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A Very Cool Canadian Website

Startup Canada is a national, grassroots, volunteer-led movement to enhance the nation's competitiveness and prosperity through uniting and strengthening entrepreneurship ecosystem and promoting a vibrant entrepreneurial culture to create unified brand as a rallying point for Canadians.
Visit the site.

New UK Resources to Support Suicide Prevention

A training program to support suicide prevention, "Youth self-harm and suicide awareness", has also been recently launched in the UK.  It seeks to increase participants knowledge and understanding about youth suicide and to look at developing youth suicide prevention guidelines and support within local areas and organizations.
Learn More.

Russell Brand At His Nuttiest and His Best!

The controversial comedian-turned actor has been making headlines this week after an interesting interview with the BBC's Jeremy Paxman about starting the revolution.  Paxman made the mistake of assuming that just because Brand doesn't vote, he doesn't understand what's going on, and boy did Russell have a good time proving him wrong!  If you get a chance to read the fascination Brand article in the New Statesman and see how his argument appeals to young people.

Halloween Treats Gone Wrong

With Halloween just around the spooky, poorly lit corner, Crest decided to play a little trick on the littlest Halloweeners by switching their candy with terrible tasting "veggie-flavored treats."  Funny!


UK Report Into Cyberbullying Calls for Immediate Action From Social Media Sites

The British youth anti-bullying charity Ditch the Label has recently released the results of its Annual Cyberbullying Survey, and says that there is still a long way to go to eliminate bullying in the cyber world.
An easy to read report.

Canada Could Use a Resource Like This One!

For an American view of the youth sector, it is worth looking at the National Clearinghouse on Family & Youth website, which is a service provided by the US Family and Youth Services Bureau within the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Website Here.



Two Very Cool Dudes

Malcolm Brickhouse and Jarad Dawkins are middle school students and metal heads with ambition.
Watch Them Rock!