And in 2014, he posted about his 11 years of "married bliss" to 40-year-old Fric-Shamji, a family doctor in the city's Scarborough neighbourhood and mother to the couple's three children.
"She is the moon of my life," he wrote, quoting the fantasy TV series Game of Thrones.
"And you are my Sun and Stars," Fric-Shamji tweeted back.
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From a professional perspective, Shamji and Fric-Shamji were a medical power couple.
But at a dinner with OMA colleagues in Toronto on Nov. 25, Fric-Shamji confided that she'd filed divorce papers.
Two physicians who spoke to CBC News, Dr. Nadia Alam, a family physician and anaesthetist in Georgetown, Ont., and Dr. Darren Cargill, a palliative care physician in Windsor, Ont., both confirmed hearing Fric-Shamji speak about her impending divorce to the man she married back in 2004.
"She said she was looking forward to a new beginning," Cargill recalled.
Police previously said the couple were having marital problems and believe Fric-Shamji's death was "a deliberate act."