Reading Time: 3 minutes Get Going Minister! Morteza Momenzadeh Tameh was a member of a resistance group with links to terrorist groups in Iran in the 1980s. He was imprisoned by the Iranian government from 1982 to 1987. After his release he fled to Canada and requested permanent residency in 1994, after being found to be a UN Convention […]
Viewpoint 39-4: Ten Years – A Look Back At Bullying
Reading Time: 3 minutes What were you doing in 2005? I can easily recall what I was trying to accomplish. I was a grade 9 student at Bathurst High School at the time, trying to get the courage to do something that no one ever thought I would do – come forward as a sixteen-year-old teenager who endured years […]
Workplace Bullying: What Employers Need to Know
Reading Time: 5 minutes Bullying in the workplace is slightly different from bullying seen in the childhood sandbox. There is rarely physical violence or threats (although these are possible), and the tormentors may not always be the most obvious culprits. Instead, workplace bullying may not even be noticeable to an outsider unaware of the situation. Province by province, workplace […]
Unmasking Bullies on the Internet
Reading Time: 6 minutes Introduction Most of us have heard of cyberbullying and the dreadful impact it has had on young people, even driving some of them to suicide. The incidence of bullying online is likely far greater than the average Canadian might expect. As a university professor, I (Bowal) receive menacing and profane emails from anonymous former students […]
Legal Information and Resources on Bullying
Reading Time: 2 minutes In honour of Bullying Awareness Week (Nov 12 – 17, 2012) let’s look at some resources surrounding bullying. Bullying is an important topic to discuss in schools. The August/September 2002 issue of LawNow featured a lesson plan on bullying. It includes a case study, guidelines for a mock trial, and a role playing exercise. For […]
Bully Bosses: When Harassment is Not Discrimination
Reading Time: 3 minutes What legal remedies do employees have if they are verbally or non-verbally bullied by their supervisor or co-workers? In the workplace, bullying can include behaviours such as: damaging your reputation; humiliating you in public; accusing you of lack of effort; calling you names; insulting, teasing, or intimidating you; preventing your access to opportunities; isolating you […]
Today’s Trial: Only Two Friends Said No
Reading Time: 3 minutes “I wish to make some comments which do not form part of my Reasons for Judgment. I was dismayed, for many reasons, throughout this trial. I was dismayed by the rumours and innuendoes, and that so may people seem to have acted on them without even considering whether they were based on fact. I was […]
School’s In: Changing Faces to Learn About Bullying
Reading Time: 12 minutes Bullying — and its variations teasing, ostracizing, intimidating, assaulting — is a problem that has come out of its closet and into the courtrooms in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. But it isn’t new. Bullying is a time-honoured approach to life acted out everywhere from schoolyards to the killing fields of war, from […]
