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BORDEN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-11-07 published
Died
This
Day -- James Alexander
LOUGHEED, 1925
Friday, November 7, 2003 - Page R13
Lawyer and politician born at Brampton, Canada West, in 1854
practised law in Toronto and Calgary; entered partnership with
R.B. BENNETT; 1889, named to Senate; 1906, made Conservative
leader; 1911, appointed to Privy Council; minister without portfolio
in BORDEN government; 1928, name given to mountain west of Calgary.
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BORECKY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-09 published
Bishop served Ukrainian Catholics
Priest confronted the Vatican over mandatory retirement and ordination
of married ministers
By Jordan HEATH-
RAWLINGS
Saturday,
August 9, 2003 - Page F10
Toronto -- Isidore
BORECKY, who served as Ukrainian Eparch for
Toronto and Eastern Canada for more than half a century, died
in his sleep on July 23 at Toronto Western Hospital after a long
illness. He was 92.
His death came mere hours before Reverend Stephen
CHMILAR was installed
as Ukrainian Catholic bishop of Toronto and Eastern Canada, the
post Father
BORECKY fought long and hard to keep.
Born in Ostrivets, Ukraine, on October 1, 1911, Father
BORECKY
dedicated more than 60 years of his life to the priesthood, and
spent his time fostering religious vocations, establishing lay
organizations, churches and senior citizens homes for Ukrainian
Catholics.
Father BORECKY,
Canada's last bishop ordained by Pope Pius Twelfth,
entered the priesthood in Munich in July of 1938. He then left
Germany for Canada in November of the same year.
From 1938 to 1941, he worked in several churches in Saskatchewan
and Manitoba. In 1941, he was appointed pastor at Saint John the
Baptist Church in Brantford, Ontario, where he would work for
seven years, serving his faithful as well as mission parishes
in nearby Grimsby, Niagara Falls, St. Catharines, Thorold and
Welland.
On March 3, 1948, Father
BORECKY was named by Pope Pius Twelfth to
the post of Apostolic Exarch of Eastern Canada. He was consecrated
in St. Michael's Cathedral on May 27, and began to organize the
new exarchate. During the next eight years, he would achieve
his most memorable goal, as the exarchate was raised to the status
of eparchy, or diocese, in 1956.
Some of Father
BORECKY's most notable work came in Toronto during
this period, when he oversaw the rise of many Catholic church
institutions -- he encouraged parishioners to erect St. Michael's
Roman Catholic Church -- and helped to integrate Eastern Rite
Catholic schools into the framework of what would eventually
become the Toronto Catholic District School Board.
On February 24, 1952, Father
BORECKY celebrated a divine liturgy
at St. Teresa's Church, and during the service he encouraged
the faithful to begin the construction of their own church building.
A church property was purchased for $1,500 and
on March 22, 1954,
Father BORECKY blessed it. Parishioners donated their time and
labour and
on September 6, 1954, the parish hall was opened.
The consecration of the church was celebrated on October 16,
1954, and Reverend
Walter
FIRMAN was appointed the first parish priest.
As leader of Canada's largest Ukrainian Catholic diocese, Father
BORECKY was very approachable, said Reverend Taras
DUSANOWSKYJ, who
is currently pastor at St. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic
Church in Toronto.
"He was very much oriented towards his people," he said. "He
was very welcoming, open and certainly ecumenical.
"He had a relationship with everyone. He knew all his clergy
by name, he knew a lot of the parishioners. He was a very warm
person."
He was also a man who stood devoutly for his eparchy's right
to practise the Eastern Rites.
Serving as bishop at a time after the Vatican decreed in 1929
that no married men could be ordained into the priesthood, he
would arrange for his priests who had wives or wished to marry
to be transported to Yugoslavia or Ukraine, where they could
be ordained in the traditional Eastern rites, which does not
require celibacy.
Father DUSANOWSKYJ, who is one of 40 married priests out of about
75 in the eparchy, said the Vatican did not take well to his
plans, but couldn't stop a man who was so strong-minded.
"Certainly there were times when he got his wrist slapped, or
he would be called in so they could complain," he said. "But
for the most part he simply ignored it because he knew that this
was part of our tradition, and without married clergy our eparchy
would have been in a tremendous shortage."
