Pink Shirt day is next Wednesday, and this year’s theme is Let Kindness Grow.

Bruce Krentz, Health Promotion Co-ordinator with the Northern Health Region has more.

“Pink Shirt Day is an anti-bullying awareness day when we really dig in on bullying. It started in schools but bullying happens in workplaces and it happens around town and it happens when you are volunteering. It happens all over the place and we;re trying to put an end to that.”  

Pink Shirt Day – also called Anti-Bullying Day – first began in 2007, when students in Nova Scotia rallied with their male classmate by wearing pink to school after he was subject to bullying for doing the same.

The pink shirt became a symbol of anti-bullying and, in the years following, schools across Canada joined in to support the message.

Now, everyone is encouraged to do the same.