Kaitlynn Mendes, an associate professor at the University of Western Ontario, said during an Ontario Medical Association press conference that many parents may not be aware of their children's increased exposure to online harassment during the pandemic, which is now having damaging consequences.
"This was likely due to things like the lack of eye contact, facial expression, human touch, and even voice intonations. These are really important cues that are missing from online interaction and this makes empathizing hard, but it means that harassment and abuse actually become much easier," she added.
In that study, 96 per cent of British youth between the ages of 13 to 18, teachers and parents said they used more social media during the pandemic. She told reporters she expects similar findings in the Canadian study she is conducting. "We were also looking at harms based on sexuality. So we had lots of young people report how they were outed during COVID," she said.
Yes, blame everything on pandemic It's the school system and TV propaganda that destroy our future
It made lots of people meaner
Bullies like our government.. very progressive.. let's start a war...
Liberal policies taught them to hate.
I can't imagine why?
Sociologist says LOCKDOWNS definitely made Canadian youth less empathetic, meaner. fixed.
You mean forcing a vaccine and lockdown for no reason has effected a whole generation im stunned….legacy media is 100% culpable for this
The pandemic did that hmmmm?
Fuh Q. ClownMedia
The answer….
And experts say the pandemic made CTV journalist more pathetic and less racist…
Why do you repost every story multiple times ?
Confinement, irrational fear mongering, threats of forced medical intervention and a steady diet of self entitled leftism online will do that.
I think what the person is holding in their hands in the picture is the cause, not the pandemic.
Was it caused by the pandemic or the gross, divisive rhetoric from our politicians and the media?
You guys at CTV are the new CBC. Yes you got the part about youth being isolated without social contact being a contributing factor of less empathy but you didn't have the kahunas to point the finger at government for locking down healthy young people. You're part of the problem.
And who fed their heads on that “pandemic” 🤔
The pandemic didn't do anything. If kids have become meaner and less empathetic, it's because they've learned from watching the incessantly appalling behaviour of their elders.
They have a right to be.
Its called being woke.
You mean the moronic overreaction to a bad cold cheered on by CTV may have caused that right.
Youth? Heck I’m in my 30s and own 17 houses. I made myself poor on paper, stopped paying taxes. Won’t rent to anyone vaxxed or complied with lockdowns. I don’t give a damn about this segregationist society at all now. Stopped lending $ to anyone/private mortgages for vaxxers
you mean the 'Plandemic'?
The government demolishing any chance of a stable future will do that
Conservatives and the media are to blame.
It wasn't the pandemic it was governments response to the pandemic.
I hope they will be mean to their government
They’re watching adults play callous games with their health, the planet burn, and everything become unaffordable
thank God, we can use that when civil unrest escalates this year and next against the WEF gang
If you think Pandemic has made youth meaner and less empathetic wait till you see how UNVACCINATED FEEL
CTV should leave twitter too.....really
No. It was our response that has done this.
Sociologist says Government response to a 2019 Coronavirus strain may have made Canadian youth less empathetic, meaner.
Try that shit again and things will not be peaceful
Everyone has become meaner and more divided. Look how our politicians act, great role models on how to bully and lie. You reap what you sow.
Yeah no shit
The insane, unwarranted and unscientific lockdowns did that. We will NEVER listen to government, MSM or medical 'experts' again.
Would isolating them away from their friends and family do that? What about closing parks? Or maybe they're eating less because their parents can't afford to provide a decent diet?
Sociologist says CTV is pathetic twaddle.
They’re just following the example set by the politicians, bureaucrats, journalists... etc that make up Canada. If anyone thinks this is anything but intentional, they are sorely mistaken. The agenda currently being imposed on the population required people to turn on each other.
Government policies did that. Kids didn’t care about the fake pandemic but they did notice how screwed up our society is.
Perhaps locking everyone up and removing freedoms had something to with it?
Just youth? Being fooled by the covid scam made everyone angry and broken
Yes.
'pandemic' = the government's totalitarian policies.
They have been coerced into taking an experimental shot,that does more harm than good.I would be pissed as well.
