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Amanda Todd’s death focuses attention on Commons anti-bullying debate
MPs to debate anti-bullying motion Monday
BY NATALIE STECHYSON, POSTMEDIA NEWS OCTOBER 15, 2012
OTTAWA — Canada’s MPs will debate a private member’s motion to develop a national bullying prevention strategy when they return to the House of Commons on Monday.
The motion, to be discussed so soon after B.C. teenager Amanda Todd’s apparent suicide after years of torment from bullies, is sure to garner attention, and NDP MP Dany Morin said he hopes that parliamentarians will put partisanship aside and move forward on his proposal.
The first step toward preventing bullying must be to study the prevalence and the impacts of it in Canada, Morin told CTV’s Question Period on Sunday. And looking at criminalizing cyber-bullying – a suggestion made by B.C. Premier Christy Clarke just after Todd’s death – is not the answer, Morin said.
“I was bullied as a teenager. I know first-hand what bullying really is like,” said Morin, the MP for Chicoutimi—Le Fjord.
“When the harm has been done, when a kid has been bullied for months, for years, bringing criminal charges to the bully will not solve the problem. The harm has been done. That is why I want the special committee to focus on prevention.”
Todd, 15, was found dead in a Port Coquitlam home last Wednesday – five weeks after posting a YouTube video outlining the abuse she endured both online and in person. The video has since gone viral and Todd’s story has made international headlines.
The RCMP has launched a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding her death.
“Unfortunately, there’s been a lot of media attention towards my motion due to Amanda Todd’s passing,” Morin said Sunday.
Morin’s motion, M-385, calls for the creation of a special 12-member, all-party committee to develop a national bullying prevention strategy.
The committee would be tasked with studying the prevalence and impacts of different types of bullying, identifying and adopting a range of anti-bullying best practices, promoting and spreading information to Canadian families, and providing support for organizations that work with young people “to promote positive and safe environments,” according to the motion.
But Allan Hubley, an Ottawa City Councillor who lost his own bullied son to suicide last year, says more study is not what’s needed right now.
“There is a time for action now instead of another study or anything like that,” Hubley told CTVs Question Period.
“The front line resources that will help these kids when they need it most, that moment when they’re about to make that decision, they are under-funded. That is where we need to put our energy and our efforts.”
Morin said he agreed with Hubley but that the first step must be to establish a broad view of the current situation.
Todd’s death has elicited reactions from other MPs. On Sunday, interim Liberal leader Bob Rae said on Twitter that he would be thinking of Todd “and so many others” when he spoke to a convention on suicide prevention in Niagara Falls, Ont.
And Kerry-Lynne Findlay, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice, said Saturday that her own teenage daughter has received death threats from other girls over a social networking site.
“We all recognize bullying is a tragedy. It shouldn’t be and doesn’t have to be a part of growing up. It’s not a right of passage,” she told CBC’s The House.
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MPs to debate anti-bullying motion Monday
BY NATALIE STECHYSON, POSTMEDIA NEWS OCTOBER 15, 2012
OTTAWA — Canada’s MPs will debate a private member’s motion to develop a national bullying prevention strategy when they return to the House of Commons on Monday.
The motion, to be discussed so soon after B.C. teenager Amanda Todd’s apparent suicide after years of torment from bullies, is sure to garner attention, and NDP MP Dany Morin said he hopes that parliamentarians will put partisanship aside and move forward on his proposal.
The first step toward preventing bullying must be to study the prevalence and the impacts of it in Canada, Morin told CTV’s Question Period on Sunday. And looking at criminalizing cyber-bullying – a suggestion made by B.C. Premier Christy Clarke just after Todd’s death – is not the answer, Morin said.
“I was bullied as a teenager. I know first-hand what bullying really is like,” said Morin, the MP for Chicoutimi—Le Fjord.
“When the harm has been done, when a kid has been bullied for months, for years, bringing criminal charges to the bully will not solve the problem. The harm has been done. That is why I want the special committee to focus on prevention.”
Todd, 15, was found dead in a Port Coquitlam home last Wednesday – five weeks after posting a YouTube video outlining the abuse she endured both online and in person. The video has since gone viral and Todd’s story has made international headlines.
The RCMP has launched a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding her death.
