MANDEL: Impaired canoeist saved himself instead of helpless child, says grieving grandma
(WorldNews Sport)

OSHAWA – The grandmother of the drowned boy is tearfully pouring out her heart in the hushed courtroom. But then the respectful silence is torn by a groan. David Sillars — convicted of the drunk canoeing that led to the death of eight-year-old Thomas Rancourt — is lolling back in his chair as if he were watching a bad play and murmuring in disgust. And incredibly, still in his corner and still supporting him despite the guilty verdicts that blame the impaired Sillars for taking her son into the frigid, raging Muskoka River, sits Thomas’s mother Jessica Hooper. No wonder so much tension bristles in this sentencing hearing, even as Ontario Court Justice Peter West...