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I've visited this church a long time ago. It has a sizeable West Indian contingent in the congregation. At one time, one of the pastors was Jamaican and he had locks. Don't know if he is still there.
Long after my visit, this was one of the churches recommended to me as a good place to attend to possibly meet a Christian husband of Caribbean heritage.
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Ennerdale Road Baptist Church is a multi-ethnic, Christ-centred, Bible-believing congregation worshipping together in Toronto.
A warm welcome awaits you at any of our services
as we join together for joy-filled, simple, reverent worship and fellowship.
We sing, pray, and hear the proclamation of God's Word,
rejoicing in the unchanging greatness of God
and what He has done for us through Jesus Christ.
Regardless of who you are or what your background is, we invite you to join us at any of our weekly meetings as we seek together to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
A warm welcome awaits you at any of our services
as we join together for joy-filled, simple, reverent worship and fellowship.
We sing, pray, and hear the proclamation of God's Word,
rejoicing in the unchanging greatness of God
and what He has done for us through Jesus Christ.
Regardless of who you are or what your background is, we invite you to join us at any of our weekly meetings as we seek together to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
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A former pastor accused of drugging and drowning his pregnant wife in a bathtub has been found guilty of manslaughter by a jury after two days of deliberations.Philip Grandine, 28, accidentally described by his lawyer during closing arguments as “Mr. Lorazepam,” remained impassive as the verdict was read.
Grandine was charged with first-degree murder six months after his wife was killed on Oct. 17, 2011.
Anna Karissa Grandine was 29-years-old and 20 weeks pregnant when she died.
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She never learned the sex of the baby — she was killed four days before the ultrasound appointment, the trial heard.
Karissa, as she was known to friends and family, was excited about becoming a mother, Crown prosecutor Donna Kellway told the jury in her closing statement.
On her bedside table, by a pillow that the Crown alleged became stained with vomit on the night of her death as she reacted to the sedative in her system, was a pregnancy book.
The Crown argued that Grandine, a trained nurse and manager at a retirement home, planned to murder his wife by drugging her with prescription sedatives he could easily take from his workplace. His motive — to be free to be with his mistress Eileen Florentino, who he continued to see before and after Karissa’s death, the trial heard.
The defence argued that Karissa somehow obtained and took the drugs herself. Her death may have been an accident, defence lawyer Amit Thakore suggested, or she committed suicide in a fog of depression brought on by her husband’s infidelity.
Grandine resigned as a pastor at the Ennerdale Baptist Church after Karissa discovered the affair in August 2011, standing up before the community and admitting that he had cheated on his wife with a parishioner.
The couple began marriage counselling and a computer filter to prevent him from watching pornography was installed on their home computer. It was uninstalled on the night Karissa died, half-an-hour before Grandine called 911.
Grandine was charged with first-degree murder six months after his wife was killed on Oct. 17, 2011.
Anna Karissa Grandine was 29-years-old and 20 weeks pregnant when she died.
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She never learned the sex of the baby — she was killed four days before the ultrasound appointment, the trial heard.
Karissa, as she was known to friends and family, was excited about becoming a mother, Crown prosecutor Donna Kellway told the jury in her closing statement.
On her bedside table, by a pillow that the Crown alleged became stained with vomit on the night of her death as she reacted to the sedative in her system, was a pregnancy book.
The Crown argued that Grandine, a trained nurse and manager at a retirement home, planned to murder his wife by drugging her with prescription sedatives he could easily take from his workplace. His motive — to be free to be with his mistress Eileen Florentino, who he continued to see before and after Karissa’s death, the trial heard.
The defence argued that Karissa somehow obtained and took the drugs herself. Her death may have been an accident, defence lawyer Amit Thakore suggested, or she committed suicide in a fog of depression brought on by her husband’s infidelity.
Grandine resigned as a pastor at the Ennerdale Baptist Church after Karissa discovered the affair in August 2011, standing up before the community and admitting that he had cheated on his wife with a parishioner.
The couple began marriage counselling and a computer filter to prevent him from watching pornography was installed on their home computer. It was uninstalled on the night Karissa died, half-an-hour before Grandine called 911.
