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Hope Isn’t A Strategy, But It Helps! We often hear people say things like “hope isn’t a strategy.

Let’s Do the Time Warp Again—Sexual Harassment and the Legal Profession  Social media lit up last week after a recent article in the Toronto Star titled “Sexual harassment, discrimination forcing women lawyer...

Lawyers and Family Day, 2024  Lawyers and Family Day—what a great combination! We have a profession that never has enough time, and we have a statutory holiday.

Suicide Prevention Strategies: Finding Hope and OptimismContent Warning: This blog post discusses themes of suicide. Reader discretion is advised.

Do current law school grads celebrate completion of law school with a banquet anymore? When I graduated, our banquet organizing committee arranged for a prominent Justice to deliver a keynote...

April may be the cruellest month, as TS Eliot wrote in The Wasteland, but January feels like the longest month, especially with the intense cold spell that put our electricity grid...

When we use the expression “it’s in you to give,” we are usually thinking about donating blood, something that is truly inside us and that we can give.

Associates’ Lament/I Hate Myself for Working Here: The Soundtrack of Your Life  When I was in high school in Edmonton, I had the privilege to attend Old Scona Academic High School,...

Happy 2024! I hope that you had a wonderful holiday season, whatever you celebrate and however you spent it.

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