Father BORECKY kept the title of bishop until 1998, at the age
of 86, 11 years past his required retirement age, when he relinquished
it after five years of sparring with the Vatican over the naming
of bishop Roman
DANYLAK as apostolic administrator for the Toronto
eparchy.
Father BORECKY confronted the Vatican over the rule, which states
that bishops must retire at the age of 75. He contended that
the rule did not apply to him, as he was leader of an Eastern
Rite church.
One last accolade came in December of last year, when Ukrainian
President Leonid
KUCHMA gave him, along with Archbishop Vsevolod
MAJDANSKI of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the United States,
special commendation orders for service to Ukraine.
Father BORECKY's funeral was held on July 26 at the Ukrainian
Catholic Church of the Holy Dormition, his funeral mass led by
Ukraine's
Cardinal
Lubomyr
HUSAR, the Major Archbishop of Lviv
and spiritual leader to more than five million Ukrainian Catholics
worldwide. He has been buried in the family plot at Mount Peace
Cemetery.
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BORENSTEIN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-31 published
Slain man was central to case that altered confession rule
By Christie
BLATCHFORD,
Wednesday,
December 31, 2003 - Page A7
The late Kirk Alexander
SWEENEY, who was buried just this week,
may be best remembered by the general public as one of a number
of young black men gunned down over the Christmas holidays.
Toronto homicide detectives may think instead of how crude street
justice got Mr.
SWEENEY in the end: He was, they say, essentially
executed at the G-Spot nightclub in the early-morning hours of December 22.
The handsome 26-year-old allegedly had been a witness, four years
ago, to a double murder that took place at another crowded club.
But Mr. SWEENEY, like dozens and dozens of others who were within
an arm's length of the victims, refused to tell police what he
knew of the shooting of Godfrey (Junior)
DUNBAR and Richard
BROWN.
The result of their collective silence has been that those two
slayings remain unsolved, the killer or killers still at large.
And now, of course, the same hear-, see-, and speak-no-evil rule
appears to be applying to the investigation of Mr.
SWEENEY's
slaying. Detectives find few people who were within eyeshot, among the crowd of 150, willing to co-operate.
But Mr. SWEENEY made a rather more lasting contribution to Canadian
criminal law -- aside, that is, from compiling a not unimpressive
record of his own on various weapons-related offences.
In the fall of 2000, he was the person at the centre of an important
legal case, the outcome of which made it far more difficult for
police to get suspects to talk and virtually impossible for prosecutors
to take any resulting confessions to court if even a hint of a whiff of a threat had been used to obtain them.
The background goes like this.
On December 31, 1996, a taxi driver -- a hard-working new immigrant
picked up two men and drove them to a townhouse complex in Toronto.
One man, allegedly Mr.
SWEENEY, was in the front passenger seat,
the other in the rear. Once they reached their destination, the
man in the front switched off the ignition, while the rear passenger
purportedly put his arm around the driver's neck.
The man in the front then allegedly pointed a gun at the driver, threatened to kill him, and demanded his money.
As the driver was reaching to get it, he told police later, the man in the front pistol-whipped him about the head.
The two men fled with the money; the police were called, and
within an hour, a police dog was tracking a scent from the cab
to the rear entrance of the townhouse of Mr.
SWEENEY's family.
As Mr. SWEENEY left the home, he was arrested, along with another suspect.
Mr. SWEENEY subsequently made two statements to police.
One officer said if Mr.
SWEENEY could tell them where the gun
was, they would not have to execute a search warrant on his mother's home.
Mr. SWEENEY told the detective he had thrown the weapon out a window, but police still couldn't find it.
At Mr. SWEENEY's original trial, Judge David
HUMPHREY disallowed
the statement on the grounds that it was the product of "an inducement" by the detective.
But Mr. SWEENEY gave another statement.
A second officer said police had prepared a search warrant for
the house -- this was true -- and told Mr.
SWEENEY that officers
would "trash" the house, looking for the gun, if he didn't tell
them where it was. Mr.
SWEENEY apparently hesitated, and the
officer added, "Your mom is already upset. Just be a man and
make this easier for her." Mr.
SWEENEY told the officer the gun
was in a box in his mother's closet, and even drew a little diagram for him.
