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Give a Little Love

Great song, great video and a wonderful message...Strongly recommended.

I Am Adam Lanza's Mother

Three days before 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother, then opened fire on a classroom full of Connecticut kindergarteners, my 13-year-old son Michael (names changed) missed his bus because he was wearing the wrong colour pants.  A poignant cry from a single mom.  More.

Senate Committee Calls For a National Strategy on Cyberbullying

Read it on Global News:  Gobal BC Senate committee calls for national strategy on cyberbullying.  A senate committee has released a set of recommendations for establishing a national strategy on cyberbullying, which follows some high-profile suicides of young people in recent years after enduring harassment over the internet.

Why Can't We Regulate Guns As Seriously As We Do Cars?

Children ages 5 to 14 in America are 13 times as likely to be murdered with guns as children in other industrialized countries and more Americans will die in gun homicides and suicides within six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.  Read more from Nicholas Kristof.

Keeping a Promise to Canada's Children

Despite this country's ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, well over a million Canadian children suffer from homelessness, hunger, poverty, unequal access to education and justice systems that do not recognize their special needs.  Read more from Kirsty Duncan  M.P.

Playing For Change

Connecting the world through music - check out the video... it's a foot tapper!

Adult Antidepressants Suspected in Suicides of Canadian Kids

Powerful antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs approved  only for use in adults are suspected of harming - in some cases killing - Canadian children. Though Health Canada and the drug makers acknowledge the drugs are not approved for use in anyone under 18, doctors - often general practitioners with little psychiatric training - are prescribing these medications with little oversight.  

A Girl's Right to Learn Without Fear

A new report published by child rights organization Plan Canada, in partnership with the International Human Rights Program, finds that school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) is a major factor threatening the education of children, especially young girls, in many countries of the world, including Canada.