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Students and school staff all across the province donned pink attire on Feb. 25 in recognition of Pink Shirt Day. The annual anti-bullying event started in Nova Scotia in 2007 when two high school students encouraged their classmates to wear pink as a show of support for a student at their school who had been bullied for wearing a pink shirt.
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Teacher Andrew Parker of M.E. LaZerte High School in Edmonton takes a selfie with two students and David Edward Garcia (right), the school’s guest speaker for Pink Shirt Day.
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Our Lady of Assumption School in Lethbridge
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Students from Blackie (east of High River) form a heart.
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About 375 students and staff created a “river of pink” that filled the hallways of Evergreen Elementary School in Drayton Valley.
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A shirt worn at St. Patrick Fine Arts Elementary School in Lethbridge.
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Staff at the Rocky View Schools office in Airdrie gather for a photo with division mascot Rocky Raccoon, whose pink shirt is size XXXL.
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Students from Calling Lake School.