JEFF MITCHELL
<Contributor>
It’s that time of the year again. With exams around the corner, Osgoode students take a seat in the Library to study. As upper years will recall, the “exam period restricted access policy” is just around the corner.
JIHEE (MARIE) PARK
<Staff Writer>
November 17th was World Prematurity Awareness Day. It may have been a singular date to give a moment to think about one of the leading causes of neonatal mortality and increased risk of a multitude of neurological, cardiovascular, and other conditions.
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>
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.
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
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.
CITLALLY MACIEL
<Staff Writer>
The story of the Prodigal Son is one of Jesus’ parables which tells the story of a son who asks his father for his inheritance and then leaves and wastes it all. He then returns home and repents.
JEFFREY HERNAEZ
<Contributor>
As stated by Chief Justice Marshall in the famous US case Marbury v Madison, “the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce their own happiness, [which] is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected.”
JIHEE (MARIE) PARK
<Staff Writer>
Even the youngest of the Osgoode student body recalls the days when the internet and communications technology first exploded in our society, pervading every aspect of everyday life from the fundamental to the mundane.
NADIA GUO <News Editor> “Cities have shape and size; they have histories, constitutions, administrations and systems; they have rhythms, bodies and buildings. They are formed with all of these elements in relation to each other to make space for dwelling, commerce, ritual and play, giving expression to memories, chronicles, secrets and desires. We can discover something about the heart...
JIHEE (MARIE) PARK <Staff Writer> More and more women are being admitted to law schools, a trend that is being observed across the country and over the past many decades. A long time ago, it was a remarkable struggle to be able to attend law school as a woman, but today the statistics show that women trump men in this calling, at least in number. Of the entering class of 2012 of the first...
TOM WILSON
<Chair, Student Caucus>
Hello again, Osgoode!
It feels like weeks since my last update as Chair of Student Caucus. In fact, it has been weeks… and what a busy fortnight it’s been!
LORNE SOSSIN <Dean> When we embarked on the Osgoode History and Archives Project (OHAP) in 2010, we wanted to focus on telling our stories as an Osgoode community. This project includes infusing those stories in the new Ignat Kaneff building (for example, through the Osgoode Then and Now niche in Gowlings Hall), in digital form (for example, through the Catalysts and Building Osgoode...
CAMILLE DUNBAR <Legal and Literary Society> On September 26, 2012, the York University Community Safety Council (CSC) held its first meeting of the 2012-13 academic year. The CSC is an advisory body and acts as the forum through which students, faculty and staff help to create a true culture of safety at York. Elena Iosef, Leeanne Footman and myself were in attendance, representing the...
CITLALLY MACIEL <Staff Writer> According to the Law Society of Upper Canada, the goal of articling is “to provide law school graduates with orientation to the “real world” of the legal profession, assist them to understand the role of lawyers in representing clients and as officers of the court, provide guidance on the ethical responsibilities they must address as they navigate their way...
NADIA GUO
<News Editor>
Following the passage of Bill 13 in the Ontario legislature, which effectively became The Accepting Schools Act (or better known as the anti-bullying act), Steve Tourloukis, a dentist and father of two, raised concerns about his children being “indoctrinated” about issues like same-sex marriage in ways contrary to his faith.
CITLALLY MACIEL <Contributor> What do a paparazzo and a gas station have in common? Well, if you have been attentive to the news lately, you may know that these refer to two events. Although seemingly different, they have brought about a series of legal questions and discussions back to the table. One is the issue of privacy, relating to some topless pictures of Kate Middleton. On the other...
JIHEE (MARIE) PARK <Contributor> Swedish researchers and doctors have successfully carried out human uterus transplants from mother to daughter. This will no doubt be cause of much talk in ethics that will force us to re-examine the acceptable limits of medical science and its technological applications. Swedish doctors and researchers are boasting about their recent accomplishment, a...
DOUGLAS JUDSON <Contributor> In July, I submitted a piece to my hometown newspapers in Northwestern Ontario. In my submission (full-text here), I explained how tremendously important it is for individuals and organizations to be deliberately accepting and welcoming of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and ally (LGBTQA) individuals, regardless of the known presence or absence of...
TOM WILSON <Chair, Student Caucus> With the start of a new year at Osgoode, I want to take this opportunity as Chair of Student Caucus to welcome everyone back and to report on Caucus’ work over the summer. First, allow me to address an age-old question: how is Student Caucus different from Legal and Lit? Here’s the long and short of it … Legal and Lit is the overarching student government...
ELENA IOSEF <Legal & Lit President> Hi everyone! My name is Elena Iosef and I am the 137th President of the Legal and Literary Society of Osgoode Hall Law School. Now that we’ve gotten the obligatory formal introduction out of the way, I would like to say that the rest of the Legal and Literary Society members and I are incredibly happy to welcome you to a new year at Osgoode! Whether...
HASSAN AHMAD <News Editor> As many students, including myself, begin the dreaded month of April, filled with stressful paper deadlines and 100% exams, it behoves us to reflect on the fact that not in the too distant future there looms the possibility of another international war. This time the primary parties seem to be America, Israel, and Iran. Since World War II, the principles of...
COMRADE SHELLZ AKA DAVE SHELLNUTT AKA BIG DAVE SHELLZ AKA STRAWBERRY FIELDS AKA PREZ AKA THAT MOFO, ETC. <Legal & Lit President> This is my last communiqué to you all. Thank goodness, thank God, thank whomever you wish. On my end it has been trying, yet rewarding to write to the student body each week. Clearly I have enough to say but I have been perpetually self-conscious about saying...