Shopping for Home Runs A senior partner in the Toronto office of the international law firm of Gowling, Strathy & Henderson, Toronto, Chris Paliare received his LL.B., Osgoode Hall, 1970, his LL.M., University of Texas, 1971, and was called to the Ontario Bar, 1973. He was articled to and then a partner of Ian G. Scott, Q.C., one of Canada’s finest advocates, who went on to become Ontario’s Attorney General. Chris specializes in commercial litigation, Constitutional and Charter Rights litigation, public law, and employment law, at all levels of Court, including the Supreme Court of Canada. Committed to Macedonian issues in Canada and abroad, Chris has been on the Board of Directors of Canadian Macedonian Place, a senior citizen’s residence for Macedonian Canadians since its creation, 1979, and has served as its president for five years. On the international stage, he has fought for human rights conferences in Moscow, Helsinki, and Warsaw. He was also active in assisting the Republic of Macedonia achieve international recognition as a sovereign state following the break-up of Yugoslavia in 1991. This 1979 view of Chris and his wife, Eva Marszewski, also a lawyer, illustrates Tsena Paliare (Balkou), the paternal grandmother of Chris who was born, 1889, in Tyrsca, a village in the portion of Macedonia now part of Greece. She immigrated to Canada, 1935, to join her husband, George, and Chris’ father, Norman, who earlier had immigrated to Toronto, 1927. She passed away in 1994 at age 95. Chris’ commitment to Macedonian issues stems from the close relationship he had with his grandparents. [Photo, courtesy Chris Paliare]

Fighting for Human Rights Worldwide Stan Thomas traces his roots to that part of Macedonia which had been annexed by Greece at the end of the First Balkan War, 1912-13. His father’s Macedonian surname, Bozinov, was hellenized to Bozinis and when he immigrated to Canada, 1930, settling in Windsor, Ontario, his name was anglicized to Thomas. It was 17 years before Boris (Stan’s father) was able to send for his wife and family to join him because of the intervening Depression and World War II, but once the war was over, his wife and two children joined him in Windsor. The very next year, Boris and Dana Thomas became the proud parents of Stan, today, Senior Executive Vice President, Marketing, Shoppers Drug Mart. A graduate MBA, York University, Stan is an individual who has not neglected his Macedonian roots. When the Kosovo crisis erupted, 1999, Stan Thomas spear headed a drive to send four million dollars worth of pharmaceutical supplies to Macedonia which had been flooded by thousands of Kosovo refugees. Director, Canadia Macedonian Senior Citizen’s Centre, Toronto, since 1979, andPresident, 1990-93, Stan Thomas assists in guiding many of thecharitable activities of Shoppers Drug Mart which, in consort with the Blue Jays Charitable Foundation, has teamed up to help kids in distress across Canada. Thanks to this partnership, Kids Help Phone received $500 from Shoppers Drug Mart and the Blue Jays Charitable Foundation for every Blue Jay home run hit out of the park, 1999. In this view, Stan, left, shares a moment with Toronto Blue Jay All-Star, Shawn Green, unveiling Shoppers Drug Mart/Toronto Blue Jays 1999 calendar. [Photo, courtesy Shoppers Drug Mart]