On Tuesday, February 25, Holy Name will be participating in Pink Shirt Day & Shrove Tuesday. Celebrated annually around the globe, Pink Shirt Day started in Canada in 2007, when two Nova Scotia high school students, David Shepherd and Travis Price, decided to take a stand against homophobic bullying after a grade 10 student was harassed and threatened for wearing pink. David and Travis
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April 2 marks World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD) that aims to put a spotlight on the hurdles that people with autism and others living with autism face every day. As a growing global health issue owing to its increasing exposure in the press and common knowledge, autism is an issue that is only gaining more understanding and WAAD activities are planned every year to further ... Continue reading "Autism Awareness Day"