An American teen with cancer who dedicated his short life to music and charity died this week but the impact of his work is still blooming across the Internet as millions share his moving story.

Zach Sobiech was only 14 years old when doctors diagnosed him with a rare form of bone cancer known as Osteosarcoma, according to the Children's Cancer Research Fund. After years of treatment, the cancer spread and his doctors gave him only a little while longer to live.

So he wrote a song. And then another. Sobiech released two albums in what became his very public struggle with terminal illness. His single, Clouds, was fifth on the iTunes Charts on Wednesday and the video had more than four million views on YouTube.

The teen from Stillwater, Minn., died on May 20, at the age of 18.

The family requested donations to the Zach Sobiech Osteosarcoma Fund, which was created to fund research into this rare form of cancer.

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A group of prominent Canadians such as Margaret Atwood, Gordon Pinsent and Elizabeth May has called upon Prime Minister Stephen Harper to change the name of Victoria Day to "Victoria and First Peoples Day."

This group of well-known Canadian authors, actors and politicians is behind an online petition that seeks to rename the public holiday in order to honour the indigenous peoples of Canada along with the Crown.

"I know there is a great deal of monarchists in this country but I think also that there is also an awful lot of talk about how First Nations people, Inuit people, indigenous people in this country are being treated," actor Peter Keleghan shared with The Canadian Press.

Keleghan makes a decent point, so we took this to the street to see what Canadians think on the matter.

Here's what you said:

So, what do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments area below.

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Sharlene Bosma, the wife of a man who was killed after posting his truck for sale online, holds back tears at a news conference in Ancaster, Ont., Wednesday, May 15, 2013 as her father Louis Veenstra looks on. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dave Chidley

The sordid details of an investigation into the death of Tim Bosma will be set aside for one day on Wednesday as the public gathers to remember the Ontario man who was found dead after taking two men out on a test drive two weeks ago.

The one identified suspect in Bosma’s death remains behind bars and, as police dig into several investigations with possible connections, his lawyer is urging the public not to delve into speculation.

The investigation into suspect Dellen Millard will take a back seat on Wednesday to Timothy Bosma, the devoted family man who was killed after leaving home with two men more than two weeks ago.

A public funeral service is being held late Wednesday morning near the Ancaster, Ont., community where the 32-year-old Bosma and his wife Sharlene were building their life together.

The Hamilton Spectator reports the service will be held at a local banquet hall, where the Bosmas held their wedding only three years ago. Some 1,400 people were expected to attend the service

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An electron microscope view of the new deadly new coronavirus MERSWhile there's been plenty of information coming out of China over the past two months about the new H7N9 bird flu, with updates on infections, deaths and how it is transmitted, there's been surprisingly little said so far about another new virus that was discovered back in September, even though this new virus is apparently more easily transmitted between people and also, apparently, more deadly.

The discovery of Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), aka 'novel coronavirus 2012 (nCoV-2012)', was first announced last September, after two men — one from Saudi Arabia and one from Qatar — died from a SARS-like illness. Since then, a total of 43 confirmed cases have been reported, in eight countries, and 21 of those infected have died. This is compared to a total of 131 infected by H7N9 in just two countries (130 in China and 1 in Taiwan) with 36 dead. More alarming is the news that MERS can be transmitted directly, person-to-person, through close contact, whereas the infections of

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If Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's latest scandal – the one about him allegedly being videotaped smoking from a crack pipe – has any upside, perhaps it will be a boost in tourism.

The city is receiving a lot of attention from our neighbours to the south, with many U.S. late-night talk shows picking up the story and laughing about us. It. Sorry, laughing about it.

Political comedian Jon Stewart took the first swipe, launching into Ford's history of gaffes as part of a Tuesday night segment on bad mayors on the Daily Show, before burrowing into the crack allegations.

Stewart started the segment by pointing out several of Ford's recent "foibles," such as the time he tripped and fell while hamming it up with a football and the other time he walked face-first into a television camera.

He then pulled out the big guns, playing a clip of Ford's 2008 tirade about Orientals working "like dogs" and "slowly taking over" (but in a good way).

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Edmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel isn't as well known nationally as his Calgary counterpart Naheed Nenshi or, thank God, Toronto's Rob Ford, but he's being well remembered after announcing he's not running for re-election this fall.

Mandel, 67, said Tuesday that he won't seek a fourth term in October's municipal elections, the Edmonton Journal reported. He made the announcement with his wife, Lynn, at his side at the Art Gallery of Alberta, one of the projects he pushed to help revive the provincial capital's downtown core.

“There’s always more to do,” Mandel said. “Edmonton is a big, growing city.

“We’ve been very lucky to have a group of people passionate about this city, willing to move forward, take risks."

CBC News reported Mandel pointed to other tough challenges city council has faced during his tenure, such as homelessness and regional balance, as well as increasing residential density in core neighbourhoods, which made downtown revitalization even more important.

"We want our city not

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An enterprising Prince Edward Island man has decided to make some lemonade out of Mike Duffy's lemons.

Put more clearly, Llloyd Kerry has designed a new T-shirt — with the slogan 'Stuff the Duff' — inspired by fellow Islander Mike Duffy's recent troubles with regard to improperly-claimed living expenses and a $90,000 cash gift from the prime minister's chief of staff.

"I look at it as a funny way to protest," Kerry, a lab technician, told Yahoo! Canada News.

"People aren't going to march in Ottawa with picket signs saying dump Duffy. But this way they can voice their displeasure in a humourous way but still get the point across."

The T-shirts are $20 plus a couple of bucks postage depending on where you live. Shirts can be purchased via Kerry's Facebook page.

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This is Kerry's second venture in the apparel business.

Earlier this year, he designed shirts inspired by a This Hour has 22 minutes sketch about employment

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In the face-off between Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, you’ve got to give this one to the premier. The pair traded barbs on Tuesday over an abandoned and failed strategy to bring a casino to downtown Toronto. But while Ford snarked at her for allegedly changing her mind over how much she valued a gambling house in the core of Canada’s largest city, his attack was dampened a bit when he then scurried out of City Hall, so as not to be asked about pesky allegations that he was captured on video smoking from a crack pipe.

Wynne, who was just named Canada’s most popular premier in a poll published by the Toronto Sun, had plenty of space to respond with mild concern about the city’s dysfunctional leadership.

Let's take a quick look at what happened in Toronto today because, and this can't be stressed enough, the city's mayor was accused of being recorded smoking from a crack pipe five days ago and has yet to offer an official response – other than to vaguely dismiss

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