Today's the Red Cross' Pink Day in Manitoba, and several Portage Collegiate Institute students wore pink to school in effort to protest bullying.

Alyssa Mason"Pink Day started when a boy in Halifax wore a pink t-shirt on the first day of school and was significantly bullied for it," explains Kellee Clifford-Bousquet, guidance counselor and students services head. "Some of his classmates and schoolmates got together and wore pink the next day in support of him and his choices of being who he wants to be what colour of shirt he wants to wear."

She says that spread across the country and there are now two Pink Days in Manitoba. One takes place in February as well as today. She adds PCI celebrates the one taking place this month, but the school considers every day as Pink Day with everyone standing up in respect for each other. Clifford-Bousquet feels the effort makes difference and certainly brings awareness, keeping the topic at the forefront. She adds they want to do preventative work, not just reactive. She says it's intended to tie in with the school's Sources Of Strength suicide prevention program.

Kellee Clifford-BousquetGrade 10 student Alyssa Mason says it makes a change for people who have friends who've been bullied since people come together for a good cause. She adds she encouraged friends to wear pink today and notes she likes the story of the students who came together to be there for the boy who was bullied.