UBC president.Stephen J. Toope, a human rights scholar who also served as chair of the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund Committee and as the Canadian lay delegate to the Anglican Consultative Council The Anglican Consultative Council or ACC is one of the four "Instruments of Communion" of the Anglican Communion. It was created by a resolution of the 1968 Lambeth Conference. , has been named the 12th president of the University of British Columbia Locations Vancouver The Vancouver campus is located at Point Grey, a twenty-minute drive from downtown Vancouver. It is near several beaches and has views of the North Shore mountains. The 7. . Mr. Toope, 48, will step down as president of the Pierre Trudeau Elliott Foundation when he assumes his five-year post at UBC UBC Uniform Building Code UBC University of British Columbia UBC Union of the Baltic Cities UBC United Brotherhood of Carpenters UBC Universal Battery Charger UBC Union of Baltic Cities UBC Universal Bibliographic Control UBC Used Beverage Cans this summer. While at UBC, he will also hold an academic position as tenured ten·ured adj. Having tenure: tenured civil servants; tenured faculty. Adj. 1. tenured professor of law. Mr. Toope serves as chair and rapporteur rap·por·teur n. One who is designated to give a report, as at a meeting. [Middle English raportour, judge, from Old French raporteur, from raporter, to bring back of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. He was formerly dean of the faculty of law at McGill University. An Anglican from the diocese of Montreal, Mr. Toope was one of three lawyers fluent in canon (church) law on a legal commission created by New Westminster bishop Michael Ingham to look into whether the diocese could authorize same-sex blessings. He was recently a fact finder for the federal government's Commission of Inquiry into the case of Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian, who was arrested by U.S. authorities and deported to Syria on suspicion of being a terrorist. |
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