He used the computer to do Internet searches on whether 100 mg of Lorazepam would be fatal, according to the Crown. Search terms included: “autopsy,” “Lorazepam” and “toxicology” indicating he was concerned about the death looking suspicious, Kellway argued.
He used a high but still “therapeutic” dose of the drug, commonly known as Ativan, so it would not look like an overdose, Kellway said.
He first used himself as a guinea pig to test the effects of the drug, making him drowsy and nauseous, the Crown argued.
Then he conducted a “dress rehearsal” for the murder, spiking Karissa’s banana smoothie four days before she died.
Karissa was hospitalized overnight as a result and told her friend that it felt like she “lost a day of her life” because she could not remember what had happened. She wondered to her sister whether Grandine had put something in her drink, the trial heard.
On the night of Oct. 17, 2011, a Monday, the Crown said Grandine put the final plan in motion. He once again drugged Karissa’s smoothie and either carried or coaxed his disoriented or possibly unconscious wife to the bathtub, Kellway said. Oddly, her head was by the tap end of the bath, Kellway said in her closing argument.
He may have gently held her head under the water, or simply let her body sink, Kellway said. Then he called 911 from the landline in the Scarborough home.
The 911 call, the defence argued, shows Grandine genuinely tried to help his wife when he came home from an hour-long night-time jog to find her unconscious in the bathtub
He actually spent half of that hour on the phone with Florentino, their final call ending three minutes before he dialed 911, the court heard.
Superior Court Justice Robert Clark specifically warned the jury not to punish Grandine for behaviour they may find “morally repugnant.” He is on trial for murder, not “any moral failings you may attribute to him,” Clark said in his charge to the jury.
The jury had the option to convict Grandine of first-degree murder, second-degree murder or manslaughter, or to acquit him.
To make a finding of manslaughter, the jury would have had to find that Grandine caused his wife’s death through an unlawful act.
In this case, that could mean surreptitiously drugging his wife (itself an unlawful act) and causing her to get into the bathtub, Clark told the jury.
But in a question to the judge on Wednesday the jury raised a new scenario, one not previously addressed during the trial. What if Grandine had knowledge of Karissa taking a bath while under the influence of the sedative and didn’t stop her?
He first used himself as a guinea pig to test the effects of the drug, making him drowsy and nauseous, the Crown argued.
Then he conducted a “dress rehearsal” for the murder, spiking Karissa’s banana smoothie four days before she died.
Karissa was hospitalized overnight as a result and told her friend that it felt like she “lost a day of her life” because she could not remember what had happened. She wondered to her sister whether Grandine had put something in her drink, the trial heard.
On the night of Oct. 17, 2011, a Monday, the Crown said Grandine put the final plan in motion. He once again drugged Karissa’s smoothie and either carried or coaxed his disoriented or possibly unconscious wife to the bathtub, Kellway said. Oddly, her head was by the tap end of the bath, Kellway said in her closing argument.
He may have gently held her head under the water, or simply let her body sink, Kellway said. Then he called 911 from the landline in the Scarborough home.
The 911 call, the defence argued, shows Grandine genuinely tried to help his wife when he came home from an hour-long night-time jog to find her unconscious in the bathtub
He actually spent half of that hour on the phone with Florentino, their final call ending three minutes before he dialed 911, the court heard.
Superior Court Justice Robert Clark specifically warned the jury not to punish Grandine for behaviour they may find “morally repugnant.” He is on trial for murder, not “any moral failings you may attribute to him,” Clark said in his charge to the jury.
The jury had the option to convict Grandine of first-degree murder, second-degree murder or manslaughter, or to acquit him.
To make a finding of manslaughter, the jury would have had to find that Grandine caused his wife’s death through an unlawful act.
In this case, that could mean surreptitiously drugging his wife (itself an unlawful act) and causing her to get into the bathtub, Clark told the jury.
But in a question to the judge on Wednesday the jury raised a new scenario, one not previously addressed during the trial. What if Grandine had knowledge of Karissa taking a bath while under the influence of the sedative and didn’t stop her?
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