Calgary Stampede campaign gets extra funding to tackle sexual assaults year-round

CALGARY (NEWS 1130) – A campaign to keep women and girls safe during the Calgary Stampede is expanding to a year round project in the city.

The Calgary Sexual Health Centre is running Calgary Gets Consent, with the help of $47,300 from Alberta’s Status of Women branch.

Calgary Sexual Health Centre President, Pam Krause, says some people adopt an “anything goes” attitude during Stampede, and that can lead to sexual assaults.

“I think that we have seen some pretty negative consequences of that overall attitude that people have had. And I also don’t think it’s a universal want for people, I don’t think people want to see that kind of behaviour going on.”

The Centre has already trained bars, and Krause notes one owner who asked if staff should stop four men from dragging a woman out the door.

“People have sort of just said, ‘maybe it’s not my role to take this up’, and we are actually really talking about that. That’s not the case. It is everybody’s role.”

The same kind of workshops made to train Stampede staff to intervene in situations will now be offered year round to workers at the city’s bars and event venues.

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