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The Red Hood Project is a movement for consumer protection for children online and was founded following the death of Amanda Todd. The Project is bringing to light the dozens of media reports documenting “the increasing victimization of children by blackmail, rape, abduction and even murder.” All because the industry that allows children to

I spent most of the last day staring at my laptop screen wondering how I was going to write about this. I think this is revision number five. It’s hard to believe I have to write this at all to be honest and no matter how I tried the words just failed me. I’d

During our meeting on Tuesday with Prime Minister Harper he mentioned his wife Laureens work with Need Help Now. The web site offers tips and resources for combating online exploitation. “You never want to put anything down that can hurt you but they do because they’re kids and it happens,” Harper said in an

When I was younger and heading downtown to the pubs was a weekly ritual there were much the same problems as there are today: drunks and fights. Halifax is a Navy town with five universities all close to the downtown core. I’ve been in one or two fisticuffs myself but can say I’ve never

As of this writing the most popular Facebook photo of all time has 3,839,534 likes. It’s a simple, touching photo, posted to United States President Obama’s official Facebook fan page soon after his Electoral College victory became apparent around 11 p.m., features the president embracing his wife, Michelle. The caption accompanying the photo reads

It’s been quite a week for those amongst us who thrive dwelling in the Internets toiletbowl. A week that saw trolls outed, bullies identified and arrested, and pedophiles busted. All this comes in the wake of anger over the suicide of bullied and tormented teenager Amanda Todd. It should, but doubtfully will, give second

A little disconcerning given it looked like it came from me. That plus two people sending me texts wondering who I was. I called Bell Canada to confirm I just didn’t send two hundred people a spam message and the only texts I’ve sent in the last couple days were to family. Makes you

An incredible helmet cam video showing first hand a soldier in a fire fight has gone viral on YouTube. According to the statement on the YouTube Channel “no rounds penetrated his body armor, and he made it home with no permanent injuries. This happened in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.” With the development of smaller and

notfound.org has come up with a way to turn your 404 errors into a wonderful tool to help find missing children. You just need to install a few lines of code into your 404 template and save it. For every error on your site visitors go to they can see a missing child poster.

When Gil-Scott Heron wrote that “The revolution will not be televised” he was right. Instead, it will be youtubed, it will be statused, and it will be retweeted. Social networking sites reach more than 82% of the global population: 1.2 billion people. And governments are afraid. Today, a handful of users on Facebook, Twitter,