I spent most of yesterday afternoon watching live updates from CBC. Even though I wasn't old enough to remember, I immediately thought of the tragedy at Ecole Polytechnique.

There was definitely a subdued atmosphere on my university campus today. A tragedy such as this reminds us that schools are really the only institutional public space where we aren't truly safe. I heard one sociology professor on the news last night claim that we need to have more security measures in our schools, such as metal detectors and fingerprint scanning, from the highest educational instutionals right down to your elementary schools.