Car-window smashing in Hamilton: A microcosm of archaic approaches to community problem solving At the risk of sounding like a familiar graphic t-shirt or hoodie: Hamilton is my home. I moved to the city in 2017, drawn to the blackened, flaming chimneys that straddle Nikola Tesla Boulevard, and line the shore of the harbour. Though the sight of the factories touched a deep-seated awe for human...
Note: For those readers looking for more information on the Jake Paul and David Dobrik apologies, please note that they discuss suicide and sexual assault, respectively. In a previous article, I briefly addressed my proclivity for YouTuber apology videos and while I do not engage with the content created by those mentioned in this article, I find their apologies fascinating. This is still an...
I was spending time with some of my friends over the weekend, with the intention of watching holiday movies while consuming the occasional libation. After consuming more than intended—prior to watching anything—we inevitably came to the debate of which movie to watch. We all suggested some of our favourites, which were hotly debated, before we eventually settled on putting several ideas in a hat...
As much as it currently pains me to say it—while floating in the endless ether of law school readings—I really do love to read. Specifically, I love physical books, and more specifically than that, I love second-hand books. There is something special about an old book; maybe it’s the names of its owners scrawled behind the cover, maybe it’s the prose underlined in red pen, or maybe it’s the dirty...
Simply put, I’m a bit ignorant of pop culture. I’m terribly lazy when it comes to mustering the focus required to invest in a new show, and almost faint when someone tells me I must start watching something that is already several seasons and hundreds of hours deep. With attention smothering inventions like YouTube, I find it far easier to spend ten hours watching Youtuber apologies than to get...
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m late to the party. By now, the wreaths of carnations have dried, the mourners have drowned their sorrows with new ones, and the bus stations of Canada have been repopulated with scrappy upstarts. The public transit I rely on to commute between Hamilton, Toronto, and Osgoode has gotten me thinking about an old—and sometimes reliable—friend. If it’s not too much...
The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice (CFCJ) at Osgoode Hall Law School has been dedicated to access to justice research and advocacy since it first opened its doors seventeen years ago. In keeping with this mandate, CFCJ Senior Research Fellow, Dr. Albert Currie, recently released an evaluation report on the Halton Community Legal Services’ (HCLS) Legal Health Check-Up (LHC) pilot project; an...