BBYO Gets Grant

TORONTO — B’nai Brith Youth Organization’s Lake Ontario region, headquartered in Toronto, received a $73,500 Ontario Trillium Foundation grant, the provincial agency said this month. To be dispensed over two years, it will fund staff, workshops and more youth-led recreation activities, as well as promote leadership and expand BBYO’s alumni network. The grant was one of 485 totalling just over $3  million announced Aug. 5.

Family Drops Lawsuit

WINNIPEG — The family of an elderly Jewish man who died while at the centre of an end-of-life medical treatment dispute has dropped its lawsuit against the agency responsible for the hospital that tried to take him off life support. Samuel Golubchuk, 85, died June 24 after spending seven months on life support at Grace General Hospital. Doctors there wanted to take the Orthodox man off life support, but his family sued the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority to stop them. He died before the case could come to trial. The end of the lawsuit means the case won’t set a precedent for how to deal with dying patients in similar situations, the Winnipeg Sun reported.