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
<Contributor>
HARJOT ATWAL
<Staff Writer>
HARJOT ATWAL
<Staff Writer>
KAROLINA WISNIEWSKI
<Opinions Editor>
If you listened really carefully, you could probably hear the collective exasperated sigh let out by Canadian music enthusiasts at 8 pm on March 11th when the lineup for Osheaga 2013 was announced.
RORY MCGOVERN
<Staff Writer>
“You can give a man a fish and feed him for a day, or you can teach a man to fish and feed him for the rest of his life.”
KAROLINA WISNIEWSKI
<Opinions Editor>
Let’s be honest for a second: as a law student, filling your schedule with extra-curricular seminars and lectures might not seem like the most tempting way to spend free time.
CITLALLY MACIEL
<Staff Writer>
The morning news caught my attention a few days ago. A report was on about the rescue of 50 dogs that were found in a house living in deplorable conditions in Palm Springs, California.
KAROLINA WISNIEWSKI
<Opinions Editor>
As this issue goes to press, we’re (I’m?) still trying to compose ourselves after Queen B reduced us all to incapacitated, drooling, incontinent shells of our former selves just a few hours earlier.
JENN AUBREY
<Contributor>
How many times have you been sitting in class waiting for the lecture to begin while the professor attempts to turn on the electronic recording equipment at the front of the room?
JIHEE (MARIE) PARK
<Staff Writer>
A great number of Canadians wake up to coffee, and before the day ends will have had several more cups of something hot.
RORY MCGOVERN
<Staff Writer>
The idle no more protests have reminded us of the struggles which aboriginal people in Canada have and continue to endure. It has also provided us with a reminder about how important identity politics are for social cohesion.
SHARIFA KHAN
<Contributor>
The opinion piece that ran in the November 26, 2012 issue of the Obiter Dicta titled “Hamas is the chief obstacle to peace” was filled with inaccurate statements and was severely oversimplified to support the idea that peace between Israel and the Palestinians remains elusive primarily due to Hamas.