The police executed the warrant and, as sure as cats like litter,
found the gun, right where Mr.
SWEENEY said it was.
At trial, Judge
HUMPHREY concluded -- sensibly, I'd argue, to
the average Joe -- that this statement was also the result of
an inducement, and thus involuntary, but found it admissible
under what's called the St. Lawrence rule. That rule, taken from
an old case of the same name, held that even involuntary statements
are admissible if they are reliable -- if, in other words, the
suspect is proved to have been telling the truth. In this way,
those who make false confessions are still protected.
As Judge HUMPHREY wrote with considerable understatement of the
purported inducement, "There was no aura of oppression, no torture
it was almost a gentlemen's agreement, if you will."
Mr. SWEENEY was duly convicted by a judge and jury of robbery,
assault while using a weapon and two other weapons offences, and sentenced to six years in prison.
Fast forward to the Ontario Court of Appeal, where Mr.
SWEENEY's
new lawyer, Howard
BORENSTEIN, successfully argued that his client's
Charter right to remain silent had been violated by the police
having held over his head the "threat" of the raucous search.
In a September 25, 2000, decision, Mr. Justice Marc
ROSENBERG,
writing for the unanimous court, threw out the involuntary confession,
thundered that "a threat to destroy the property of a family
member by abusing the authority given to the police by the search
warrant is not properly characterized as a technical threat"
and said that if the confession were allowed, "it would be condoning
the use of threats to abuse judicial process" and would "raise serious concerns for the administration of justice."
More broadly, Judge
ROSENBERG said that the old St. Lawrence
rule was now so undermined by the Charter that it "would only
be in highly exceptional circumstances" that a trial judge would
be entitled to admit a confession like Mr.
SWEENEY's.
And because the poor cab driver -- remember him? -- had had only
a glimpse of his attacker, and there was virtually no other evidence
against Mr.
SWEENEY, the Court of Appeal set aside the conviction and entered an acquittal.
Mr. SWEENEY went on to compile his lengthy criminal record, allegedly
witness a double murder about which he remained mute, and die
on the floor of the G-Spot. I wonder what all that does for the glory of the administration of justice.
Clarification Due to my inability to read my own notes, I wrote
the other day that Adrian
BAPTISTE, gunned down last Saturday
in a North York parking lot and only eight days out of jail after
being acquitted of second-degree murder, had been talking of
straightening out his life, and thinking of going into law enforcement.
In fact, as his lawyer David
BAYLISS told me, Mr.
BAPTISTE had dreamed of becoming a lawyer.
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BORETZ o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-06-04 published
Joan HANER (née
BOCK)
After a courageous struggle with cancer on Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at the age of 68.
Beloved wife of Harold for 25 years. Cherished mother of Jim
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART
(Debbie,)
Bud STEWARD/STEWART/STUART, Debbie
WHALEN (Terry), Lorrie
STADNISKY (Steve), Heather
BOUCHARD
(Eric), Shelley
SAGHAFI (Abdi), Kevin
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART (Liz) and Pamela
BORETZ.
Loving grandmother of 27 and great grandmother of 21. Sister of Ruth
STEELE
(Jim,)
Rosella HARRISON
(Orville) and Evelyn
TARABAS (Pete.)
Daughter of the late
Ernest and stepdaughter of Frances
BOCK.
Aunt to several nieces and
nephews. Friends called the Arthur Funeral Home and Cremation Centre
on Friday, May 30, 2003. The funeral service was held on Saturday
May 31 with Reverend Phil
MILLER officiating. Interment Greenwood Cemetery.
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BORLAND o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-11-05 published
Wesley "
Wes"
Edward
HALL
In loving memory of Wesley "Wes" Edward
HALL who passed away on
Sunday, October 26, 2003 at the Sudbury Regional Hospital, St.
Joseph's Health Centre at the age of 70 years.
