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Weeks after posting haunting Youtube video on her years of torment at classmates’ hands, 15-year-old B.C. girl commits suicide
VANCOUVER — There was an outpouring of condolences following the suspected suicide of a British Columbia teenager who last month posted a gut-wrenching video to YouTube of her treatment at the hands of relentless bullies.
Coroner Barb McLintock said Thursday night that preliminary indications suggest Amanda Todd, 15, took her own life one day earlier.
Todd posted a haunting, black-and-white, nine-minute video on Sept. 7 in which she doesn’t speak, but holds up a series of white pieces of paper with brief sentences in black marker.
My life is ‘hell’: Robert Wilkinson, Bohemian Rhapsodist
On the night he wound up in a viral video that would eventually be viewed by millions, Robert Wilkinson says, he simply set out to join his friends for a drink in the pub of the local Best Western in Edson, Alta.
That November evening ended with a drunk driving charge and a passionate, near-perfect rendition of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody that has since garnered nearly seven million views on YouTube.
Mr. Wilkinson said in an interview Tuesday his life in his west-central Alberta hometown of fewer than 10,000 people has since become a “slow burning hell.”
“The ringing and all the messages on my iPad. I find it difficult to keep a battery charge on it,” he said. “I don’t know what I’m going to do now, end up in the gutter probably.”
What the #!%*? Was the TTC sex video a YouTube stunt?
An inebriated couple gets intimately acquainted on the subway — at 2:30 on a Sunday afternoon, no less — and all of a sudden it’s all Toronto can talk about. But questions remain. Jane Gerster provides the answers in this occasional feature, in which the National Post tells you everything you need to know about a complicated issue and suggest some more romantic subway stations.
Teens staging online predator stings dressed as Batman draw RCMP attention
Mounties are investigating three B.C. teenage boys who posed as underage girls online, lured men to meet them for sex then confronted the accused sexual predators dressed as superheroes.
The shenanigans were videotaped and posted in recent weeks on YouTube, under the title To Troll a Predator.
One video features what the boys describe as a 44-year-old male who was seeking to perform oral sex on a 15-year-old girl. The video shows screen grabs of the online chat, dated Nov. 5, and the agreement to meet at a Tim Hortons.
The video then cuts to footage of a man dressed as Batman, speaking in a Cookie Monster-esque voice, claiming to be with B.C.’s “Chilliwack Police Department.”
“We have caught you talking to a 15-year-old girl online,” the caped crusader says to the nervous-sounding man.
Harper plays music with 10-year-old YouTube star
Prime Minister Stephen Harper sat down at a piano Tuesday to play music with 10-year-old YouTube sensation Maria Aragon. She played Lady Gaga’s Born This Way. He played John Lennon’s Imagine. She stayed in tune. His was a fine effort, but then again, he’s got a day job on Parliament Hill.
Winnipeg girl to sing with Lady Gaga in Toronto
Maria Aragon, the 10-year-old Winnipeg girl who has become a YouTube sensation after covering a Lady Gaga song, will get a chance to share the stage with the eccentric superstar Thursday night. Aragon, who has made countless television and radio appearances since her piano-based rendition of Born This Way was posted online a few weeks ago, is expected to perform the song with Lady Gaga at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.
Photo: Ten year old Maria Aragon exits a limo and is greeted by her classmates at Isaac Brock School in Winnipeg, February 17, 2011 after she was interviewed and sang at a local radio station. (Wayne Glowacki/Winnipeg Free Press)
Prairie songbird, 10, given standing ovation on Ellen DeGeneres’s show
Child pop sensations set to surpass crude oil as Canada’s number one export
Winnipeg girl becomes an Internet star after getting Lady Gaga’s seal of approval
Social media networks like Twitter, YouTube and Tumblr have been some of the best ways to stay up to date with the events in Egypt. Here’s our quick guide to using these tools to keep up with developments in the Middle East.
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