We’re pleased to announce the 2008 Student Blawger of the Year.
The LawIsCool team selects an individual who has made a unique contribution for the past academic year worthy of recognition.
This year’s award goes to Daniel Simard, for his courage and fortitude in addressing some very controversial and topical issues.
A short biography of Daniel Simard is […]
by Omar Ha-Redeye and Jacob Kaufman
(from the March Issue of Nexus, Western Law’s Student Newspaper)
The novel The Lord of the Rings was a phenomenon. The movie trilogy based upon it has grossed over a billion dollars and won a slew of Oscars.
But what’s really interesting about the work is that it is about property […]
More animal stories in the law.
A New Zealand man who claimed he was raped by a wombat and that the experience left him speaking with an Australian accent has been found guilty of wasting police time.
Arthur Cradock, 48, from the South Island town of Motueka, called police last month to tell them he was being […]
Stephen Lewis at Dalhousie University
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz16oP4cb9E
The talk was given at Dalhousie University last year where he said,
When one part of the human family is under siege, the privileged part of the family responds…
There’s a possibility of changing the way this world works. Or if you can’t change the world, at least altering the human condition for […]
Steve Sailer, a Conservative American journalist, found out the hard way that we don’t.
He completed the Citizenship and Immigration Canada Self-Assessment Worksheet in 2001 and scored 61 points. The passing mark for consideration of an interview is 60.
(The current passing mark is 67) >>> […]
Communications staff in firms often scratch their heads on how to get coverage. Well, some people are willing to make it a little easier for you.
Jordan Furlong, editor-in-chief at the CBA’s National magazine, gives some tips for writing for the media:
1. Read my publication before contacting me.
2. Pay attention to what country I work […]
The Legal Underground provides 14 tips for developing your legal blog (blawg):
1. Pick a Topic.
2. Keep it Interesting.
3. Brand Your Blawg.
4. Be Prepared to Learn.
5. Link Early, Link Often.
6. Build a Blogroll.
7. Use Typepad. [or similar software like WordPress]
8. Find Out Who is Linking to You.
9. […]
By Brian Heal
We often teach our systems planners and policymakers the mantra that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
It is easier to provide affordable housing options for those in need rather than respond to a crises of homelessness when it arrives.
Provinces that create new jobs to support an aging population will […]
In a Supreme Court of B.C. ruling released this weekend, British Columbia Nurses’ Union v. Attorney General of British Columbia, nurses have won the latest fight against two-tier healthcare.
The British Columbia Nursing Union (BCNU) filed a suit against the provincial attorney general and Medical Services Commission for allowing the expansion of private […]
by Alex Dimson (from the March Issue of Nexus, Western Law’s Student Newspaper)
A plan to create a new law school at Lakehead University is likely to be approved after significant political pressure was placed on the Law Society of Upper Canada.
Sources tell Nexus that Lakehead’s plan has been fast-tracked and is likely to be approved […]
by Alex Dimson (from the March Issue of Nexus, Western Law’s Student Newspaper)
Even as Lakehead University’s application to open a new law school seems likely to be approved, a similar bid by Wilfred Laurier University remains in limbo.
Laurier’s plan, which was submitted in June 2007, has been officially placed on hold while the Law […]
Tasteless Tattoos
A recent online prank among bloggers has raised the issue of poking fun around sensitive issues such as the Holocaust.
Racial and ethnic humour abounds among comedians, though most prefer to poke fun only at the group(s) they identify with and belong to, as to do otherwise appears degenerating. But members of the in-group […]
This was the best we could come up with from Windsor.
Windsor Law Social Orientation 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fnWPTdO2AQ
Don D. Buchwald of Kelley, Drye & Warren LLP, counsel for the call-girl involved in the Gov. Spitzer scandal, is standing up for his client’s rights.
He’s not defending against allegations of prostitution or the like.
He’s claiming that photos of Alexandra Dupre found in the media are violating copyright laws.
Photos such as the one on […]
The largest Canadian Constitutional class-action suit in currently under scrutiny.
Background
Following M. v. H (1999), the Canada Pension Plan (1985) (CPP) was amended in 2000 to include survivor benefits for same-sex couples to comply with equality provisions under s. 15 of the Charter,
Section 15.
Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right […]