“Unfortunately, there’s been a lot of media attention towards my motion due to Amanda Todd’s passing,” Morin said Sunday.
Morin’s motion, M-385, calls for the creation of a special 12-member, all-party committee to develop a national bullying prevention strategy.
The committee would be tasked with studying the prevalence and impacts of different types of bullying, identifying and adopting a range of anti-bullying best practices, promoting and spreading information to Canadian families, and providing support for organizations that work with young people “to promote positive and safe environments,” according to the motion.
But Allan Hubley, an Ottawa City Councillor who lost his own bullied son to suicide last year, says more study is not what’s needed right now.
“There is a time for action now instead of another study or anything like that,” Hubley told CTVs Question Period.
“The front line resources that will help these kids when they need it most, that moment when they’re about to make that decision, they are under-funded. That is where we need to put our energy and our efforts.”
Morin said he agreed with Hubley but that the first step must be to establish a broad view of the current situation.
Todd’s death has elicited reactions from other MPs. On Sunday, interim Liberal leader Bob Rae said on Twitter that he would be thinking of Todd “and so many others” when he spoke to a convention on suicide prevention in Niagara Falls, Ont.
And Kerry-Lynne Findlay, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice, said Saturday that her own teenage daughter has received death threats from other girls over a social networking site.
“We all recognize bullying is a tragedy. It shouldn’t be and doesn’t have to be a part of growing up. It’s not a right of passage,” she told CBC’s The House.
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Amanda Todd’s death focuses attention on Commons anti-bullying debate
MPs to debate anti-bullying motion Monday
BY NATALIE STECHYSON, POSTMEDIA NEWS OCTOBER 15, 2012
OTTAWA — Canada’s MPs will debate a private member’s motion to develop a national bullying prevention strategy when they return to the House of Commons on Monday.
The motion, to be discussed so soon after B.C. teenager Amanda Todd’s apparent suicide after years of torment from bullies, is sure to garner attention, and NDP MP Dany Morin said he hopes that parliamentarians will put partisanship aside and move forward on his proposal.
The first step toward preventing bullying must be to study the prevalence and the impacts of it in Canada, Morin told CTV’s Question Period on Sunday. And looking at criminalizing cyber-bullying – a suggestion made by B.C. Premier Christy Clarke just after Todd’s death – is not the answer, Morin said.
“I was bullied as a teenager. I know first-hand what bullying really is like,” said Morin, the MP for Chicoutimi—Le Fjord.
“When the harm has been done, when a kid has been bullied for months, for years, bringing criminal charges to the bully will not solve the problem. The harm has been done. That is why I want the special committee to focus on prevention.”
Todd, 15, was found dead in a Port Coquitlam home last Wednesday – five weeks after posting a YouTube video outlining the abuse she endured both online and in person. The video has since gone viral and Todd’s story has made international headlines.
The RCMP has launched a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding her death.
“Unfortunately, there’s been a lot of media attention towards my motion due to Amanda Todd’s passing,” Morin said Sunday.
Morin’s motion, M-385, calls for the creation of a special 12-member, all-party committee to develop a national bullying prevention strategy.
The committee would be tasked with studying the prevalence and impacts of different types of bullying, identifying and adopting a range of anti-bullying best practices, promoting and spreading information to Canadian families, and providing support for organizations that work with young people “to promote positive and safe environments,” according to the motion.
But Allan Hubley, an Ottawa City Councillor who lost his own bullied son to suicide last year, says more study is not what’s needed right now.
“There is a time for action now instead of another study or anything like that,” Hubley told CTVs Question Period.
“The front line resources that will help these kids when they need it most, that moment when they’re about to make that decision, they are under-funded. That is where we need to put our energy and our efforts.”
Morin said he agreed with Hubley but that the first step must be to establish a broad view of the current situation.
Todd’s death has elicited reactions from other MPs. On Sunday, interim Liberal leader Bob Rae said on Twitter that he would be thinking of Todd “and so many others” when he spoke to a convention on suicide prevention in Niagara Falls, Ont.
And Kerry-Lynne Findlay, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice, said Saturday that her own teenage daughter has received death threats from other girls over a social networking site.
“We all recognize bullying is a tragedy. It shouldn’t be and doesn’t have to be a part of growing up. It’s not a right of passage,” she told CBC’s The House.
