life in
prison.
1984
3 people killed by wild machine-gun fire when Canadian
Forces Cpl. Denis Lortie invades the Quebec legislature.
1992
3 people killed and a fourth was injured after a botched
robbery at a McDonald's restaurant in Sydney River, N.S. Three men
were handed life sentences for the triple-slaying.
1992
3 shot to death at Ontario Glove, a plant in Waterloo, by
co-worker Patrick Dombroskie. He then drove to nearby Cambridge and
surrendered.
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