No, the government did that all on their own, and you, the MSM, abetted.
Well let's say that with your fake news CTV have created that society
if you say so. Just like the unempathetic and mean attacks launched on the truckers and the other enemies of the state at the behest of their Liberal and NDP masters?
You think maybe the media and our pm pushing hateful rhetoric had something to do with it?
Canadian adults certainly have become less empathetic, meaner (and selfish). Youth are doing far better, imo, esp given they were mass infected without consent and will inherit the disaster their elders have created, smh.
Good!
Nope. Its the cost of everything killing the average families budgets, parents are mad/angry, in turn the kids are mad/angry. Am I right?
I would be pissed to. You shut them out of life for almost two years.
Don't think you're going to sit next to unvaccinated people and put them at risk! -Justin Trudeau 2021 taxpayerDOTcom CFIB
I guess this was helpful 👇
It's almost as if locking down kids and teenagers with raging hormones for 2 years with nothing but the internet for 18 hours a day was a bad idea eh?
Yesterday’s conspiracy……..
No, the pandemic did not. It was the government and media that made Canadian youth less empathetic, meaner.
Maybe 3 yrs of gaslighting them into thinking their very existence was a risk to grandma and society at large had something to do with it? Or was it depriving them of a social life? Truly well done msm and public health. You could not have done a worse job.
Instead of helping the media continues to throw gas on the fire 🔥
Well, there is that little tiny thing that the Prime Minister has been intentionally doing since the beginning to divide and create a cauldron of hatred between the left and the right, inorder to force his globalist World Economic Fraud agenda. 🤡 🌎
No shit. Government propaganda programed them to deapise their fellow citizens for not getting an experimental injection or refusing to put a cloth on their face and follow arrows on the floor. It's disgusting
I think it was the lockdowns that did this. Forcing vaccines Forcing masks. How could a pandemic in itself to this?
If you destroy a young person’s social structure,you destroy the young person’s psyche. There it’s been said.
ALL BY DESIGN!! WAKE-UP, PEOPLE!
I’m surprised lord Elon had not labeled fake news ctv correctly yet elonmusk
I wonder if this was caused by the media encouraging Canadians to despise their fellow citizens.
Hmm I wonder why... maybe something to do with forced masking and vaccinations which were deemed as 'safe' causing issues and making people feel WORSE (myself included), normalizing sudden deaths and the truth of it's origins being hidden and lied about. HMMM.... CTV News 👎
No shit... msm spewed fear, division and hate daily,as did the PM and his cabinet
The sociologist misspelled 'lockdowns'.
Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 suggest the virus was manmade, including the presence of a furin cleavage site at the same location that was proposed in a grant proposal by EcoHealth Alliance, the report concludes. EcoHealth funneled U.S. taxpayer money to scientists in Wuhan.
You don’t say!?! What a shocker. Maybe was it the media and politicians telling people to shun their loved ones and stay away from everybody like theyre a disease? Naw. Couldn’t be that.
pot calls kettle black.....then calls it racist
The government and media started it.
You don't say 😂
The corrupt authoritarian Trudeau regime did that
Not just youth.
Maybe this country needs to get a bit more mean. What do you think, CTV?
That was the point of the plandemic. Agenda2030
The pandemic revealed that at least 75pct of people harbour authoritarian tendencies (with a greater proportion seemingly willing to comply and obey the authoritarians). Canada was leading the pack
You mean the Canadian governments reaction to the pandemic made youth less empathetic and meaner.
No, I believe that was CTV News and the rest of the propaganda team promoting pedophilia. Just sayin 🤷
It made adults mean.
No the government of Canada did that by modeling hate and divisiveness and YOU the media fanned the flames.
Well they had a great role model.
Let’s blame everything on pandemic for the next 50 years
Or maybe it was the government closure of schools, playgrounds, sports teams. Or maybe the constant fear mongering in the media? Their young lives were devastated and people seem shocked that young kids were affected by the insanity that was pushed on them.
When you force children to have no social interaction what do you expect?
