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Police Patrol Mobile Phones and Your Adolescent
By Cst. Sheryl Raymond
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obile phones can provide safety benefits for children and peace of mind for parents. They're useful, convenient communication tools that often come with features that children/adolescents find both fun and engaging. However, it's important to remember that mobile phones bring a set of unique risks that parents need to know about. The risks exist in the technology itself, the content it delivers and the instant contact it provides with others. This information is designed to help you and your child/teenager have a positive user experience with mobile technology. Consider having a discussion with your child/teenager about the following points regarding him/her using a cell phone: Create an agreement: An early discussion about how you want your child to use his/her cell phone may help you avoid any surprises when you receive the first bill. Camera/Video Capability: All cell phones now come equipped with built-in cameras (or video recorders). A significant issue among youth today deals with the exchange of nude imagery ("sexting"). Not only it is illegal to exchange nude pictures when you are under 18, it may also result in your child's image circulating on the Internet. Text/Photo/Video Messaging: Remind your child that it is not possible to withhold a cell phone number when sending text messages, photos or videos. Messages that are sent and received from a mobile phone can be traced. Talk to your adolescent about the following..... 1. Sharing too much information about yourself, too quickly, can come back to bite you. Things change and people change. Some people may misuse informa-
tion that is shared with them in confidence. Be careful of who you share your private information with. Trust is not a given, it needs to be earned. 2. In a healthy relationship, private information is treated with respect and trust. Those who really care about you don't take personal, private information you share with them in confidence, and tell or show others. Real friends don't use your personal information as gossip. If someone you thought was a friend doesn't keep your secrets, then they are not acting like a true friend. However, if your secrets involve things that may impact your safety, it's ok for real friends to take to safe adults about it. 3. In an unhealthy relationship, private information can be used to take advantage of you and to control you. Anyone who uses your trust and friendship to control you, (i.e. making you do something you do not feel comfortable doing or else they will tell people something you told them in confidence), is using you. Avoid these people. 4. Sexual activity with adults is illegal. People who are much older than you should not be paying attention to you in a sexual way. It's ILLEGAL. In Canada, anyone under the age of 16 years cannot consent to sexual activity with an adult five years or more older.
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9/11 a Dozen Years On
he infamous 9/11 tragedy is still very much with us and is threatening to complicate even more the recovery from the 2008 recession. It is all part of our close relationship with the United States, socially, economically and militarily. Canada probably exacerbated the outcome to ourselves by under appreciating how deeply the US government and citizenry were stunned by the fact that their self acclaimed greatest nation on earth could be penetrated by a small group
of rag-tag terrorists. The American responses both overseas and domestically were and are clearly over reactions. The result has increased their national debt as a result of military misadventures and protective regulations until they have repeatedly faced the embarrassment of default. Before 9/11 it didn’t matter whether the government was Republican or Democrat any problem was solved by throwing money at it. However, now they are down to raw ideology on every
issue which has made Congress near dysfunctional. Now the proposal before Congress is to sequester (ie: take money away) from every program by about 8%. This means that Canadian – US trade will be further slowed to the extent that we will have to replace the US by other trading nations. Most will recall that CUSTA followed by NAFTA increased our exports to the US to the point that Canada became the thirteenth largest world economy. That
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