MICHAEL CAPITANO
<Contributor>
During law school, it’s easy to lose sight of oneself. As exams approach and the craziness of 1L weighs on our minds, I find myself going through old things that I’ve written.
Movember
If you haven’t already, head over to the Osgoode team’s mo space and make a donation to support prostate cancer research.
RICARDO GOLEC
<Website Editor>
I really like procrastinating. A lot. In fact, I’m doing it right now. In order to feel less bad about it, I’ve endeavoured this year to try to rationalize my procrastination by way of increasingly hare-brained schemes to “learn” by not learning. Obviously I’ve had varying degrees of success.
ANDREW CYR
<Sports Editor>
As the temperatures drop and the days get shorter, many people’s thoughts shift to the splendor of fall foliage, changes in their wardrobe, and the inevitable approach of winter (and exams). For me, however, the cold, crisp, autumn air means just one thing. It’s football season.
ERIN HUDSON
<CUP Québec Bureau Chief>
MONTREAL (CUP) — On Nov. 2, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, former spokesperson for the Coalition large de l’Association pour une Solidarité Syndicale Étudiante (CLASSÉ), announced his decision to appeal the guilty verdict handed down the day before by Judge Denis Jacques.
TRAVIS WEAGANT
<Co-Editor-in-Chief>
Children often find war difficult to understand, so we explain it to them by simplifying it into a “good vs. evil” narrative where two camps hate each other so much they want to kill each other. You can imagine then, how much more difficult it is to explain the more complicated aspects of armed conflict
TRAVIS WEAGANT
<Co-Editor-in-Chief>
Thomas, a friend of mine, once told me a story about his grandmother and Remembrance Day. Remembrance Day was first observed in the inter-war period in Great Britain. November 11th, Armistice Day, seemed a fitting day to commemorate the vast human tragedy of the Great War
CECIL ROTENBERG
<Contributor>
Canada’s immigration policy and legislation changes are taking place so fast that some people jokingly say that Immigration Minister Jason Kenney suffers from Attention Deficit Disorder. Even immigration professionals are confounded by the speed at which the immigration system is being overhauled.
RORY MCGOVERN
<Contributor>
When I was 24 and travelling in Europe I had the displeasure of meeting a man named Bond… James Bond.
JIHEE (MARIE) PARK
<Staff Writer>
Apart from the other news stories and the week of gloomy weather Sandy has presented us, her sweep across the continent has presented us with a unique question. In New York, residents whose power and cell phone reception went down had to rely on public pay phones
Ricardo Golec
<Website Editor>
Hey, I think we should allow tweeting in court! Need to bring legal profession to 21st century, make justice accessi… bit.ly/CourtTweets
– @rickgolec
On November 27th, join Justice Marshall Rothstein of the Supreme Court of Canada for a presentation on the Court’s 2012 copyright decisions.
LEEANNE FOOTMAN
<Contributor>
On October 19, six representatives of your Legal and Literary Society and Student Caucus attended a two-day conference at Queen’s University, put on by the Queen’s Law Student Society. The conference invited representatives of student government from all six of Ontario’s law schools with a goal of creating a draft constitution
Just kidding. Newspapers can’t grow facial hair. But they can encourage it.
With the American election resolved and the President re-elected, the question now becomes what to expect in a second Obama term, and what its implications are for Canada. To be sure, the President retained his position decisively in the Electoral College, but won much more narrowly in the popular vote.
CITLALLY MACIEL
<Staff Writer>
Rejoice, my fellow James Bond fans! This year marks the golden anniversary of the first film’s release.
NADIA GUO
<News Editor>
“My first inclination that a war on drugs was folly came when I was very young, in private school studying the Bible.
ANGIE SHEEP
<Staff Writer>
One of the most celebrated occasions of the year has finally crept up: Happy Halloween! With only a few days remaining to prepare for what I think should be a legitimate holiday, I hope your costumes are all ready to go.
MAX PATERSON
<Arts & Culture Editor>
It’s that time of year again, the time we dust off those “sexy” [fill in anything here] costumes, call up all of our ‘non-law’ friends, and go out for one last big night before the realities of assignments, papers and pre-exam note compiling begins.
NADIA GUO
<News Editor>
Following a fairly decadent Friday night out at the Hoxton to catch the Flight Facilities’ set, I was glad I had something more low-key planned for Saturday: I had a ticket to see Chan Marshall, better known by her stage name, Cat Power.
TRAVIS WEAGANT
<Co-Editor-in-Chief>
I am a Hallowe’en Grinch. I don’t know when it happened, but I suspect it was when I stopped getting a bag full of free candy every year. With the material profitability of the day eliminated, I could see no other way to derive a net benefit from dressing strangely.
KATHERINE DECLERQ
<CUP Ontario Bureau Chief>
Reprinted from Canadian University Press.
OTTAWA (CUP) — On Oct. 15, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced some shocking news — he was resigning.
NADIA GUO
<News Editor>
The JCR bar opened again tonight much to the delight of the overworked and sleep-deprived everywhere in Osgoode. “Another great reason to procrastinate” was the general consensus of people I spoke to, and don’t we all need those from time to time to retain our precarious sanities.
MICHAEL CAPITANO
<Contributor>
On October 3, 2012, the Osgoode Society for Corporate Governance (OSCG) held its inaugural event, “Corporate Governance Beyond Borders”, a panel discussion on corporate governance in emerging markets with two internationally-renowned experts on corporate governance:
CASS DA RE
<Features Editor>
Law school doesn’t leave much time for fun and childish endeavors. Law students don’t need werewolves, witches and warlocks to induce fears, trembling, and sweaty palms. Just ask the first years who just went through their first set of midterms.