Beloved husband of Lucille
(FORTIER)
HALL predeceased 1995. Loving
father of Wesley (wife Valerie) of Toronto, Michael (wife Colleen) of
Ottawa,
Allison (husband Alvin
LANDRY) of Oshawa, John (wife
Marie-Anne) of Ponty Pool, Sharon (husband Danny
GIRARD) of
Arlington, Texas and Sherri-Lynn (husband Joseph
BORLAND) of Milan,
Mich. Cherished grandfather of Jennifer, Samantha, Jessica, Kaela,
Kaitlyn, Bradley, Rebecca, Nicholas and Ashley. Dear son of Harold
and Florence
HALL, both predeceased. Dear brother of Harold
predeceased (wife Valerie) of Cambridge, Kenneth (wife Eleanor) of
Grimsby,
Bruce of Toronto, Inez (husband Harold
COLLINS predeceased)
of Sarnia and Beverley predeceased (husband David
ARMSTRONG
predeceased). Funeral service was held in the RJ Barnard Chapel,
Jackson and Barnard Funeral Home, 233 Larch St. Sudbury on Thursday, October
30, 2003. Cremation in the Parklawn Crematorium.
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BORN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-09 published
PRYCE,
Maurice
Henry
Lecorney
Maurice
Henry
Lecorney
PRYCE died at Vancouver, British Columbia,
aged 90. He was a theoretical physicist with very broad interests.
Following a spectacular early career at Cambridge, Oxford, and
Bristol, he spent the second half of his life in the United States
and Canada. Born in Croydon, England, on the 24th of January,
1913, he spent part of his childhood with his French mother in
France where he learned to speak French 'like a Normandy peasant'.
He was always encouraging to his two younger brothers, and fond
of risky experiments such as using a magneto to fire a small
cannon loaded with home-made gunpowder. Educated at the Royal
Grammar School in Guildford he entered Trinity College, Cambridge,
in 1930, graduating in 1933 and continuing to do research there
initially with Sir Ralph Fowler and subsequently with the Nobel
laureate Max Born. He spent two years as a Commonwealth Fund
Fellow at Princeton University in 1935-7 before returning to
Cambridge as a Fellow of Trinity College. During this period
in Cambridge he made outstanding contributions to the so-called
''New Field Theory'' proposed by Born and Infeld. He also wrote
an incisive paper demolishing the then fashionable idea that
light quanta might consist of pairs of neutrinos. Paul Dirac,
then one of the most influential theoretical physicists, was
so impressed (which was a very rare occurrence) that he spontaneously
offered to communicate the work to The Royal Society. Maurice
PRYCE later remarked that this was the high-point of his scientific
life. In 1939 he was appointed to a Readership in Theoretical
Physics at Liverpool University, and married Margarete
(GRITLI)
BORN. At the advent of war he joined the team working on radar
at the Admiralty Signal Establishment, and in 1944 transferred
to the Joint Atomic Energy Project in Montreal. In 1945 he returned
to his fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a university
lectureship, but was soon invited to become Wykeham Professor
of Physics at Oxford, a chair which had recently been earmarked
for a theoretical physicist after the long tenure of Sir John
Townsend. It was a bold appointment for someone aged only 32,
who looked even younger than his years. At Oxford he rapidly
acquired a large group of research students, many returning from
war service, several of whom were to become very distinguished
in their fields. His interests and knowledge spread across many
branches of physics, and students were put to work on widely
ranging topics stretching from field theory, the nuclear shell
model, liquid helium, to solid state physics. Maurice
PRYCE became
most directly involved in interpreting the magnetic properties
of atoms which were being studied in great detail through the
paramagnetic resonance techniques by Brebis Bleaney and his colleagues
in the Clarendon Laboratory. Almost half his published work relates
to this area where he elucidated in detail the interaction between
the magnetic electrons and the lattice (the crystal field), the
effective lattice dynamics (the Jahn-Teller effect) and interaction
with the nucleus (hyperfine structure). He also added considerably
to the understanding of the magnetic properties of atoms in the
actinide series, including the newly discovered transuranics.
