Author Archives: Lina

Twitter to be more Pro-Active about Cyberbullying

Via Digital Spy Twitter announced today three important changes in their fight against cyberbullying: “Today, we’re announcing three changes: stopping the creation of new abusive accounts, bringing forward safer search results, and collapsing potentially abusive or low-quality Tweets. Stopping the creation of new abusive accounts: We’re taking steps to identify people who have been permanently

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Sexual Violence Policy: Carleton’s debate on the use of “Rape Culture”

Via The Ottawa Citizen The debate at Carleton highlights the importance of language when it comes to developing policy: “Under provincial law, all universities must produce a policy by next January. Many universities, including the University of Ottawa, have already finalized their policies. But at Carleton, the process has been tumultuous, and whether or not

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The Needs Assessment Findings Are Here!

Introducing the Needs Assessment: Purpose and Context Purpose This document serves to consolidate the results of our consultations with a broad segment of the Montreal Anglophone community which included: young people (mostly but not exclusively girls and women), college students and faculty, high school students, librarians, counselors, teachers, university students, school board personnel, the video

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Federal strategy will aim to fight cyber violence against women

Via  CBCNews “In the online context, I think the violence that is experienced is trivialized,” says Kendra Milne, director of law reform at the Vancouver-based West Coast Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF). “Some cases tend to turn into a bit of a subjective analysis about whether or not the women involved should have been reasonably fearful

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