{"id":815,"date":"2021-12-06T14:16:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T14:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/2021\/12\/06\/flags-at-half-mast-for-national-day-of-remembrance-and-action-on-violence-against-women\/"},"modified":"2021-12-06T14:16:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T14:16:31","slug":"flags-at-half-mast-for-national-day-of-remembrance-and-action-on-violence-against-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/2021\/12\/06\/flags-at-half-mast-for-national-day-of-remembrance-and-action-on-violence-against-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Flags at half-mast for National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To mark <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/women-gender-equality.canada.ca\/en\/commemorations-celebrations\/16-days\/national-day-remembrance.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on Monday, December 6, flags at all Ontario government buildings, including Waterloo Region District School Board schools and worksites, will be flown at half-mast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every year, we remember the 14 female engineering students who were murdered at l&#8217;\u00c9cole Polytechnique de Montr\u00e9al on December 6, 1989 by an act of gender-based violence. We also commemorate the missing and murdered Indigenous women, the trans-women, and each and every woman in Canada and across the world whose lives have been harmed or lost to gender-based violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join us on <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/wrdsb\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wr_dsb\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to take the pledge that you do not stand for gender-based violence using the hashtag #MyActionsMatter.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women on Monday, December 6, flags at all Ontario government buildings, including Waterloo Region District School Board schools and worksites, will be flown at half-mast. Every year, we remember the 14 female engineering students who were murdered at l&#8217;\u00c9cole Polytechnique de Montr\u00e9al on December [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\" role=\"complementary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/2021\/12\/06\/flags-at-half-mast-for-national-day-of-remembrance-and-action-on-violence-against-women\/\"><strong>Read more about<\/strong> <cite>Flags at half-mast for National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women<\/cite> &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}