MAMANE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-09-20 published
MESTEL,
Gita
Amsel
In Montreal, at the age of seventy-two, after a courageous and
valiant twenty-year battle against cancer, on Saturday, September
17, 2005. Left to grieve are her cherished husband of fifty-two
years, Hyman, and her children and their spouses Channah and
Sheldon, Judith, Miriam and Gilles, Zev and Jewel. Daughter of
the late Rose Spira
AMSEL
Z'l and the late Henry
AMSEL Z'l.
Gita
leaves behind a wonderful legacy of ten grandchildren: Stephanie
and Eli BELDICK; Sarah-Rose
MESTEL;
Philippe,
Raphael and Nathaniel
MAMANE; Mitchell, Joni, Shayna and Aviva
MESTEL. The family wishes
to express its deepest appreciation to the nurses and doctors
of 15 west and 10 east (palliative care), at the Montreal General
Hospital, whose names are too numerous to mention, for the gentle
and compassionate care they provided to our wife/mother and to
the family. We would like to express our deepest gratitude to
Dr. Michael Thirwell for the care and devotion he has provided
to Gita since her diagnosis over twenty years ago. Funeral Service
took place on Sunday, September 18, 2005. Shiva is being observed
at the Mestel residence: 2260 Paton Street, V.S.L., Québec, H4M
1C6. Prayer Services are being held at 7: 00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.
at the residence. Donations, in Gita's name, may be made to the
Israel Cancer Research Fund, 514-481-2723, The Starlight Foundation,
514-737-4447, or to the charity of your choice.
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MAMER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-08-15 published
MAMER,
Elizabeth
Jean "
Beth" (née
McGRANDEL)
Peacefully on August 12, 2005 at the Windsor Regional Hospital
Metropolitan Campus at the age of 53 years. Cherished wife of
Wayne. Predeceased by parents Stewart (1998) and Elsie (2004).
Loving sister of Al
McGRANDEL. Dear sister-in-law of Orval
MAMER
and wife Jane
MONTGOMERY and Janis
TERON and husband Jim. Survived
by many cousins and nieces and nephews. Beth was a dedicated
employee of McDonald's Restaurant (Teoumseh and Lauzon Rd.) for
20 years; and her involvements included Girl Guide's of Canada
(avolunteer for 23 years); Ladies Oriental Shrine of North America
(Bokhara Court 22); Daughter of the Nile and Oronto Temple 69
The Supreme Council Order of the Amaranth Inc. (Lily of the Valley
Court 12). Visiting at The Windsor Chapel Funeral Home 1700 Tecumseh
Road East on Monday 2-5 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Service will be
held on Tuesday, August 16, 2005 at 11: 00 a.m. in the Chapel.
Rev. Paul ALMOND officiating. Cremation to follow. In lieu of
flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer
Society or to "The Quiet Place at Camp Bryerswood Girl Guides
of Canada." Online condolences may be shared with Beth's family
at www.windsorchapel.com
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MAMMOLITI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-10-11 published
MAMMOLITI,
Concetta
God called Concetta peacefully on October 9th, 2005 from the
William Osler Health Centre - Etobicoke at the age of 74. She
will be reunited in Heaven with her loving husband Michele. She
will be cherished by her dear children Salvatore (Natalina),
Pasqualina, Luciano (Ida), and Leonardo (Diana). She was the
proud nonna of eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Concetta will always be remembered by her brothers and sisters.
She will be held dear in the hearts of her nieces, nephews, cousins,
relatives, and many Friends. Family will receive Friends at the
Fratelli Vescio Funeral Homes Ltd. (8101 Weston Rd., south of
Langstaff Rd., 905-850-3332) on Tuesday, from 2-9 p.m. A Funeral
Mass will be celebrated on Wednesday at 10: 00 a.m. from St. David
Roman Catholic Church (2601 Major Mackenzie Dr., east of Jane
St.). Entombment to follow at the Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
(on Yonge Street, south of Hwy. 7). In lieu of flowers, the Mammoliti
family will accept donations to the Canadian Cancer Society,
Sunnybrook Hospital (Cancer Ward) and St. Michael's Hospital
(Cancer Ward).
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MAMMOLITI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-11-07 published
O'NEILL,
Grace
Evelyn
(July 18, 1905-November 5, 2005)
Amazing Grace Takes Her Final Bow. Predeceased by her husband
Thomas H. O'NEILL and her devoted son Kenneth T.
