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...
Emblematic of the City’s failure to protect individuals experiencing homelessness Recently, 14 applicants, each of whom have been experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic, filed a lawsuit against the City of Toronto (Black et al v City of Toronto, 2020, ONSC 6398). One of the applicants, Mr. Cullen, was forced to use his Canadian Emergency Relief Benefit (CERB) to pay for hotels...
If countries can’t work together to decarbonize the economy and fight climate change, it is unlikely that the states will meet global pledges to emissions reductions in the Paris Agreement. This is nowhere more evident and worrisome than in US-China relations. Global warming is in large part a US-China problem; the two countries combined account for 43% of worldwide carbon emissions. Relations...
Canada Marks a Grim Military Anniversary On February 25th, we Canadians marked the 30th anniversary of a military massacre committed in our names that many in the West are completely unaware of – with critical details buried by the press at the time and little to no media or political attention since. The assault, launched by combined US, Canadian, French and British forces, resulted in the...
It may surprise you that many composers continue to write music in the classical tradition, broadly construed. One possible reason for the belief that the development of classical music ended some time ago is the “classical” label itself, which suggests that the category is historical. As well, it doesn’t help that “contemporary classical” is not really a coherent genre. Composers are engaging...
I woke up this morning groggy as usual. I showered, brushed my teeth, threw on a pair of sweatpants and a hoodie, and begrudgingly walked downstairs to start working. Eight hours later I returned upstairs, watched a few hours of mindless television, then surrendered back to my bedroom, feeling thankful, but resentful, that I made it through another day that felt like it was filled with absolutely...
Music school demands much from every student, but for some, it takes far more than it gives. An undergraduate degree in violin, cello, or piano performance is unlike any other major. To be accepted into an arts or sciences program, you must show, at the very least, good grades, but in the case of music school, prospective students are required to have already dedicated their entire...
“The only way to make sense of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts With the continuous change in circumstances and the associated routines and emotions, it can be really difficult to keep adapting to new demands. I have found this to be especially true over the last few months with the overwhelming sense of responsibilities that arise...
March has finally arrived. March has always been my favourite time of the year because of the excitement surrounding the NCAA Basketball March Madness tournament. From a young age, my dad would print out the brackets and we would fill them out by hand. We would then track our success throughout the tournament with red X’s and blue circles. As I grew up, the pen and paper brackets evolved into...
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The NHL season is just over twenty games old, and yet you can already make a strong case for certain players to win this year’s Hart Trophy for the NHL’s Most Valuable Player. Some, such as Edmonton Oilers star Connor McDavid who was crowned League MVP in 2017, are no strangers to this conversation. Other contenders, such as Jonathan Huberdeau, find themselves in uncharted waters. Below is a look...
Chelsea and United’s scoreless draw highlights the lack of fizzle in recent years As Chelsea gritted their way to a goalless draw at Stamford Bridge that saw them share the points with a visiting Manchester United, I was left a little deflated. As a Blues fan myself, I wasn’t happy that we had once again failed to win at home against United— a recurring trend since 2017. The post-match...