This story needs a little unravelling, or demystifying, since most reports tend to assume we know the background. What is interesting is how many intriguing aspects of the wider issue it raises. So. Where to begin… A 15-year-old girl from Halifax, Nova Scotia, discovered that someone had created a fake Facebook profile — complete with [...]

This will be the first in a series of posts about cyberbullying. Bullying is a genuine issue, although it could go by a number of other names, such as harassment, threatening behaviour and assault, to name just a few. And while there is evidence that cyberbullying is something distinct from — and perhaps worse than — [...]

Seems I wasn’t the only person who noticed some of the melodramatic handwringing that tends to accompany certain topics du jour. The Globe and Mail writer, Ivor Tossell, does a nice job linking the recent apocalyptic response to the outbreak of swine flu with our not-dissimilar reactions toward the “Craigslist moral panic”. Like me, Tossell speculates [...]