David Sillars

• Appeal dismissed in precedent-setting deadly impaired operation of a canoe case

  On June 27, 2019, David Sillars was convicted by Justice Peter C. West and on Oct. 4, 2019, he was sentenced to six years in prison.

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  Jul 5, 2022
  
• Appeal heard in precedent-setting Ontario case involving impaired operation of a canoe

  "It's bringing up a lot of old emotions. It's tough to hear some of the old stuff again," Rancourt told Global News, clearly still very heartbroken about the death of his son.

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  May 30, 2022
  
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• Toronto man sentenced to 6 years in prison after being found guilty of impaired operation of canoe

  “It is the first time charges have been prosecuted respecting the operation of a canoe where the individual operating the canoe had consumed alcohol and marijuana."

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  Oct 4, 2019
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• Sentencing hearing begins for Ontario man convicted of impaired operation of canoe causing child’s death

  “Things will never be the way things were on April 6, 2017 because April 7, 2017 happened. I never knew Thomas Rancourt. I think everyone in this courtroom agrees he (Thomas) was a special little boy."

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  Aug 15, 2019
• Toronto man found guilty of impaired operation of a canoe in precedent-setting case

  An Etobicoke man has been found guilty of impaired operation of a canoe causing death after an eight-year-old boy drowned when the vessel capsized in 2017.

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  Jun 27, 2019
• Toronto man on trial for impaired operation of canoe causing child’s death

  Jamie Rancourt has been mourning the tragic death of his son eight-year-old Thomas Rancourt for 18 months, but says wants to see justice done and believes the man who took Thomas canoeing the day he drowned should be punished for what he did.

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  Oct 18, 2018