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MORE THAN 30% OF TEENS IN CANADA ARE VICTIMS OF BULLYING AT SCHOOL, ACCORDING TO UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA PROFESSOR DR. TRACY VAILLANCOURT

Cyber-bullying 613-style gets shut down

April 05, 2013

OTTAWA — The way high school kids are bullying each other these days makes Tina Fey’s “Mean Girls” trite in comparison. An Instagram page slandering teen girls in the capital has been shut down following police involvement. The page, 613gahbas, was deleted Wednesday. “Gahba” is Arabic slang for whore, slut, b—h, or prostitute. Instagram is [...]

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Bullying and borderline personality disorder: a missing link

Bullying and borderline personality disorder: a missing link

April 04, 2013

Children abused by adults are known to be at increased risk of developing the serious and persistent mental illness known as borderline personality-disorder (BPD). New research suggests that bullying and victimization by other children during the elementary school years should be acknowledged as another important risk factor. Psychologists in Britain, Germany and the United States [...]

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Cyber-bullying out of control in Peel, say police

Cyber-bullying out of control in Peel, say police

April 03, 2013

Cyber-bullying is getting out of hand in Mississauga and Brampton, and young teens could be charged if they post and send messages without thinking about the consequences, Peel Regional Police said today in launching an initiative to combat the problem. Peel police Deputy Chief Dan McDonald told reporters that although final numbers are still being [...]

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Iowa teen sues school over bullying

Iowa teen sues school over bullying

April 02, 2013

A teenager in Iowa has sued school officials, who he says failed to protect him from severe bullying, which included an attack that left him disabled. The teen said that two students approached him in October, and started to strike him in the back of his head with a football. According to BBC, the two students [...]

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Bullying becomes profitable topic for publishers

Bullying becomes profitable topic for publishers

April 01, 2013

Nobody likes a bully — but these days the book industry loves having them to kick around. Publishing houses are flooding the market with titles that tackle bullying. The books are aimed at all age groups: Bully is a picture book for elementary-grade students, The Bully Book is for middle-school children, and Sticks and Stones [...]

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Why you must stop bullying to avoid long term harm – to the bully and the victim

Why you must stop bullying to avoid long term harm – to the bully and the victim

March 26, 2013

If you ever needed to be convinced of the harm bullying can do here’s the proof. A new study has shown that being bullied can scar a child for life. I find the idea of a child being victimised, insulted, embarrassed, even physically abused by other children, very painful indeed. It’s inhuman and it’s cruel [...]

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The idea that bullying causes lasting harm gains credence

The idea that bullying causes lasting harm gains credence

March 25, 2013

In my view, the term “bullying” risks understating the severity of the offense, like calling someone a “troll” often soft-pedals the gravity of making sexist, racist and gratuitously incendiary online comments. Bullying sounds too much like hectoring or bossing; not admirable, but not heinous either, at least inside the boys-will-be-boys culture. Growing up, I witnessed [...]

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Miss Northeast Counties Mikaela Carson has been traveling in two states giving speeches during school assemblies about bullying. She’s not the only pageant winner to take on bullying in schools. Here, Miss North Carolina Ashley Mills talks with a student at Hope Valley Elementary school in Durham N.C., during her anti-bullying tour in February.  Bernard Thomas, The Herald-Sun/AP

What is a bully? Pageant winner shares her personal story on school tour

March 22, 2013

Bullies are most-often thought of in a physical sense, a person who pushes others around and uses his or her size advantage to strike fear into others. That kind of bullying continues today, and is joined by more subtle siblings that victimize many, and often without knowledge of those in positions to stop it. Miss [...]

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AZ student burned by bullies, beaten for tattling

AZ student burned by bullies, beaten for tattling

March 21, 2013

An Apache Junction middle school student could have permanent scars after he says his own classmates burned him on the bus. His mother is worried about the emotional scars and is demanding the school protect her son from bullies. Cactus Canyon Junior High School seventh-grader Reinhard Zorko, 13, has missed school the last couple of [...]

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Bullying of rape victim exposes big problem in Torrington schools

EDITORIAL: Bullying of rape victim exposes big problem in Torrington schools

March 20, 2013

We hope and trust that the posture of denial and defensiveness Torrington school officials have taken toward the idea that there is a culture of abuse and harassment emanating from the high school football program will be dropped very quickly this morning. The city woke up to detailed revelations in The Register Citizen about a coach who [...]

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3 Ways to Smack Down a Grown-Up Bully

3 Ways to Smack Down a Grown-Up Bully

March 19, 2013

When we think of bullying, usually kids on a playground or teens using social media platforms come to mind, not adult neighbors or coworkers in a conference room. However, the young bullies of yesterday can (and do) turn into the adult bullies of tomorrow. According to recent data, adult bullying is on the rise: In [...]

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Gay teen holds the line for Manitoba bullying bill

Gay teen holds the line for Manitoba bullying bill

March 18, 2013

This was never meant to become a battle, and Evan Wiens didn’t expect to find himself in the thick of it. Instead, it all began as routine: Manitoba’s government, spurred by the high-profile suicide of B.C. teen Amanda Todd, tabled a bill that would beef up its bullying laws. Worded as a largely boilerplate protection [...]

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