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How Can We Protect Our Children from Bullying?

In March 2000 an honour-roll student named Hamed Nastoh jumped off the Pattullo Bridge in New Westminster, B. C. Hamed, 14, left a seven-page note that said he was killing himself because his classmates tormented him with names like gay or faggot. He had never told his mother he was being bullied.

Published in : Health & Well-Being » Family

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“You’re Not Alone”

This is the message that the teen founders of an anti-bullying website want victims to hear.

Published in : Magazine

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How to deal with a bullying problem

Your questions, answered by Cindi Seddon, cofounder of Coquitlam's Bully B'ware program, and a teacher as well as a school principal, and Halifax Regional Police officer Ian Burke, who conceived of and runs an Anti-bullying Hotline that receives hundreds of calls annually from both children and parents. Burke’s anti-bullying program is delivered to about 22,000 children each year, from pre-Kindergarten to Grade 12 students in Halifax, Dartmouth and Bedford. His own three children attend elementary school and junior high.

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