Teen sexual exploitation proliferating online
Tip line was contacted about B.C. teen who killed herself
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Information came through reporting tool on school website
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Red Hood Project is response to death of Amanda Todd
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From the turmoil of Quebec to the rise of the West
View ArticleGenes play role in bullying: study
Inherited behavioural tendencies lead to victimization
View ArticleTeen killed herself after sex assault, bullying: mother
Nova Scotia may review handling of Rehtaeh Parsons case
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Effect may extend to straight students
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Suicide prevention stepped up from Nova Scotia to BC
View ArticleLady Gaga goes to Harvard to launch anti-bullying foundation
There’s something odd about the fact an audience of privileged Harvard students played host to yesterday’s launch of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation, an organization designed to combat bullying...
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Strict anti-bullying laws could actually make matters worse
Getty Images Schoolyard bullies have been around for as long as there’ve been school yards. Could a new law finally make them go away? Ontario recently introduced legislation to rid schools of bullies....
View ArticleOttawa police investigate “memes”
QuickMemes, with their block-letter jokes superimposed on photos, have been shared on Canadian students’ Facebook walls for much of the past year. Many of them are funny. But Arun Smith of Carleton...
View ArticleBullied N.Y. school bus monitor comes to Toronto for $700,000 cheque
TORONTO – An American grandmother who was relentlessly bullied by a group of boys while working as a school bus monitor is receiving some Canadian love and lots of money raised by a Toronto man....
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Confessions of a former mean girl
Mean Girls (Paramount Pictures) This essay first appeared in The Ryersonian. When I think back to Grade 7, most things are a haze. I had just started at a new school and I was well into my awkward...
View ArticleTeen who posted anti-bullying video kills herself
There was an outpouring of condolences on social media following the suspected suicide of a British Columbia teenager who last month posted a gut-wrenching video to YouTube of her treatment at the...
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I was bullied every day—then things got better
The author at age 15 When I read about Amanda Todd’s suicide, I was affected, not only because someone so young decided to take her life, but also because of how it reminded me of my own adolescence....
View ArticlePolice in London, Ont., arrest eight girls in bullying investigation
LONDON, Ont. – Police in London, Ont., say they have arrested eight girls in connection with a bullying case. Police say the arrests were made as part of an investigation that revealed a student at a...
View ArticleAnti-bullying expert defends memo sent to B.C. school district
VANCOUVER – An anti-bullying expert is defending a memo she co-authored that cautioned school districts around British Columbia about showing classes a YouTube video shot by Amanda Todd before her...
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Amanda Todd: shunned in life, remembered in death
Mark Blinch/Reuters In the opening moments of the video, Amanda Todd flashes a brief smile. Fifteen years old, her hair long and curly, she is holding a white piece of paper in front of the camera....
View ArticleDean Del Mastro vs. The Internet
The Conservative MP suggests Parliament should think about dealing with anonymous Internet commenters. One of the best ways to end on-line and electronic bullying, libel and slander would be to force...
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Anti-bullying on the Hill with Jer’s Vision
Jer’s Vision, Canada’s Youth Diversity Initiative, held a special reception on the Hill for parliamentarians to raise awareness about bullying and diversity. Pink cupcakes were served. The post...
View ArticleB.C. launches online tool for kids to report bullying
VANCOUVER – The B.C. government has unveiled an online tool designed to let children anonymously report bullying to school administrators. The province has been working on its Erase Bullying strategy...
View ArticleRaffi launches Red Hood Project in reaction to Amanda Todd case
TORONTO – Children’s entertainer and advocate Raffi says he was “shaken” and “angry” when he heard about the death of Amanda Todd, a British Columbia teen who committed suicide in October following...
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Book review: Why bullying is complicated
A few things you might not know about bullying: it isn’t on the rise. Bazelon reports that stats have remained constant since the ’70s. And while the numbers are alarming, they don’t suggest an...
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Plastic surgery: Where do parents draw the line?
Photo illustration by Lauren Cattermole Kelly Jarvis still remembers being called buck-toothed as a kid. The North Vancouver mother of two had a severe overbite that didn’t get fixed until Grade 8....
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When the bully is your other kid
Photo illustration by Sarah MacKinnon For years, Nancy Kilgore shared a bedroom with an older sister who terrorized her when her parents weren’t watching. The older sister, often put in charge to...
View ArticleFeds to announce anti-bullying program at school of late teen
OTTAWA – The suicide of 15-year-old Jamie Hubley in the fall of 2011 was a tragedy that hit the local community hard, but personal connections sent the heartache reverberating through the halls of...
View ArticleWestern premiers discuss bullies; say topic will be part of all-premiers meeting
WINNIPEG – Canada’s western premiers say bullying is a serious issue and all provinces and territories need to find ways to tackle the new dimension that the Internet brings to the torment. Following a...
View ArticleReport calls for new law against sharing intimate photos without consent
OTTAWA – There should be a law against distributing intimate photos without someone’s consent, says a new report commissioned after the suicide of a Nova Scotia teen. Rehtaeh Parsons hanged herself in...
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Cyberbullying and its victims
Cyberbullying isn’t just a problem for kids. Online tormentors don’t discriminate by age: On average, seven per cent of Canadian adults have experienced some form of cyberbullying. Our graphic below...
View ArticleSaskatchewan mom says teen son killed himself because of constant bullying
NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. – Kim Loik says she told her 15-year-old son Todd to ignore the bullies and the constant barrage of insults they were sending to him on Facebook and through texts on his...
View ArticleLucien Bouchard reveals he was bullied as a kid, joins awareness campaign
MONTREAL – Lucien Bouchard says he was bullied as a kid and now he’s sharing his story to help denounce the phenomenon. The former Quebec premier made the revelation in an online video released...
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An anti-bully intervention gone awry
Josef Kubicek/Getty Images In court documents, she is identified only as “Jane,” an Ontario student who was 14 when police came to take her away. Jane (a pseudonym and stock photo are used to protect...
View ArticleTwitter account claimed to expose sexual behaviour of teens
TORONTO – Toronto police are investigating a Twitter account that purported to expose the sexual behaviour of high school students — a fate that some of its 1,500 teenage followers believe the victims...
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The secret lives of networked teens
Danah Boyd (Photo by Lee Towndrow) Danah Boyd, 36, an academic at Harvard and New York universities and a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, is one of the most influential voices in the field...
View ArticleHarassment, bullying continues in RCMP: Liberal MP
VANCOUVER – Harassment and bullying hasn’t been stamped out inside the RCMP workplace despite high-level assurances that action would be taken, says a Liberal MP who has met with dozens of Mounties. MP...
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Hamid Aminzada, 1995-2014
Hamid Aminzada was born on Jan. 8, 1995, in Peshawar, Pakistan, to Adela, a homemaker, and Sabir, a driver with the International Medical Corps, a non-governmental organization working with Afghan...
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Are boys even meaner than ‘mean girls’?
Stockbyte Ten years ago, Rachel McAdams’s role as Regina George in Mean Girls brought female bullying to the forefront of social consciousness. Mean girls seemed to mostly gossip, backstab and reject...
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Q&A: Shauna Hunt on why she stood up to FHRITP
Shauna Hunt interviews a Toronto FC soccer fan in Toronto on Sunday, May 10, 2015, in this video frame grab. (CITY NEWS/CP) Listen to Maclean’s pop-culture podcast the Thrill, where this interview...
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