O'NEILL.
Survived
by her son Robert A.
O'NEILL
(Catherine,) daughter Doreen
KENNEDY
(Arthur,) 7 grandchildren Michael
O'NEILL
(Lori,)
Rosemary
O'NEILL
(Gilles COLOUMBE), Anne
RIALL (Michael
STORONIAK), Susan
ARNAUD
(Tony), Carol-Anne
SCOTT, Janet
MAMMOLITI and Linda
BAKER-
GARBIN.
Loved nana of 15 great-grandchildren and 7 great-great-grandchildren,
nieces and nephews. Avery special thanks to Rosemary
RYAN, M.C.
CLARKE and Monica
MITCHELL and "A" Wing staff at the Harold and
Grace Baker Centre. Dear Mom and Nana we all love you and you
will forever be in our hearts. Friends may call at the Morley
Bedford Funeral Home 159 Eglinton Ave. West, Toronto (2 stoplights
west of Yonge Street) Tuesday, November 8, from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
A Funeral Mass will be held in Saint Margaret's Of Scotland Church,
222 Ridley Blvd., Toronto on Wednesday, November 9, at 10: 30
a.m. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery.
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MAMO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-11-15 published
James McLEOD,
Writer,
Lawyer And Teacher (1947-2005)
University of Western Ontario professor who was regarded as 'the
conscience of the family law bar and judiciary in Canada' was
misunderstood as a sexist reactionary
By Ron CSILLAG,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Tuesday, November
15, 2005, Page S9
Toronto -- It's no small feat to be compared in one's lifetime
to libertarian journalist H.L. Mencken and right-wing radio host
Rush
Limbaugh.
James
McLEOD just sought to make the world a better
place but, on at least one occasion, was adjudged to have done
the opposite.
A prolific writer, editor, appellate lawyer and professor at
the University of Western Ontario's law school for 33 years,
Prof. McLEOD was remembered by colleagues as Canada's pre-eminent
barrister and scholar of family law. Those close to him recall
a frighteningly encyclopedic knowledge that could be summoned
in an instant, with clarity, accuracy and wit. His mastery of
family law was so prodigious and widely known that a judge once
openly wondered whether Prof.
McLEOD slept with a dictaphone.
Known to Friends as Jay and to family members as Gary (his middle
name,) Prof.
McLEOD's name was virtually synonymous with Canadian
family law and all its arcana. As editor-in-chief of Reports
of Family Law for 27 years, he screened tens of thousands of
cases -- virtually every written family law ruling in the country.
And as author of more than 1,000 case commentaries (known as
annotations), he helped shape and develop important legal concepts.
Those annotations were the stuff of legend; while highly regarded,
they were not always flattering.
"Much as a producer of a new Broadway play waits anxiously to
read the reviews by the critics the next morning, judges were
always apprehensive about what Prof.
McLEOD might think of their
decision and whether they would pass his rigorous standards,"
wrote long-time colleague, co-author and self-described tag-team
partner, London, Ontario, lawyer Alfred
MAMO, whose firm Prof.
McLEOD had joined for 17 years to write opinions and handle appeals.
One tribute to Prof.
McLEOD's "phenomenal" stature in family
law is the fact that his writings have been quoted with approval
by virtually every court in the land with jurisdiction in family
law, and on numerous occasions by the Supreme Court of Canada,
Mr. MAMO said. "To a large degree," he added, "Jay was the conscience
of the family law bar and judiciary in Canada," and his comments
were "the gold standard" for legal analysis in family law.
Sometimes, his parsing of a case was longer than the case itself.
Toronto family lawyer Harold
NIMAN, a long-time friend whose
daily e-mail exchange with Prof.
McLEOD would begin at 5: 30 a.m.,
recalls a court ruling this year on whether a set time a child
spends with one parent should be calculated in hours or days.
The decision was contained in half a page. Prof.
McLEOD's annotation
ran for four pages "as he analyzed in his Einstein-like way the
abstruse existential territory of time-space and relativity,
and whether sleeping and being in school qualified" as time spent
with a parent.
Prof. McLEOD was "often like a dog with a bone when it came to
a legal issue.... He was without a doubt the most energetic and
entertaining speaker I have ever heard. He could pack more into
a lecture than any person I have heard or seen. I was so exhausted
after hearing him speak that I often needed to have a nap," said
Mr. NIMAN, whose firm Prof.
