It’s hard to believe that we’re nearly at the end of the academic year, and while that is a relief in many ways, it means that we have to confront the beast once more: finals. It’s time to scream at yourself for not having taken better notes in class, fire up the ol’ L&L database, and get to work. And so, I have compiled an ever-so-carefully curated playlist of classical music to...
A Recap of the 2021 NBA Trade Deadline The NBA trade deadline day has always been a nerve-wracking day for NBA fans waiting to see whether their favourite players will be traded. For Raptors fans, this year’s trade deadline had the potential to be franchise-altering with the possibility of trading both franchise star and GROAT (Greatest Raptor of All Time) Kyle Lowry and long-time Raptor Norman...
Staff Writer Luke Giffen Reflects on his NHL Predictions and Takes Us Back Through What’s Been a Truly Bizarre, One-of-a-Kind NHL Season As we move well past the halfway point of this strange NHL season, I thought it would be a good idea to look back on how my predictions stacked up from when the season first began. Also, I’ll recap the multitude of interesting stories that have popped up along...
Boxer Marvelous Marvin Hagler passed away on March 13, 2021. He had his name legally changed to “Marvelous” after announcers did not refer to his nickname. He was marvelous in the ring and was considered one of the “Four Kings” of his generation of boxers, which included Thomas Hearns, Roberto Durán, and Sugar Ray Leonard. I love the sport of boxing, and it’s taught me some transferrable skills...
Why we ought to give the future HOFer his flowers while he is still here As the adage goes, you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. For a brief moment in time, Raptors fans were given no choice but to stare into the unknown and envision a world without Kyle Lowry. The whirlwind of a nine-game losing streak, talks of a rebuild in the media, and rumours of a frugal real estate transaction...
Innovation has been the defining feature in equipping the international community to fight back against COVID-19. As the race for a vaccine shaped much of last year and as vaccinations continue to ramp up across the world this year, it has become increasingly vital to contextualize the strategy of the different players in the intellectual property and pharmaceutical patent scene. In particular...
The microeconomics and internal workings of our securities markets and exchanges are incredibly complex, and few know anything beyond that – even the most sophisticated of current investors. If the world of investing were isolated, then the obscurity of its nature would not be entirely concerning. But the reality is that much of society’s infrastructure – literally and figuratively – is tied up...
When families are unable to sort out their issues and take them to court, someone is going to win and the other will lose. Likely, the loser will be ordered to pay some amount in costs to the other party. This is what happened to Mr. Ryan Phelps in Phelps v Childs, 2021 ONSC 1468 when he tried to appeal an order from Abrams J. dated June 11, 2019. The Appellant, Mr. Phelps was ordered to return...
In the summer of 2019, the York Regional Police arrested approximately nine people with alleged links to the ‘Ndrangheta, an Italian mafia clan. In an operation called “Project Sindacato,” the police raided various locations seizing 27 homes, 23 sports cars, 11 gaming houses, gambling machines, luxury liquors, jewelry, and cash. By the time the raids came to an end, nearly $35 million in goods...
On February 24th, 2021, a German court sentenced Eyad al-Gharib, a former member of the Syrian regime’s intelligence service, to four and a half years in prison for aiding and abetting the torture of civilians. The court stated that the defendant had arrested at least 30 anti-government protestors at the beginning of the conflict in 2011, sending them to a facility where he knew torture takes...
will the Roaring 20’s lead to a burning of the next decades to come? According to Wall Street, Washington, and Ottawa economists, many consumers are sitting on piles of pandemic savings that is prompting the possible prospect of a post-covid boom. Even in the last few weeks, vaccine distribution has increased and retail sales have jumped. This is said to be a result of months of lockdown induced...
I. Ontario’s Ag-Gag Legislation On June 18, 2020, Ontario’s Security from Trespass and Protecting Food Safety Act (“the Act”) received Royal Assent. Some provisions of the Act came into force on September 2, with the remaining provisions of the Act and its Regulation coming into force on December 5, 2020. The Act creates provisions specific to places where farm animals are kept and...