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MPs to debate anti-bullying motion Monday
BY NATALIE STECHYSON, POSTMEDIA NEWS OCTOBER 15, 2012
OTTAWA — Canada’s MPs will debate a private member’s motion to develop a national bullying prevention strategy when they return to the House of Commons on Monday.
The motion, to be discussed so soon after B.C. teenager Amanda Todd’s apparent suicide after years of torment from bullies, is sure to garner attention, and NDP MP Dany Morin said he hopes that parliamentarians will put partisanship aside and move forward on his proposal.
The first step toward preventing bullying must be to study the prevalence and the impacts of it in Canada, Morin told CTV’s Question Period on Sunday. And looking at criminalizing cyber-bullying – a suggestion made by B.C. Premier Christy Clarke just after Todd’s death – is not the answer, Morin said.
“I was bullied as a teenager. I know first-hand what bullying really is like,” said Morin, the MP for Chicoutimi—Le Fjord.
“When the harm has been done, when a kid has been bullied for months, for years, bringing criminal charges to the bully will not solve the problem. The harm has been done. That is why I want the special committee to focus on prevention.”
Todd, 15, was found dead in a Port Coquitlam home last Wednesday – five weeks after posting a YouTube video outlining the abuse she endured both online and in person. The video has since gone viral and Todd’s story has made international headlines.
The RCMP has launched a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding her death.
“Unfortunately, there’s been a lot of media attention towards my motion due to Amanda Todd’s passing,” Morin said Sunday.
Morin’s motion, M-385, calls for the creation of a special 12-member, all-party committee to develop a national bullying prevention strategy.
The committee would be tasked with studying the prevalence and impacts of different types of bullying, identifying and adopting a range of anti-bullying best practices, promoting and spreading information to Canadian families, and providing support for organizations that work with young people “to promote positive and safe environments,” according to the motion.
But Allan Hubley, an Ottawa City Councillor who lost his own bullied son to suicide last year, says more study is not what’s needed right now.
“There is a time for action now instead of another study or anything like that,” Hubley told CTVs Question Period.
“The front line resources that will help these kids when they need it most, that moment when they’re about to make that decision, they are under-funded. That is where we need to put our energy and our efforts.”
Morin said he agreed with Hubley but that the first step must be to establish a broad view of the current situation.
Todd’s death has elicited reactions from other MPs. On Sunday, interim Liberal leader Bob Rae said on Twitter that he would be thinking of Todd “and so many others” when he spoke to a convention on suicide prevention in Niagara Falls, Ont.
And Kerry-Lynne Findlay, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice, said Saturday that her own teenage daughter has received death threats from other girls over a social networking site.
“We all recognize bullying is a tragedy. It shouldn’t be and doesn’t have to be a part of growing up. It’s not a right of passage,” she told CBC’s The House.
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A teenager posted a heartbreaking video on YouTube chronicling years of bullying in school and online, cutting and humiliation up until she died this week.
Amanda Todd, 15, posted the video called "My story: Struggling, bullying, suicide, self harm" on Sept. 7 and was found dead in her home town of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, just over a month later.
"Hello, I've decided to tell you about my never ending story," the black and white video begins. Todd can only be seen from her nose down for most of the video, occasionally moving around so that her face is visible. She silently tells her story through a series of white cards with black marker writing on them.
She describes using webcam chats to meet and talk to new people online as a seventh grade student. She said that people told her she was "stunning, beautiful, perfect" and a man pressured her to flash her chest. One year later, she did.
Todd received a Facebook message from a man she did not know saying that if she did not "put on a show" for him, he would send the photo of her chest to everyone. Over Christmas break, Todd said police came to her house at 4 a.m. to tell her that the photo had been sent to everyone.
"I then got really sick and got anxiety, major depression and panic disorders," she wrote. "I then moved and got into drugs and alcohol."
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A year after moving, Todd said things were going better until the man on Facebook came back and used the photo of her chest as his profile picture. Todd said she "cried every night, lost all my friends and respect people had for me again."
"I can never get that photo back," she wrote. "It's out there forever."
She described being called names, eating lunch alone and resorting to cutting herself. She also told the story of an incident where she made a "huge mistake" and "hooked up" with a boy at her school who had a girlfriend, but who she believed really liked her.
