We invite you to read the latest issue of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology – IUBMB Newsletter, now available online on the IUBMB website.

The Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences is currently holding its annual board meeting in Montreal on December 6^th, 2019. This is the 30^th anniversary of the École Polytechnique de Montréal massacre, where young women pursuing education in engineering were targeted specifically because they were women in a field that the shooter felt should be reserved for men. However, his anti-feminist hate extended beyond women in engineering and he went on to murder a woman in nursing and a female staff member. This violent misogyny has no place in Canada, in our educational institutions or our homes and yet we know that gender-based violence continues to exist at alarming rates in Canada. + + + →