Earlier this summer, I attended Pride Toronto, an annual festival celebrating the queer community that attracts three million people to its events. Pride Toronto kicks off a wave of pride festivals across Canada throughout the summer. While I’m not a member of the 2SLGBTQI+ community, it feels very important to show support for those who...Read More

Children dressed in suits, we drive silently. The one kid slides in a cassette tape and I hear it for the first time, a song I will listen to for the rest of my life in a trance, o’ let the sun beat down upon my face, as I look out the window. I don’t...Read More

At a recent conference in Montreal, individuals and organizations involved in access to justice across the country gathered to present current research, share initiatives, and build a strong foundation of knowledge. The conference was grounded in a people-centred approach to access to justice, shaped in part by the OECD Framework and Good Practice Principles for...Read More

On August 17, 2014, fifteen-year-old Tina Fontaine was found dead in Winnipeg’s Red River. It had been over two weeks since Tina was reported missing. Among the more disturbing details of Tina’s death was the fact that in the twenty-four hours prior to her disappearance, she had been seen by child welfare workers, healthcare professionals,...Read More

If you need to research legislation in British Columbia, Gail Nash’s publication Legislation Made Easy has now been made freely available on BC Laws.  This publication, well known to law librarians, is “a guide to the complexities of the various aspects of statutes, regulations and orders.” It covers such things as the legislative process, how...Read More

Shutting down her computer for the day, Mary noticed how anxious she was. Yet again, she had received no feedback on the legal opinion she had drafted for the partner, and she was beginning to worry if her job was in jeopardy. In law firms, far too often, “no news is good news.” You will...Read More

Preamble When students at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law (“LASL” or “the school”) sent a controversial letter (“the letter” or “the October 20th letter”) to the LASL administration, a letter which became public, about the Israel-Hamas conflict, Metropolitan Toronto University (“MTU” or “the University”) filed a complaint under TMU Senate Policy 61, the Student...Read More

Preamble When students at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law (“LASL” or “the school”) sent a controversial letter (“the letter” or “the October 20th letter”) to the LASL administration, a letter which became public, about the Israel-Hamas conflict, Metropolitan Toronto University (“MTU” or “the University”) filed a complaint under TMU Senate Policy 61, the Student...Read More

Preamble When students at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law (“LASL” or “the school”) sent a controversial letter (“the letter” or “the October 20th letter”) to the LASL administration, a letter which became public, about the Israel-Hamas conflict, Metropolitan Toronto University (“MTU” or “the University”) filed a complaint under TMU Senate Policy 61, the Student...Read More

I have almost certainly been treated differently at different times because I was a man, a Canadian, a lawyer, or an Asian. Sometimes it is impossible, and fruitless, to point at one thing or another. Nonetheless I think I can tell some stories of what it has meant to be an Asian lawyer, especially in...Read More