As we enter into Mental Health Awareness Week, I can’t help but observe that, while well-intentioned, it does nothing to solve the underlying problems law students face when it comes to combatting stress and anxiety, and optimizing their learning. How could it? But if this is all the institution we pay tens of thousands of dollars to each year can muster up, it leaves me feeling uneasy that our...
ALEXANDRA ILIC <Contributor> How do you interpret international news that you watch on TV or read in the newspaper? Yes, of course, you do interpret them, even though it may be unconscious. Even journalists interpret the facts before informing the world about them. Thinking about journalists as independent may be utopic, even though I like to believe that some actually are. One needs to...
ANGIE SHEEP <Arts & Culture Editor> My night class, which should have ended at 10pm, ended nearly half an hour late. As people quickly filtered out of the room, eager to get home, I stood up and marched out slowly; my bus had already departed and it was uncertain when the next one would be. This meant that I wouldn’t arrive home until 11:30pm since I live downtown. On the entire way...
CASS DA RE
<Editor-in-Chief>
Some of you might be too young (or too old) to remember the 2003 angsty-pop single by Michelle Branch, titled “Are you happy now?”
SARA HANSON
<Contributor>
You’ve probably heard the debate by now, or maybe you have participated in it.
ANGIE SHEEP
<Arts & Culture Editor>
This week’s article may be a little morbid to read as I am writing about the top regrets of the dying.
GEOFF GOODSON <Staff Writer> The enthusiasm has waned and the dinner-party has returned home, back to our cozy social circles and comfortable silences. Yet, there is still fruit left on the table, which tends to ripen and rot when left uneaten. I direct my article towards this degradation while, undeniably, admitting my own complicit role in its dissipating rot. For, in a corner, just...
KYLIE THOMAS
<Contributor>
I intend to be as polite as possible in responding to your incredibly discourteous email you felt the need to forward to the entire class.
TRAVIS WEAGANT
<Editor-in-Chief>
Last year, I wrote an editorial after Québec’s provincial election
ANGIE SHEEP
<Arts & Culture Editor>
In this issue I have decided to deviate from my usual fashion focus and speak to something that had concerned me all last year
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.
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.
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...
TRAVIS WEAGANT
<Editor-in-Chief>
1Ls and other incoming students arrived on August 29th this year, earlier than last.
CITLALLY MACIEL
<News Editor>
This piece is for you 1Ls.
MICHAEL CAPITANO
<Staff Writer>
NADIA GUO
<Staff Writer>
It’s a bad time to be studying law.
DANIEL STYLER
<Staff Writer>
Entering law school can be an overwhelming time for even the most level-headed student.
MICHAEL CAPITANO
<Staff Writer>
Law school horror stories surely have made their way to your ears by now
TRAVIS WEAGANT
<Editor-in-Chief>
I’d like to make a pitch for London. Take a drive two hours west down the 401; take exit 186, and turn right.
The fight for gay rights in Canada has been a long and difficult one, but it is undeniable that the seeds of this struggle have successfully blossomed into the fruits of increased social acceptance and legal equality. Unfortunately, it is simultaneously undeniable that while gays and lesbians may have accomplished formal equality before the law, significant strides still remain to be made with...
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NICOLAS L. FRANCIS
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HARJOT ATWAL
<Staff Writer>
HARJOT ATWAL
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