Ottawa

Gay teen suicide: The suicide of a gay teenager who wrote of being bullied at school has shocked Canada and delivered a blow to the “It Gets Better” Internet campaign intended to support gay youths. Jamie Hubley, 15, had tried to start a Rainbow Club to promote gay acceptance at his high school but was harassed and insulted. “I don’t want to wait three more years, this hurts too much,” he wrote in his last blog post. “How do you even know it will get better?” Hubley’s father, an Ottawa city councilman, had transferred Jamie from a Catholic school, where he was the only out student, to public school, but the bullying persisted.

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