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‘I wish I could be happy’ Glen Cairn teen takes his own life Kinburn woman asks city to stop the dumping of treated human waste.

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The night he took his own life, 15-year-old Jamie Hubley left a suicide note on his blog site. “Well I’m tired of life,” wrote Jamie. “It’s so hard, I’m sorry, I can’t take it anymore.” For the past month, the Glen Cairn teen posted a series of notes on the site describing his struggles being an openly gay teenager and dealing with a deepening depression. “I wish I could be happy, I try, I try I try,” he said in the blog. “I just want to feel special to someone.” Jamie said his final goodbyes to his parents and his close friends on the blog just hours before taking his own life on Saturday, Oct. 15. Jamie is the son of Kanata South Coun. Allan Hubley, and Wendy Barber and the brother of Christine Leigh and Joshua. “I don’t want my parents to think this is their fault either,” he wrote in the note. “I can’t stand school. I can’t stand earth. I can’t stand society; I can’t stand the scars on my arms. I can’t f…ing stand anything.” His death comes almost one year after the suicide of Daron Richardson, the 14-yearold daughter of Luke Richardson, an assistant coach of the Ottawa Senators, which focused national attention on the issue of youth suicide. On a memorial Facebook site, which has

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The death of a 15-year-old Glen Cairn boy, Jamie Hubley, has evoked an outpouring of grief and messages of condolence from students at A.Y. Jackson Secondary School. attracted hundreds of members, friends talked about Jamie’s great singing voice and posted videos of him performing covers of some of his favourite songs. Jamie came out openly as being gay this past year. “So I hit rock bottom a couple months ago. I’m stuck still,” he wrote. “My ‘friends’ don’t talk to me anymore and I lost another best friend to her boyfriend … I’m kind of stuck, I don’t know if I’m annoying, embarrassing or they just don’t like me.

“I hate being the only open gay guy in my school…I really want to end it.” Jamie’s blog is filled with images of selfmutilation – people with cut marks on their wrists and arms – photographs of men kissing and pictures of youth bullying youth. The photographs and videos are mixed with cries for help such as “Sometimes I wish the breeze would just take me with it,” and “I wish I wasn’t so sad.” JAMIE, see 2

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