Last Friday, Hicks Morley hosted a moot at Osgoode — just like last year. I competed with Jeff Adams — just like last year. We made it to the final round in the Moot Court room, and Hicks treated Osgoode students to dinner at Osteria Da Geppetto (Sud Forno) — just like last year. But last Friday, there was a striking difference: John Kloosterman was not there. Because...
An Interview with Uriel, from lawstudents.ca Introduction If you were to take a Facebook comment thread, anonymize the users, narrow the subject matter, adopt in-group acronyms, outdate the web design, and convince the users they could improve their prospects of university acceptance or a job by posting vigorously, then you would have something resembling lawstudents.ca. How did the site become...
On January 3rd, 2018, I went to visit a friend, Simon, at North York General Hospital. We met in high school at De La Salle College (‘Del’), where he was a year behind me. Simon had beaten cancer once, before coming to Del. I spoke to him over the summer, when his osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer, was back. This time, he said it was terminal. I started law school in September. I...
Reflections from Someone Still Learning to Lead If you come by the Obiter office often enough, I will probably try to show you a video called “Give Me Compliments.” It was made by Kollectivet, a group of musically inclined German comics. The video is absurd; it went viral on Instagram years ago; and its premise is simple. The singer wants compliments for the simplest, most quotidian tasks...
Why Obiter is Here After All these Years Connor Campbell – Editor-in-Chief MODERATELY IMMATURE DELIGHT – that’s the essence of Obiter. I sat down the other day to chat with a good friend (who also edits the paper). We spoke about anything except school, and we happened on that apt description of Obiter’s ethos. It came up when I was trying to describe why, with everything else we do, we...