Unless you are one of those legendary litigators who focuses on court and leaves all of their writing to someone else, lawyers spend a lot of time writing. It would be wonderful if legal and professional writing escaped the demons of creative writing, but in my experience, the demons of procrastination and self-doubt and the...Read More

In July of last year, Canada’s three research-funding agencies set out to improve public and academic access to the studies they sponsor. Open access to research and scholarship is proving to be the digital era’s great gift to science, and all the more so, following open access’ contributions to Covid vaccine development during the pandemic....Read More

“All people want and need to be Heard, Seen and Loved” (HSL). — In That Order — The Dalai Lama (Note 1) The Youth Voices Initiative (sponsored by the BC Family Justice Innovation Lab Society) is a youth-led group that has been working for over 7 years to advocate for children’s right to have their...Read More

Quit the AI theatrics and get on with the business of legal service. I’ve had it. Had it with the legal industry’s incessant blither blather, adjective-laden hyperbole, and histrionic pearl-clutching – hello, law firms – pertaining to the perils and rarely the pluses of artificial intelligence. The continuous and roiling notions around AI, its impact...Read More