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Study Identifies Mental Health as a Primary Concern for Canada's Youth

26 078 young Canadians aged 11 to 15 from 436 schools participated in this cycle of the survey, which focused on the mental health of Canadian school-aged adolescents.  This year the researchers also asked a number of Canadian youth to comment on the study findings.  These reflections have been incorporated into the final report.  

Canadian Foster Care in Crisis

Some children are placed in foster care without full safety checks while others wind up in supervised apartments or overcrowded homes, say child advocates who warn of a deepening crisis across the country. "There are problems when you hear people from the front line talking about the fact that we're placing kids in homes where the study hasn't been done," said Peter Dudding, executive director of the Child Welfare League of Canada.  "We've got kids being placed in homes where the home is over the allowable number of children.  This is just wrong and it's dangerous."


Mean Teens Online: Most Ignore Them or Defend Victim - Study

More than two-thirds of teens who use social networking sites say their peers are mostly kind to one another in the remarks they make on such sites.  But 88% say they have seen examples of mean and cruel behaviour to others, and 15% say they themselves have been the target of such behaviour.  Read More.  

New From Taking It Global: Youth Movements

Youth Movements - a new website launched by TIG to provide a common platform for youth to share, learn and amplify the role of young people in creating positive social change.  The site features a map to display events, organizations and projects across the global issues areas allowing young people to discover more about the opportunities to get involved in their own communities or about global developments across the issues that matter to them.

Canada: New Crime Bill May Violate Child Rights

Canadian child rights advocates are raising the alarm over the fact that Bill C-10 will increase mandatory minimum sentences, essentially evoking much harsher sentences on young offenders for relatively minor, non-violent offences.  Read More here.

Amateur Videos: Best of 2011 Compilation

A three minute time waster.

Seriously -- the Kid can Really Bang it out

17-year old Norwegian drummer Baard Kolstad amazes passersby on the streets of Oslo with his incredible display of musical prowess.



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