During his time in Oxford he took sabbatical leave to spend a
year as Visiting Professor at Princeton. On his return he acted
as the part-time head of the theoretical physics division at
the nearby Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, where
he replaced the previous head, Klaus Fuchs, who was arrested
in 1950 and convicted on a charge of spying. In 1951 Maurice
PRYCE was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1954, frustrated
by the constraints of his position and in particular by the autocratic
management of Lord Cherwell, he accepted an invitation to succeed
Nevill Mott as Henry Overton Wills Professor of Physics at the
University of Bristol. With greater administrative duties as
head of the department he had less time to develop his research
group but he continued with the subjects that he had begun at
Oxford. His first marriage had broken down, and he married Freda
KINSEY in 1961. He then accepted a tempting offer by the University
of Southern California, and moved there in 1964, with the promise
of resources to build up, essentially from scratch, a first class
physics department. The reality turned out to be less attractive
than he had hoped. In 1968 he moved again to a chair at the University
of British Columbia in Vancouver where he was to remain until
his death, on the 24th of July 2003. During these later years
his main contributions were in the quite different field of astrophysics,
although others, on molecular photoionisation and on the properties
of the hydroxyl radical, continued to display his versatility
and his wide understanding of physics. This knowledge was greatly
valued by his colleagues who would rely on a critical appraisal
of their work and its interpretation. But he did not suffer fools
gladly and was a harsh critic; in a seminar, he could devastate
the speaker and embarrass the audience with his acerbic comments.
He also continued his interest in atomic energy derived from
his wartime work and was latterly a member of the Technical Advisory
Committee to the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited with a particular
interest on nuclear fuel waste management. Some of his last work
related to the questions of the safety of deposit of radioactive
materials in geological structures. Maurice
PRYCE was a keen
walker and camper and, in younger days, a dinghy sailor. He was
a competent pianist and liked to relax by playing classical music,
mainly Bach and Mozart. He was a good cook, which stood him in
good stead when entertaining Friends and family after his second
wife died in 1990. He inherited from his father a love and knowledge
of gardening, which he passed on to all four of his children.
He always kept a boyish liking for silly games, from elaborate
sandcastles on the beach to noisy card games on the living room
floor. Until ill health stopped him, he was a skilful Scrabble
player. He created a family tradition, perhaps characteristic
of his personal philosophy, of Collaborative Scrabble -- the
main aim is, within the rules, to maximize the overall score
rather than to beat the other players. The mathematical gene
has also passed on to his son John, well known in his field of
mathematical software engineering; and
to John's son Nathaniel,
a professional software engineer. The last 14 years of his life
he spent in the company of his great friend Eileen
GOLDBERG,
the widow of a South African lawyer who had been active in the
fight against apartheid. They shared their love of music, literature,
and walks in the woods. In December, 1997, he was incapacitated
by an osteoporosis-induced bone fracture and subsequent infection,
and spent his last five years at the University Hospital in Vancouver,
visited daily by Eileen. During this period his mind was unaffected,
and he bore immobility and frequent pain with patience, courage
and a sense of humour, remaining in exemplary good spirits throughout.
He is survived by his son, John, and three daughters, Sylvia,
Lois and Suki, all from his first marriage.
Copyright: Roger Elliott and John Sanders/The Independent, London.
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BOROVOY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-27 published
Ontario human-rights pioneer Daniel G.
HILL 3rd dead at 79
By Sahm ADRANGI
Friday,
June 27, 2003 - Page A8
Daniel G. HILL 3rd, a black civil-rights activist and Ontario's
first human-rights commissioner, died yesterday in a Toronto
hospital of complications from diabetes. He was 79.
Born in Independence, Missouri, Dr.
HILL moved to Canada in the
1950s after serving in the U.S. Army and immediately became one
of Canada's leading voices on racial equality.
He helped establish the Ontario Human Rights Commission in 1962
at the height of the civil-rights movement, and became its first
director.
"Dan had a steadfast commitment to equality that never left him,"
said Alan BOROVOY, a long-time friend of Dr.
HILL and general
counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
"When he started with the human-rights commission it was very
much an experiment. The community was not behind it the way it
is today. But through a combination of toughness, wisdom and
skill, he was able to change the human-rights commission into
a formidable institution; he made it work."
Dr. HILL was the father of singer-songwriter Dan
HILL and novelist
Lawrence HILL, both well known in their own right.
Both artists were deeply affected by their father's passion for
racial equality, according to Lawrence
HILL.
"As artists and human beings, [my brother and I] identify very
much with our parents' struggle, and he's influenced us through
and through," he said.
Dr. HILL is survived by his wife, Donna, and children Dan, Lawrence
and Karen HILL.
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