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Provides information on bullying, including how to prevent bullying and how to respond to and stop bullying.
Bullying is physically, mentally or emotionally abusing another person for personal satisfaction and to feel a sense of empowerment over another. It can be in a direct form, such as teasing or taunting, or an indirect form such as spreading rumours.
Source: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
A bully is someone who uses power and aggression with the aim of hurting another individual over and over. This aggression may be physical, verbal and/or psychological.
Source: Canadian Paediatric Society
Bullying needs to be dealt with directly. To stop hurtful behaviour, we all need to respond when it occurs and take steps to prevent it. The first step is recognizing when there is a problem. Here is some information to help you figure out whether a child you know has experienced, seen, heard or taken part in bullying behaviour. This information will also help you take steps to stop the bullying and help the child who is being bullied.
Source: Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada
Bullying needs to be dealt with directly. To stop hurtful behaviour we all need to respond when it occurs and take steps to prevent it. The first step is recognizing when there is a problem. Here is some information to help you figure out whether a teen you know has experienced, seen, heard or taken part in bullying. This information will also help you take steps to stop the bullying and help the teen who is being bullied.
Source: Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada
Lists and describes the different categories of bullying and discusses their consequences on the victim. Offers strategies including how to 'bully proof' oneself.
Source: Canadian Health Network
Emphasizes the importance of teaching children about bullying before they become adults who bully or victims of bullying. Lists the impacts of bullying on children and suggests tips that can be used when dealing with a situation that involves bullying. Includes links to related resources.
Source: Canadian Health Network
Ever been beaten up? Threatened? Ridiculed over and over? Ever watched on helplessly while someone was humiliated in front of you? Ever picked on a weaker person because it made you feel better about yourself? Most of us have either seen or experienced bullying.
Source: Canada Safety Council
S-Team Heroes is a fun website for kids that gives them the power to stop bullying. By playing an interactive online game with the S-Team Heroes, kids learn helpful tips for dealing with bullies.
Source: Government of Alberta
The purpose of this Website is to provide Canadian schools with a standard way to measure the prevalence of bullying, sexual harassment and racial discrimination; a common method of assessing who is involved, and where and when these problems take place; standards for quality programs; and a common set of tools to assess the impact of school-based programs.
Source: Canadian Public Health Association
Overweight and obese children are more vulnerable to bullying behaviour – both as victims and perpetrators – than healthy weight children, according to a new Canadian Population Health Initiative-funded study.
Source: Canadian Institute for Health Information
For related information on bullying, visit the Canadian Public Safety Portal.
Source: Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada
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