Gary Murphy Remembered As Passionate And Dedicated Community Builder Worldwide
Scott Mills-Toronto: On February 6, 2012 Michael Gordon-Gibson issued a statement to the world advising of Murphy’s death: In Memory of Gary Murphy, Past President of Crime Stoppers International by Crime Stoppers International on Monday, February 6, 2012 at 12:56pm Message From Crime Stoppers International President Michael Gordon-Gibson Monday February 6, 2012. I am sad [...]
Grammy award winning singer Etta James has died from complications from leukemia with her family by her side in California. She was diagnosed with the disease in 2010. Etta James was known for her soulful voice. The 2001 Blue Hall of Fame inductee started her career in the 1950s. She battled drug addiction, which lead [...]
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She was a beautiful blonde skiing maverick changing the sport for women worldwide. The slopes were her second home, a home that would claim her life. On Thursday Superpipe and Slopestyle skier Sarah Burke, 28, died in a Utah hospital from injuries of a training accident on January 10. She was born in Barrie, Ontario [...]
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She lived her life in Canada with love in her heart. Rosemary Hardwick died suddenly on Saturday from heart failure at the age of 54. Rosemary Hardwick came to Toronto from Queensland, Australia in 1986. As soon as she landed on Canadian soil she made a difference in the lives of LBGT youth in Toronto [...]
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Journalist Christopher Hitchens has died from complications from cancer at the age of 62 reports Vanity Fair. He was diagnosed last year with esophageal cancer. Oxford educated Hitchens didn’t shy away from controversy, rather he embraced it. From authoring the bestseller God is Not Great to penning critical columns at Vanity Fair on Wonston Churchill, [...]
Continue reading …M*A*S*H star Harry Morgan died Wednesday at the age of 96 at his Los Angeles home. He had recently been treated for pneumonia. Morgan is best known for his television roles as Officer Bill Gannon in Dragnet and Colonel Potter on M*A*S*H. The last show of the M*A*S*H, “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen” has became the [...]
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The man behind Family Circus, Bill Keane passed away on Tuesday. Keane was known for his family oriented comic strip that has run in syndication since 1960 and is in more than 1,500 newspapers across the United States. Born in Philadelphia on October 5, 1922 Bill Keane grew up a funny kid. He left home [...]
Continue reading …Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, Inc. has passed away at the age of 56 from pancreatic cancer. Jobs was diagnosed in 2004 with the disease, which has a poor prognosis. He told employees about his condition the same year. While he took time to tend to his health Timothy D. Cook ran Apple, Inc. Apple [...]
Continue reading …TORONTO, Aug. 26, 2011 /CNW/ – With great sadness, the Archdiocese announces that His Eminence, Cardinal Aloysius Ambrozic, retired Archbishop of Toronto, died earlier today, after a lengthy illness, at the age of 81. The late Cardinal was a priest for 56 years, bishop for 35 years and served as 9th Archbishop of Toronto from [...]
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KJ Mullins: New York born actor Peter Falk died Thursday at his Beverly Hills home at the age of 83 a statement released Friday by family friend Larry Larson. He had suffered from dementia since 2007 after a series of dental operations. Peter Falk was best known as the rumbled detective Columbo. The character appeared [...]
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