Imagine your government trampling over the charter of rights and freedoms you just spent your education learning about. cdnpoli
Always blaming the youth. You want to see people without empathy - look at a CPC voter
Couldn't be about the total erasure of Women and girls? The permissions given to males to colonize us? The homophobia that transes the gay away? The utter gutting of any and all non addictions related mental health care? Nope, must be JUST the pandemic.
Made politicians meaner too. Maybe they are following suit
Our government encouraged a lack of empathy. It was disgusting. We won’t forget it.
When government spends a couple of years fucking every aspect of your life, you might be a little bitter. No one defended their rights.
If he means tougher, about time.
Hard not to feel apathetic with the government we have.
Pandemic? No. The government? Yes.
I’m sure calling people names during the whole thing helped
Not so much the pandemic but the lockdowns and school closures and vax mandates preventing them from being kids.
FakeNewsMedia like would be a contributing driver of this.
Shame on you for what you have done to our children with your propaganda LeaveOurKidsAlone
Gov initiated it, adults drank the cool-aid…kids watched and learned
so not using 'expert' anymore. People aren't falling for your lies?
« Sociologist says government may have made Canadian youth less empathetic, meaner . » fixed it. You’re welcome.
Your propaganda you mean?
The pandemic did none of those things. The government and government funded media caused those things.
That's society in general, and it started way before the pandemic.
It wasn't the pandemic. It was the pandemic response and coverage of it.
Children learn from there surroundings.
I’m a sociologist and I call b.s. on this! Its a gross oversimplification of how attitudes develop and are self reinforcing.
Just the youth? Seems everyone’s here these days:
Gee wonder why? Could it be because we lived under authoritarianism and people were forced to mask, stay at home and coerced into taking a medication by our government? Then neighbours were snitching on neighbours..?
Or maybe the lying, corruption, betrayal and abandonment from the people they were taught to trust including government, scientists, police,doctors, teachers.
You don't say? I wonder why?
It was the media that turned this into a problem not the plandemic itself
Trudic divided us so badly it has serious after effects....what a Tru dic
My son is just as kind as ever. But I didn’t force mask and jab him. And I’ve raised him to have a healthy distrust of the government. So we’re all good over here, thanks.
Just youth?
Maybe because of the media vilifying anyone who questions the narrative.
Blame the government for locking them down and telling them to wear masks, get 5 shots of an ineffective vax but successful genetic altering solution.
The youth were abused by their government what do you expect?
Medical tyranny will do that. You ain't fooling anyone CTV. NoAmnesty
I think these people need to ask for a refund on their education.
Toughen them up
Not my homeschooled kids. They are better than ever.
The 'pandemic' or the govt. response to it? Funny how often so called 'media' make that mistake.
Why, oh why is there so much hate in Canada? How could this have happened?
What do you expect when your lock in your home for 2 years .. this was like jail for majority of us
Kids learn what they live. Adults yelling at people in stores, disowning family members. Our pm creating division and encouraging hate to the unjabbed. Kids being kept from friends, playgrounds, sports. Parents pushing fear on them. Taking away all their normal.
No mass immigration did that, can you imagine your schools being invaded and taken over.
It was the jab
Many researchers are saying that the spike proteins cross the blood brain barrier. This and the gene-editing could cause 'brain fog' and other psychological changes.
Pandemic restrictions and then treatment towards people that didn't want a vaccine. Being treated like 2nd class citizen.
Exposure to Totalitarian Socialist Governements and their shill media did that....
'We must prepare for an angrier world' -Klaus Schwab
Woke covidians did
Who would have thought that lockdowns and social distancing would have had a negative effect on people 🤷♂️
Experts says pandemic may have made Canadian media less empathetic, meaner. Which had the same effect on everyone who listened to the propaganda.
The response to the 'pandemic' caused this, the politicians, bureaucrats and mainstream media are responsible for this and every other catastrophic measure and result: lockdowns and attendant isolation, child abuse trapped at home, the works.
when a whole generation of youth gives up in person school, jobs, sports, socializing etc to save granny, and then gets nothing but lambasted for “not doing enough” (especially those smart pure bloods) why would you expect empathy from them ? Not even a thanks did they get!