McLEOD joined as counsel in 2003.
"Jay was the H.L. Mencken of family law."
He was able to reduce the most intricate and forbidding legal
case to its "barest human essentials," wrote University of Western
Ontario colleague Rande
KOSTAL in the student newspaper Nexus.
"He regarded the law as a way -- an imperfect way -- of imposing
some rational order on the unruly tragicomedy of everyday life.
And he strove, with legendary success, to be the funniest man
on the funniest subject of them all: the rituals of human love,
marriage and parenthood."
To others, he wasn't always so funny.
In the late 1980s and early '90s, Prof.
McLEOD championed the
"causal connection" theory of spousal support, which posited
that a person shouldn't be obliged to support an ex-spouse unless
the marriage "caused" or contributed to the ex's need for support.
His theory was promptly attacked as reactionary and sexist; according
to a 2000 profile in Lawyer's Weekly, he was once introduced
at a conference as "family law's answer to Rush Limbaugh." (He
was also reportedly pelted with buns at a dinner.) A band of
family law practitioners even wrote and performed a protest song,
The Ballad of Jay McLeod.
A 1992 Supreme Court of Canada decision put an end to the theory
and, although Prof.
McLEOD later said he regretted that it had
been used to hurt long-term spouses (almost always middle-aged
women), he defended it: "All the causal connection theory said
was, 'You come into marriage as individuals. You leave marriage
as individuals. And you shouldn't have a right to support from
the other person unless somehow the circumstances that cause
you to need money are somehow related to the relationship," he
said in the Lawyer's Weekly piece. "That was it."
Born to a full-time homemaker and a labourer who had served in
the wartime Canadian navy, he was the oldest of five siblings
and the first member of his family to attend university. And
he did so with a vengeance. After two years as an undergraduate
at Western Ontario, he enrolled in law school (because there
was "no market for Robin Hood," he would later quip), and placed
first in each year, going on to win the Gold Medal by a wide
margin in 1971. He earned a master's degree in law at the University
of London in 1972, the year he joined University of Western Ontario's
faculty to teach corporate and commercial subjects, and two years
before his call to the Ontario bar.
In 1978, he was invited to annotate and edit the Reports of Family
Law, and he never looked back. "Once I got going in the area
and started to write these things, all of a sudden it dawns on
you, 'My God, in three pages you can have a lot of fun saying
this stuff,' " he recalled. "It took on a life of its own. The
annotations basically built and created me."
He went on to edit other legal publications, including those
on child custody and matrimonial property. Many lawyers eagerly
awaited his pithy and popular weekly on-line newsletter, This
Week in Family Law. When he died, he was the University of Western
Ontario law school's associate dean for administration and a
respected teacher at the university's Ivey School of Business.
While taking one of Prof.
McLEOD's third-year classes, an older
student, a single mother of two, turned to her friend and wondered,
"Is he always such a jerk?"
The word became a "term of endearment," chuckles Margaret
McSORLEY,
who married her professor in 1981. Years later, the two legalists
found themselves on opposite sides of a case, he representing
the wife, she the husband. They soon negotiated an agreement.
"He talked a mile a minute and would always make you laugh,"
says Ms. McSORLEY, a family lawyer who was named a judge of the
Ontario Court of Justice in 2003. "But what a stickler."
Indeed, Prof.
McLEOD was a long-time proponent of rigour in family
law. "We are law, too, and I want it treated that way," he said.
Even the Supreme Court of Canada was criticized for laxness.
"I think this court is a discretion court and that hides a multitude
of sins," he said five years ago. "I don't like undisciplined
power or uncontrolled power. I like rules. I like some form of
clearly structured discretion."
He helped set some of those rules, winning important cases before
the Ontario Court of Appeal, including Elliot v. Elliot, which
set a precedent on compensatory support in the province.
He didn't relax much, apparently. Some golf, maybe an old movie.
Mostly, he worked. He wanted to make a mark. "I'd hate to think
that I would go through life and was nothing but average as I
did it," he told Lawyer's Weekly. "So I have got an opportunity
doing this stuff, and I try to use it."
James Gary
McLEOD was born in Guelph, Ontario, on November 29,
1947, and died in New Hamburg, Ontario, on October 4, 2005, of
a heart attack. He was 57. He leaves his mother, Pauline
McLEOD,
his wife, Margaret
McSORLEY, five children and four grandchildren.
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