Filipino students at McMaster leading event today to remember victims of Lapu-Lapu Day attack [Video]

A gathering led by Filipino groups at McMaster University is aiming to honour the 11 people killed in Vancouver during the Lapu-Lapu Day event last month.

The groups began organizing after realizing there was a need in Hamilton for “a space for us to connect and check in with how people are, because no one’s checking in [on us],” said Anabelle Ragsag, a PhD candidate at McMaster’s School of Social Work.

The gathering takes place Saturday from 3 to 6 p.m. within McMaster’s Office of Community Engagement at 8 Mayfair Crescent.

It’s being held exactly two weeks after 11 people were killed and dozens were injured on April 26, when an SUV was driven into a crowded Lapu-Lapu Day festival.

Ragsag said she felt “selfish” at first for feeling grief over the attack.

“I was feeling that I’m mourning and I am angry and I feel just in a way …