Monday is Pink Shirt Day in many Canadian schools, communities and workplaces. The idea is Canadian but it has spread to many countries. Pink Shirt Day originated in 2007 after two Nova Scotia teenagers encouraged their fellow students to wear pink T-shirts in support of a pupil who was being bullied. Mayor John Tory was scheduled to join the Toronto Wolfpack rugby team and an anti-bullying organization to celebrate the day at St. Mary’s Catholic School. Other poltical leaders and citizens are doing similar activities.
HOCKEY PLAYER TAUNTED FOR RACE IN QUEBEC
A Quebec hockey league has apologized to a black player who says he and his family left a game in St. Jerome before the third period because they were being taunted with racist remarks from the stands. Jonathan Diaby, 24, is a defenceman for the Marquis de Jonquière, a team in the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey, a Quebec-based, semi-professional independent hockey league. CBC