A week later, she said she received a text message telling her to get out of school and then a group of students, led by the boy's girlfriend, surrounded her at school and said, "Look around, nobody likes you."
"A guy then yelled, 'Just punch her already,' so [the girlfriend] did," Todd wrote. "She threw me to the ground and punched me several times. Kids filmed it. I was all alone and left on the ground."
Todd said she "wanted to die so bad" when her dad found her in a ditch. She drank bleach when she went home and had to be rushed to the hospital to have her stomach pumped, she said.
"After I got home, all I saw was on Facebook--'She deserved it. Did you wash the mud out of your hair? I hope she's dead,'" she wrote.
Todd moved to another school in another city, but said the torture followed her through Facebook. Students posted photos of ditches and suggested she try another bleach.
"Every day, I think, why am I still here?" she asked towards the end of the video. "I'm stuck. What's left of me now? Nothing stops. I have nobody. I need someone. My name is Amanda Todd."
Authorities were called to a residence in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, just before 6 p.m. on Oct. 10 to investigate the sudden death of the tormented teenager.
While authorities have not officially called the death a suicide, Cpl. Jamie Chung of the Coquitlam Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement, "At this time it has been determined that the teen's death was not suspicious in nature and that foul play was not a factor."
The coroner is investigating the death, police said.
A teenager posted a heartbreaking video on YouTube chronicling years of bullying in school and online, cutting and humiliation up until she died this week.
Amanda Todd, 15, posted the video called "My story: Struggling, bullying, suicide, self harm" on Sept. 7 and was found dead in her home town of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, just over a month later.
"Hello, I've decided to tell you about my never ending story," the black and white video begins. Todd can only be seen from her nose down for most of the video, occasionally moving around so that her face is visible. She silently tells her story through a series of white cards with black marker writing on them.
She describes using webcam chats to meet and talk to new people online as a seventh grade student. She said that people told her she was "stunning, beautiful, perfect" and a man pressured her to flash her chest. One year later, she did.
Todd received a Facebook message from a man she did not know saying that if she did not "put on a show" for him, he would send the photo of her chest to everyone. Over Christmas break, Todd said police came to her house at 4 a.m. to tell her that the photo had been sent to everyone.
"I then got really sick and got anxiety, major depression and panic disorders," she wrote. "I then moved and got into drugs and alcohol."
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A year after moving, Todd said things were going better until the man on Facebook came back and used the photo of her chest as his profile picture. Todd said she "cried every night, lost all my friends and respect people had for me again."
"I can never get that photo back," she wrote. "It's out there forever."
She described being called names, eating lunch alone and resorting to cutting herself. She also told the story of an incident where she made a "huge mistake" and "hooked up" with a boy at her school who had a girlfriend, but who she believed really liked her.
A week later, she said she received a text message telling her to get out of school and then a group of students, led by the boy's girlfriend, surrounded her at school and said, "Look around, nobody likes you."
"A guy then yelled, 'Just punch her already,' so [the girlfriend] did," Todd wrote. "She threw me to the ground and punched me several times. Kids filmed it. I was all alone and left on the ground."
Todd said she "wanted to die so bad" when her dad found her in a ditch. She drank bleach when she went home and had to be rushed to the hospital to have her stomach pumped, she said.
"After I got home, all I saw was on Facebook--'She deserved it. Did you wash the mud out of your hair? I hope she's dead,'" she wrote.
Todd moved to another school in another city, but said the torture followed her through Facebook. Students posted photos of ditches and suggested she try another bleach.
"Every day, I think, why am I still here?" she asked towards the end of the video. "I'm stuck. What's left of me now? Nothing stops. I have nobody. I need someone. My name is Amanda Todd."
Authorities were called to a residence in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, just before 6 p.m. on Oct. 10 to investigate the sudden death of the tormented teenager.
While authorities have not officially called the death a suicide, Cpl. Jamie Chung of the Coquitlam Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement, "At this time it has been determined that the teen's death was not suspicious in nature and that foul play was not a factor."
The coroner is investigating the death, police said.
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Seems like the 'truth' will be hard to decipher. The internet is blowing up over this mess. Shit's crazy. Some sources say she was a drug addict and drinking, some say she was have sexing with men on webcam for groups of people, some say she was mercilessly pursued by some troll, etcetera.
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