CANADIAN funeral directors are planning a campaign to educate mourners that it may sometimes not be appropriate to take a selfie next to the body of a loved one.
Apparently the practice is a growing trend, with mourners hiding their phones until the last moment during a viewing, before snapping a pic and then posting it onto social media.
A spokesman told Radio Canada that while taking photos at a funeral may not be disrepectful, posting it onto Facebook "can be detrimental to the dignity of the family of the late loved one".
Also in Canada - we've heard of piles of gold, but this is ridiculous.
A former worker at the Royal Canadian Mint has been sentenced to more than two years in prison, after stealing gold coins by putting them up his backside.
35-year-old Leston Lawrence was sentenced this week after police tracked the sale of 17 of the precious items through Ottawa Gold Buyers.
The discovery of the $165,000 theft followed an investigation where officials found Vaseline and latex gloves in the man's locker.
These items "could have been used to facilitate insertion of gold items inside his rectum," reported the Toronto Star.
The gold coins weighed up to 264g each, with Lawrence using the proceeds to buy a boat and build a house in the Caribbean.
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