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Internet Porn - Sex, Lies and Social Media

If you're between 8 and 18, you spend more than 11 hours a day plugged into an electronic device.  The average teen now spends nearly every waking moment on a smart phone, or computer or watching TV.  This seismic shift in how kids spend their time is having a profound effect on the way they make friends, the way they date, and their introduction to the world of sex.
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Writer, Comic and Mental Health Activist Kevin Breel Speaks Up About Depression

Kevin Breel didn't look like a depressed kid: team captain, funny, smart and confident.  But he tells the story of the night he realized that - to save his own life - he needed to say four simple words.
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Tragic Causes of Youth Suicide More Complicated Than Cyberbullying

A report on child and teen suicides released this week by the B.C. Coroners Service makes it clear that there is no youth suicide epidemic and, when it comes to causes, bullying is low on the list.  The report looked at the 91 BC children between the ages of 10 and 18 who committed suicide between 2008 and 2012 out of a youth population estimated at 450 000.

The Young and the Jobless

In 2013, the unemployment rate for Ontario youth aged 15-24 fluctuated between 16% and 17.1%, trending above the Canadian range of 3.5% and 14.5% and placing Ontario as the worst province outside Atlantic Canada for high youth unemployment.  In some cities (Windsor, Brandford, Oshawa, London) the rate exceeded 20% on par with the European Union.
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LGBTQ and Suicide

Every year, an average of five hundred Canadian youth take their own life. What is unknown, however, is how many of these youth identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, Two Spirit or queer, or are struggling with questions about their sexual orientation or gender identity.  What is apparent today is that LGBTQ youth experience a high degree of vulnerability to suicidal ideation and behaviour, particularly in comparison to their non- LGBTQ peers: approximately half of LGBT youth have thoughts about suicide, and they are over four times more likely to attempt suicide than their non-LGBT peers.
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First Responder

Fireman Cory Kalanick makes quite the rescue in less than a minute and it's quite moving.
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