I know. My unvaccinated teenager heard some very mean things from his classmates. At some point I was concerned about sending him to school. The MSM should think about they world they are helping to create, eventually it will affect them too…
Maybe they learned it from a government that forced them to get a vaccine that they didn’t need?
No the government did
learned behaviors.
When the youth gets repeatedly infected with Covid and watch the adults get increasingly disabled because no one cares and the government does the ostrich, you bet they get meaner. Seeing maskless fake smiles won't solve the issue.
Sure, 'the pandemic' itself was to blame. Nothing could have been done to avoid this outcome.
I have no respect for Propaganda Fake News MSM who are spreading the government narrative, propaganda, etc! I have no respect for the imb*c*les who veneered their god Vaxxx during the PLAdemic! You threated, intimidated, segregation, coercicion, manipulate, calling people name..
Trumpism is making kids less empathetic and meaner.
Scam-demic ...
it's because life has no value anymore...
I am surprised that CTV is still on Twitter after the whole CBC temper tantrum earlier this week. I assumed that all of Canada's mainstream media networks (since you all have the same ideological positions) would have walked off Twitter together in solidarity with CBC
The pandemic didn't do anything. The over reaction and unnecessary restrictions caused irreparable harm , and those responsible will never be held accountable Canadians should be ashamed and forever owe the youth for what they were put through.
This is the end result from Lockdowns, school closures, mandates and CONSTANT demonization of unvaxd loved ones. McMasters & children’s hospital foundation put out alarming reports on the state of children’s mental health due to the pandemic in 2021 - which was ignored by PH
Thank you Justin Trudeau!
Well the Trudeau government has spent the last couple years using his presstitutes at and CBCNews to create fear and division throughout the country.
The “pandemic” didn’t. The criminal “leaders” created this. We warned you ALL and here comes the truth. Jail time for media, journalists and politicians, ASAP.
“The pandemic” lol. I wonder what aspects of “the pandemic” did this?
I blame the parents
You don’t say, could not have anything to do with the othering of the unvaccinated by all levels of government could it?
Duh you basically othered anyone who wasn't a government pin cushion
This is exactly what the propaganda from the government, the media and the health care system aimed to do. Congratulations on succeeding.
It wasn't the 'pandemic' ....the MEDIA spread hate and lowered empathy.
I’m a hell of a lot less empathetic and I’m in my 30s. I own 17 houses and won’t even rent to a vaccinated person. I made myself poor on paper so I stopped contributing taxes. Segregation and junk science will do that to a person. Enjoy the heart problems 👋 ❤️
😐 the Left did that ~by vilifying critics with labels and slurs
No they were always mean, they are just not being as passive aggrieve anymore.
Lets blame everything on the pandemic, enough already, how about its the lack of parenting and accountability for actions, god forbid people look in the mirror and say i think we messed up,
Wow... what a surprise. Restrict social interaction and suffer the consequences.
Is anyone surprised with the media and Trudeau leaving the charge against those that disagree with the narrative?
You mean the adults did this to them.
It's impossible to unsee how people can be turned against their own and all it takes is the right barrage of terrorizing propaganda. Really takes the shine off of the concept of 'empathy'.
we sacrificed them and their future to “save” the old boomers…why are we surprised?
Sociologist says pandemic lockdown and masking measures may have made Canadian youth less empathetic, meaner Remember those folks who were raising the red flag about the damage we're doing to youth? The same ones that were vilified and ostracized at the time? By CTV news?
Not the pandemic. It's the *response to the pandemic. Government failed, media failed. You're to blame.
You figure? Stabbings and statues being ripped down....
They lost 3 years of their prime youth to appease hypochondriac boomers. I'm mad about it too.
You don’t think 2.5 years of fear mongering, locking them in their homes, forcing them online all day and dividing their families and friends over coerced experimental vaccines had anything to do with it, do you? 🤔
The policy responses to the pandemic.. fixed it for ya.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh really
I can see it. They are more withdrawn. Not alot if companionship to boost moral. Sad time. 😔
because people were forced to get a scam jab and cover their faces perhaps