An anti-bully intervention gone awry
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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...
View ArticleThe secret lives of networked teens
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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...
View ArticleHamid 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...
View ArticleAre 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...
View ArticleQ&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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