KALEIGH’S BIG DAY CHECK IT OUT Nine-year-old who has spent most of her life at Sick Kids celebrates her Nova Scotia homecoming, A2 One of Toronto’s Little Free Library stewards explains the program that’s become a phenomenon, GT1 WEATHER HIGH – 1 C | SUN AND CLOUDS | MAP S12 MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2014 ‘THIS IS MY WORST NIGHTMARE’ Families anxiously await word on missing AirAsia Flight 8501 as Malaysia grapples with its third major air disaster in a year BERNARD WEIL/TORONTO STAR Edward Greenspan’s family leaves his funeral service Sunday. Remembering the life, laughs of a legal lion More than 800 gather for funeral of criminal lawyer Edward Greenspan BETSY POWELL STAFF REPORTER TRISNADI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THOMAS FULLER THE NEW YORK TIMES JAKARTA, INDONESIA—The head of the Indonesian agency searching for a missing AirAsia jet carrying 162 people said Monday that he believed the aircraft was “at the bottom of the sea” and warned that the country lacked adequate equipment to conduct an underwater search. “The capability of our equipment is not optimum,” Bambang Soelistyo, the head of Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency, said at a news conference. Malaysia, Singapore and Australia joined the searchand-rescue operation, an effort that evoked a distressingly familiar mix of grief and mystery nine months after a Malaysia Airlines jetliner disappeared over the Indian Ocean. The Airbus A320-200, operated by the Indonesian affiliate of AirAsia, a regional budget carrier based in Malaysia, lost contact with ground controllers off the coast of Borneo on Sunday morning. Tony Fernandes, the Malaysian businessman who in 2001 founded AirAsia, a budget airline with an excellent safety record to date, sent out a tweet Sunday: “This is my worst nightmare.” Relatives of the passengers of AirAsia Flight 8501 comfort each other at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, Indonesia, on Sunday. MISSING FLIGHT continued on A12 A harrowing arrival, a happy ending Baby’s breech delivery at roadside ‘scariest day of my life,’ dad says KATRINA CLARKE STAFF REPORTER Ayden Connor Rorke is truly a miracle baby. His parents knew his birth would be risky — Ayden was breech and his mother was scheduled for a C-section — but they didn’t expect to be delivering him on the side of a road, with no heartbeat and the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck. “It was the scariest day of my life,” said dad Ryan Rorke, 33. Today, Ayden is a happy, healthy baby boy adjusting to life at home in Alcona, near Barrie — but his dad can’t stop thinking about their terrifying Christmas Eve ordeal. The day had started off with excitement at 5 a.m. when Ryan’s wife, Sarah, realized her water had broken. She woke Ryan up, took a shower and got ready to leave for the hospital. The in-laws arrived to take care of the couple’s 4-year-old son Lyam, and by 5:50 a.m. the two were en route to Barrie’s Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre to welcome their Christmas baby. But suddenly, Sarah’s contractions began coming quickly and close together. Ten minutes into their foggy drive on Highway 400, she turned to her husband and said, “You have to pull over. He’s coming,” Ryan told the Star. Ryan called 911, turned at the Dunlop St. exit in Barrie and parked on the side of the road near a Tim Hortons. BABY AYDEN continued on A16 FAMILY PHOTO Ryan and Sarah Rorke, baby Ayden and Lyam, 4, are all healthy after Ayden’s roadside birth on Dec. 24. Since his sudden death last week, Edward Greenspan has been remembered for his forceful advocacy, his devotion to the justice system and for a legacy of inspiring past and future generations of criminal lawyers. On Sunday, those closest to Greenspan eulogized the legal giant with a mix of heartfelt and humorous anecdotes at a funeral packed with 800 mourners that included many judges, Crown attorneys, defence colleagues and clients. Greenspan died of heart failure in his sleep Christmas Eve hours after family members ate dinner together at their vacation home in Phoenix, Ariz. He was 70. Along with a who’s who of the legal profession, prominent Torontonians in attendance included filmmaker David Cronenberg, former Toronto mayor Mel Lastman, Blue Jays’ president and CEO Paul Beeston, and longtime friend and co-author George Jonas. OR0 JULIANNA GREENSPAN ON HER FATHER’S REQUIREMENTS FOR HIS EULOGY GREENSPAN continued on A3 ‘High error rate’ plagues immigration processing NICHOLAS KEUNG IMMIGRATION REPORTER Internal government reviews found a “high error rate” in immigration processing, from permanent resident applications to refugee work permits, prompting fears about the system’s integrity. The human errors — staff failing to use correct form letters, address missing documents and provide accurate timelines — could not only cost individual applicants a chance to live and work in Canada but affect the “efficiency of the system” and create unnecessary backlogs. “An important area of concerns resides with the letters. The number of request letters not sent, sent incomplete or unclear at initial stage and later on create a negative impact on both clients and the Case Processing Centre (in Vegreville, Alta.),” read one evaluation. IMMIGRATION continued on A16 The year in parenting Even President Obama struggles with his kids, E6 Florida meltdown Back from break, Leafs lose to Panthers, S1 áFULL INDEX FOR MONDAY PAGE A2 “He gave me an order: ‘When I die you must be funny, very funny, no sentimental bull---t.’ ” Internal government reviews find immigration department employees often fail to use correct form letters or provide accurate timelines
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