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Pink Shirt Day, an annual anti-bullying event, took place all across Alberta Feb. 24. The event originated 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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St. Jerome Elementary School in Edmonton
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Staff at the ATA
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St. Andrew’s School in High Prairie
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Staff of Aspen Grove School in Grande Prairie
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Teachers Natasha Hayduk (left) and Jody Colfer of Big Rock School in Okotoks.
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Staff at École francophone de Sherwood Park try on a huge pink shirt they made and which students filled with signatures and anti-bullying messages.