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Senators behaving badly

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Sam Michaels gets right down to work this week on the page opposite, taking three Senators to task for their well-publicized abuse of reimbursement privileges, and Senator Wallin in particular for her lawyer’s subsequent lack of tact in comments he made about a Senate motion that would suspend Wallin’s privileges of office. Michaels, in the best sort of Obiter Dicta way, exemplifies the public...

Jurisfoodence: Kinton Ramen

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DAN MOWAT-ROSE & LUKE JOHNSTON
<Contributors>
This new column will document two 3L students’ explorations in the Toronto food scene, with an eye to student budget concerns, good eating, and a exposure to a broad range of culinary experiences.

Puck Prognistications

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ANDREW CYR
<Sports Editor> 
Canadian hockey fans had more to cheer about than usual in the lockout-shortened 2012-13 NHL season, as four Canadian teams made the playoffs for the first time in seven years. 

Exit Sandman

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DANIEL STYLER
<Staff Writer> 
In 1996, following a loss to the New York Yankees, the long-time manager of the middling Minnesota Twins, Tom Kelly, said this about Yankees’ reliever Mariano Rivera: “We don’t need to face him anymore.

Law as a House

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SAM MICHAELS
<Contributor>
With only two weeks of law school behind me, and the recoil of this seemingly monumental career leap still reverberating, I thought now would be a good time to take a stab at the question which has so clearly dominated my time at Osgoode so far.

Ditch the Trash, Keep the Ashbin

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DAN AKINBOSEDE
<Contributor>

By now, most of you reading this are shall I say “au courant” with the incident involving a member of the Osgoode community writing an open letter of complaint to other class members regarding an issue of classroom etiquette.

Collateral Damage: The Syrian Refugee Crisis

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BRITT GUNN
<Contributor>
Since the August 21 sarin gas attack outside Damascus, international headlines on the civil war that has been raging in Syria for two and a half years have been dominated by the deal brokered by the United States and Russia to dismantle the Syrian regime’s stock of chemical weapons.

Homeless and Drunk in Law School

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GEOFF GOODSON <Contributor> Law school starts in three days.  There are prostitutes around me– I give them some cigarettes and ask if I can sit in their corner, which is strewn with clothing, garbage and discarded needles.  They fidget and banter, fidget and banter.  I hug my knees drunkenly against the barrier, watching them crush up crack and inject it into their feet.  I don’t know...

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