By Stephanie Villella

Hatters celebrate Pink Shirt Day

Feb 22, 2017 | 1:32 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB– Today is National Pink Shirt Day, a day to raise awareness against bullying and promote healthy relationships.

Police say bullying is a big problem in schools, the workplace, and online.  Wearing a pink shirt symbolizes that society will not tolerate bullying.

Const. David Chow with the Medicine Hat Police Service says the main goal of Pink Shirt Day is to remind everyone to be kind to one another.

“We are a safe place and that we can be approached if they are experiencing anything like [bullying],” he said.

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Although there is no school this week in Medicine Hat, students still celebrated the anti-bullying campaign a week earlier on February 15th, while the rest of Canadians are wearing pink today.
 
Alberta Human Services says 80 percent of Albertans have witnessed bullying but only 10 to 25 percent intervene.  Const. Chow says it’s difficult for bystanders to stand up.

“I know from speaking with youth it’s a lot of fear of reprisal and that whether they are in the group that is bullying other people, sometimes they don’t want to make themselves the target,” he said

Pink Shirt Day started 10 years ago in Nova Scotia by two high school students who witnessed a boy being bullied for wearing a pink shirt and since then it has become a national anti-bullying campaign.