Former Saskatchewan Roughrider and Canadian Red Cross rep Luc Mullinder congratulates grade three student Ainsley Sax as the winner of the K+S Pink Day t-shirt contest. (Photo: Moises Canales/620 CKRM) Photo taken pre COVID-19.
If you notice more people wearing pink on Wednesday, there’s a very important reason as to why.
It’s the 14th annual Pink Shirt Day, a day created in 2007 to combat bullying in all walks of life.
Remember to rock your pink today for #PinkShirtDay! –@markjohnstonfm pic.twitter.com/eOhFajGO20
— play 92 Regina (@play92regina) February 24, 2021
It was 14-years-ago two boys at a Cambridge Nova Scotia High School wore pink shirts to class and rallied many others to do the same after they saw a fellow male student being bullied for wearing pink the day before.
Since that day one in five kids are still affected by bullying in some form everyday.
