It was 17 years ago in Nova Scotia that a few Grade 12 students witnessed a Grade 9 student being bullied because he was wearing a pink shirt.  They bought a bunch of pink shirts and handed them out and by the end of the week, most of the students were wearing pink. That’s how Pink Shirt Day began, to raise awareness about bullying, and it has become a global movement.

Both the Greater Saskatoon Catholic School Division and Saskatoon Public Schools say each of their schools is marking the day in their own way. Statistics Canada reported in 2019 that 70 per cent of youth experience some form of bullying. About two in five, or 42 per cent reported experiencing it monthly or more frequently.
Fifty-nine per cent of those who said they had been bullied said they had been made fun of or insulted, followed by 34 per cent saying rumours had been spread about them and 32 per cent said they had been excluded from activities. In 2019, 25 per cent of teens between 12 and 17 reported experiencing cyberbullying in the previous year.