A photo of Miles Ambridge and his Grade 2 Classmates. Family handout"This looks really bad."

That's all it would have taken from one of the 25 people involved in an unfortunate British Columbia elementary school class photograph currently making the rounds online. One person to speak up and we would have avoided a shameful and embarrassing incident.

Considering 23 of those people were Grade 2 students and one of them was a professional photographer, it is pretty clear where the blame lay.

The photo in question shows an adorable class from Herbert Spencer Elementary School in New Westminster, B.C., lined up in their Sunday best. Three rows of students and one teacher are gathered on tiered benches. Several feet away sits the wheelchair-bound Miles Ambridge, seemingly segregated from the rest of his classmates.

Heartbreakingly, Miles appears to be urging his body closer to the group, perhaps in an attempt to be included in the photo.

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A couple in Point Edward, Ontario is feeling haunted after finding the skeleton of an aboriginal woman who lived more than 400 years ago.

The haunting is less supernatural than financial; the province has handed the couple a $5,000 bill to cover the costs of excavation and assessing the bones, according to the Toronto Star. Property owner Nicole Sauve told the media she and her husband were digging to build a fence when they found a woman's skeleton.

They called the police and an investigation found she was an aboriginal woman, likely in her 20s, who probably lived around the early 1600s, according to the Sarnia Observer. She was reburied in Aamjiwnaang First Nation's cemetery.

But Sauve was more surprised to find that she had unearthed a mess of legal headaches along with this piece of Ontario's cultural history.

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"I was very angry. I'm still very angry," Sauve told CBC's Ontario Morning.

Under Ontario law, property owners are

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Japanese tourists pause to take pictures as they visit Parliament Hill in Ottawa.Great news for anyone visiting Parliament Hill this summer – the Canadian government will provide you with your own personal propagandist.

The Canadian Press reports that summer tour guides are being been trained to "praise the Senate and disdain democracies with three or more political parties."

An eyebrow-raising manual obtained through an Access to Information Act request (because nothing is easy when it comes to government transparency) outlines the values of "Canada's second – not secondary – chamber" as more cost effective than the House of Commons and more efficient in holding the government to account.

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The manual goes on to say that the tour guides, most of whom are university students, should make Canadians aware of the Senate's many achievements while avoiding controversial debates.

It also describes two-party systems (such as the U.S.'s Democrats and Republicans) as having more moderation

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Quebec's government is calling for Montreal's interim mayor to step down after he was arrested and charged in connection to a massive corruption investigation.

Michael Applebaum was arrested and charged in connection with improper dealings between public officials and members of Quebec’s construction industry. He faces 14 charges including fraud, breach of trust, conspiracy and municipal corruption.

Jean-François Lisée, Quebec's minister responsible for Montreal, said after Applebaum was charged that he should step down and allow council to select an interim mayor.

There is some sense to that. After all, Applebaum was named interim mayor last November after his predecessor stepped down amid the early stages of corruption allegations.

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Saturday marks the second anniversary of Vancouver's Stanley Cup riot, when thousands of drunken sore losers rampaged through the city's downtown after the Canucks dropped Game 7 to the Boston Bruins.

British Columbia's government auto insurer (ICBC) is marking the occasion with a massive lawsuit against 46 people who they finger for trashing dozens of vehicles.

"ICBC has a responsibility to protect our customers’ premium dollars and is taking legal action to recover the costs of these acts of vandalism to ensure they are not passed on to our customers," spokesman Adam Grossman said in a news release Friday.

In its statement of claim, ICBC says it paid out more than $500,000 for damage to 77 vehicles, several of which had to be written off. The rioters were quite egalitarian, smashing and torching everything from plebian Hyundais and Mazdas to luxury BMWs and Audis, up to a 2006 Bentley Continental that sustained more than $60,000 in damage.

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Aneel Samra is a Sikh who can't currently play games in Quebec because he wears a turban.It was expected that Quebec Soccer Federation’s confounding ban on turbans in soccer would end with an apology. But did anyone expect a sincere apology?

One day after the sport’s international body sided against Quebec’s decision to refuse entry into soccer leagues to anyone who wears a turban or other religious headgear, the Quebec Soccer Federation (QSF) announced that it would abandon its policy.

Brigitte Frot, director-general of the Quebec Soccer Federation told a press conference on Saturday that she was relieved the controversy could be put to rest and apologized for poorly communicating the reason for the ban.

“We needed instructions and clarifications from FIFA. We felt relieved with respect to safety in terms of the parameters of the wearing of these scarves. Therefore the ban on the wearing of turbans is lifted,” Frot said, through a CBC News translator.

“We were forced into a discussion on religious issues when we were only seeking information about an issue involving the

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A review into the death of Rehtaeh Parsons, a Nova Scotia teen who killed herself after being subjected to cyberbulling following a "traumatic" incident at a house party, makes more than a dozen recommendations on how the school board should change but doesn't really address the issue of Parsons herself.

The Halifax Regional School Board released its external review on Friday and, as promised, it did not dig into what caused the 17-year-old girl to take her own life. Her death was considered to be more of a MacGuffin - a plot point that spurred the board's desire for change.

Of the issue that preceded Rehtaeh's death, the report describes it as "something dramatic and traumatic."  At question was how the school board should have handled what followed.

"Rehtaeh was a young woman of great promise whose needs were not met. The tragedy of her death and the surrounding media attention were the catalysts for this review," the document reads.

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The path to controlling marijuana in Canada could soon lead the federal government through a jungle of potted plants tucked into basements, particularly in British Columbia.

New federal regulations announced this week are meant to better control medical production, stopping legal grow operations in private homes.

But according to reports, implementing the changes could mean dismantling an underground industry in B.C., whereby some legal growers are supporting their families selling weed on the streets.

Thirty minutes on Skype with a doctor launched a B.C. man's marijuana business that nets him about $120,000 a year, a licensed grower told the CBC.

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His basement full of marijuana plants is perfectly legal under the "Personal Use Production" licence the government issued him and thousands of other Canadians. But then, police say, many of these growers sell the drug to a middle man, who sells it to others illegally.

For

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