I recently re-read the Pulitzer-prize winning Evicted by Matthew Desmond for my property class. Desmond truly does an incredible job providing a lens into the lives of the renters that he details, specifically in the way he traces the cyclical nature of eviction faced by many Americans today. I would recommend Evicted to anyone regardless, but Desmond leaves a lot on the table when it comes to...
On July 1, 2021, Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella will retire from the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”). Justice Abella, the first Jewish woman and former refugee to sit on Canada’s highest court, will step down after 17 years at the Court, and 45 years as a judge. Before her appointment to the SCC, she served on the Ontario Family Court and Ontario Court of Appeal. In the coming months...
This year, with a longer than usual eligibility period and closed theatres preventing traditional premieres and releases, the Oscars nominations look very different. Regardless of how the actual awards pan out, the big winner seems to be diversity, with historic nominations for actors of colour in nearly every category. It’s truly amazing that in the nearly one hundred year history of the Oscars...
What began as an exploration of Canadian cuisine became an deeply personal and moving family history Chop Suey is a personal favourite of mine, and a few years ago, I decided to track down the origin of this quintessentially Chinese-Canadian cuisine. I found that story in Ann Hui’s book, Chop Suey Nation. I recently found myself re-reading Chop Suey Nation and immersed in the narrative Hui...
It is often remarked that Prokofiev’s music started out spiky, and became more lyrical and harmonically conservative later on—especially after his return to Russia in the mid-1930s. While many of the earlier works are angular (e.g., the Scythian Suite) and many of the later works (e.g., Romeo and Juliet) are unabashedly melodious, there are also plenty of pieces that defy this categorization. For...
I have known my friend Mike (real name withheld) for about ten years. We grew up together attending the same summer camp, and then we spent four more years in Montreal completing our undergraduate degrees. For as long as I have known him, Mike has bought, sold, and traded sports cards. And for as long as he has been collecting, I have been telling him to stop wasting his money. Of course...
Osgoode teams crowned champions, reach semi-finals, among 26 teams across North America in National Sports Moot hosted by U of T On March 13th, Osgoode Hall sent two teams (virtually) to the annual Hockey Arbitration Competition of Canada, hosted by the University of Toronto. This year’s Osgoode teams were executive members from the Osgoode Entertainment & Sports Law Association, Jordan Kazan...
When Thomas Tuchel first joined up with a struggling Chelsea squad, he vowed to make them into a team that no one enjoyed playing against. Given their dire form at the time, most probably wrote off this task as one that would have to wait until the following season when Tuchel had come to grips with the rollercoaster nature of Premier League life. However, the rangy German has proved himself to...
The unfolding of the COVID-19 pandemic has made 2020 a year to forget for businesses and industries alike. One of the hardest hit by the pandemic seems to be the live sports and entertainment industry. Many professional sports leagues have been postponed or cancelled, and only those with healthy financial resources or lucrative TV broadcasting contracts have survived. For smaller corporations...
On February 26th, Health Canada officially approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine (called ChAdOx1) following clinical trials that displayed a 62.1% efficacy rate in reducing symptomatic cases of COVID-19. Health Canada’s approval followed a series of national regulators authorizing the vaccine for administration across the EU, the UK, India and Mexico. Through a global vaccine-sharing...
Ryan: Hi all — since many of our 1L and 2L staff members and readers are in the midst of planning their summers, I thought it would be good for us to reflect on our 1L and 2L summers and provide some perspective. I’ll start by asking about the differences between the summer after 1L and the summer after 2L. How did you approach the two? Did anyone do the 1L recruit? Laura: I certainly felt...
In Part 1 featured in Issue 8 we endeavored to explore on a high level the nature of SPACs and how they operate. In Part 2, we will be your guide through a select few current examples of SPACs on the marketplace. Feel free to jump ahead to a particular SPAC that’s interesting, or read them all – but in any case, be sure to note the common motivations behind creating the SPAC, as well as the...
On 8 September 2020, the United States Air Force announced that it would award a contract worth $13.3 billion to the Northrop Grumman Corporation to construct new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) able to travel at least 9600km at a speed of Mach 23 (7889 m/sec). They plan on ultimately buying 600 missiles for a total cost of approximately $100 billion. It is no secret that the US’s...