{"id":19571,"date":"2019-02-28T08:02:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T13:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=19571"},"modified":"2019-02-28T06:48:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T11:48:35","slug":"pink-shirt-day-statement-from-andrea-horwath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/28\/pink-shirt-day-statement-from-andrea-horwath\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Shirt Day Statement from Andrea Horwath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Horwath, Leader of the Official Opposition Ontario NDP, issued the following statement on Pink Shirt Day:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Pink Shirt Day, we are inspired by the group of Nova Scotia students who stood up for a peer bullied for wearing pink by donning pink shirts themselves. Since then, Pink Shirt Day has served as a powerful reminder that we can\u2019t, and won\u2019t, tolerate bullying in any of its forms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ontario\u2019s New Democrats strive every day to help build a province where everyone, regardless of age, gender or sexual identity, ethnicity, religion, where they\u2019re from or what they look like, can live free from bullying. Whether it\u2019s at school, in the workplace or in public spaces, everyone deserves to feel protected from harassment. Today, we recommit to the education and vigilance needed to protect people from bullying, including cyber bullying \u2014 an insidious form of bullying that has caused immeasurable trauma and pain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The courage and commitment of those Nova Scotia students is a welcome reminder to us today to stand up for one another against bullying in all its forms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Horwath, Leader of the Official Opposition Ontario NDP, issued the following statement on Pink Shirt Day: &nbsp; \u201cOn Pink Shirt Day, we are inspired by the group of Nova Scotia students who stood up for a peer bullied for wearing pink by donning pink shirts themselves. Since then, Pink Shirt Day has served as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 23:20:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19572,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19571\/revisions\/19572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}