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The board held its first &#8220;Pink Day&#8221; at many schools this past year, where students wore pink to back the fight against homophobia. Blackburn told CBC News there hasn&#8217;t been any backlash and it was time for the board to step up its endorsement of gay rights.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/story\/2011\/08\/09\/ottawa-schoolboard-gaypride.html\" target=\"_blank\">CBC News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=172516468500&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:comments numposts=\"10\" width=\"425\" publish_feed=\"true\"><\/fb:comments><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa-Carleton District school board trustees hope more than 100 students, parents and staff will join them as they march in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,195],"tags":[11,12523,12311],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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