How the Leafs Budding Young Stars Performed at the World Juniors On January 5, 2021, the United States, led by promising goaltender Spencer Knight (FLA), blanked Canada 2-0 in the 2021 IIHF World Junior Championship (WJC) final, capturing their 5th title. The WJC is a fan favourite and every Boxing Day marks the beginning of an exciting tournament for both the young players and NHL front offices...
With the pandemic creating an All-Canadian NHL Division this season, we’re due for a hockey war up North Well, after a tumultuous 2020 on and off the ice, Canadian hockey fans are in store for an incredible NHL season. With that in mind, let’s tackle the newly formed Scotia™ NHL™ North Division. This division is undoubtedly a return to the NHL’s roots, as you’d have to harken all the way back to...
Welcome back to NBA basketball! The NBA regular season has started once again a mere two months after the end of the 2019-2020 season, this time on a shortened 72 game schedule due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While the NBA may have returned, the Raptors appear to remain on “vacation mode” as they begin their season with a losing record of 2-7 (at the time of writing), currently the second...
Why the right decision is seldom well-received in the NFL In their penultimate game of the 2020 season, Philadelphia Eagles’ (now former) head coach Doug Pederson made a decision that nearly sparked a revolt amongst the Eagles’ roster, cost the New York Giants a playoff spot, and left the NFL community at large in a state of moral panic. The decision under trial was the choice to bench emerging...
The international community received a welcome dose of optimism earlier this week when Moderna Inc., a Massachusetts-based biotech company, released encouraging evidence of its progress in developing a vaccine effective against COVID-19. According to early data released by the company, the Moderna vaccine has proven to be 94.5% effective against COVID-19 upon evaluation by members of the Data...
Connor Campbell is an articling student at McMillian LLP in Toronto, Ontario, and Editor Emeritus of Obiter Dicta. Connor previously served as a staff illustrator for Obiter during his 1L year at Osgoode, before serving as Editor-in-Chief during his 2L and 3L years. Connor was also the staff cartoonist for The Varsity, the school paper at the University of Toronto. Connor graduated from Osgoode...
Stocks chosen for their adherence to environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics have been underperforming the wider equity market. ETFs (exchange-traded funds) focused on buying ESG stocks are performing at their worst levels since the summer of 2019, and short sellers are cashing-in. ESG investing has long been purported as a viable strategy to encourage corporations to move from...
Ant Group Co., commonly known as the proprietor behind Alipay, was set to mark an IPO record if its planned listing for November 5th on Hong Kong and Shanghai exchanges proceeded. The name “Ant”, chosen to represent the fact that the payment-processing-platform will accept even the smallest payments, is certainly not representative of the firm’s latest capital raising arrangement. Ant has lined...
Earlier this week, the Ethiopian military launched a military offensive into its Northern region of Tigray. Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, stated that the offensive was in response to an attack on a federal military base in the region. Abiy claims that a regional political group, the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), is behind the attacks. Abiy’s military offensive has many...
In 2016, Donald Trump, on his path to becoming the 45th President of the United States, made many significant promises pertaining to the Middle East. Trump boldly stated that he would “utterly destroy ISIS,” “tear up” the Iran nuclear deal, move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem, and bring peace to the one of the most complex and historically violent regions on Earth. Four...
How Each Crisis that Engulfed 2020 was Predictable and Foreseen In 2007, Nassim Nicholas Taleb published his seminal piece, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, to great commercial success and critical acclaim. The book, among other things, told the story of a popular assumption that remained nestled in the minds of ‘Old World’ citizens until the late 17th century: that all swans...
Let’s go back to January. You know, before this whole COVID thing happened. On Tuesday cheap nights, some friends and I would have the entire day planned out. We’d finish our lectures, do whatever readings we had, and then: movie time. We’d try to book something that sounded remotely good for around 8. Then, we would head out a bit early to grab Five Guys, a staple in our movie night experience...
With exam season looming, it seemed like a good time for another recommendation list to help Osgoode’s students get through this stranger than usual study period. While I have watched 10 seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race since the beginning of the semester, I still somehow found time for a few other things that I wanted to recommend here. Good luck with exams! TV Show – Pen15 Season 2 (CBC...
As I watched Justina Machado’s Penelope Alvarez fail to get her oblivious son to help her with groceries in One Day at a Time, it struck me how relatable the show truly is. The exact scene has played out hundreds of times with my own little brother, headphones in and video game on, oblivious to my mother asking for his help. It was a small moment, but it reminded me of the appeal of sitcoms, of...
Exam season is closely upon us and that means less time and motivation to prepare full meals. While not all students live alone and some do have the convenience of having their loved ones take care of meal prep, some of us don’t have that luxury. Keeping up with regular meals is important but it is especially important during exam season. We need fuel to keep going during long summary building...
Haydn’s music occupies a somewhat awkward place in the classical repertoire. Most musicians and listeners would include Haydn in the pantheon of great composers. But fewer, I think, would list him among their personal favourites, or their selections of the “greatest of the great” (see, e.g., the New York Times music critic Anthony Tommasini’s top 10 from 2011). Although he is by no means...
One of the principal thrills of undergraduate study is the titillation of pushing the envelope – of becoming learned with one foot still planted firmly in the realm of childish bashfulness. I recall, for instance, school newspapers in undergrad that looked like their mainstream counterparts, but which featured foul language and spoke of lascivious happenings. The impressionable eighteen-year-old...
A Non-Exhaustive List of 2020’s Best Projects from Black Artists Lianne La Havas – Lianne La Havas A heart-wrenching tour de force, the third studio album from UK singer-songwriter Lianne La Havas is easily her best. This self-titled project is a concept album about the culmination of a long-term relationship and documents Lianne’s efforts to grapple with feelings of loneliness, sadness...
Lance Armstrong, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, and Ben Johnson are just a few of the many decorated athletes known to have used performance enhancing drugs (PEDs). These athletes are now considered “cheaters”, shunned for the use of PEDs to achieve a chemical advantage in their respective sports. They violated the rules, the trust of their fans and colleagues, and the spirit of sport. Over recent...
Last week, the glass ceiling was shattered by a baseball. The Miami Marlins announced they would be hiring Kim Ng as their general manager, making her the first woman in men’s professional sports to hold the title. The decision was showered with praise across the sports world (including congratulations from Michelle Obama), as it’s a move that some may have never seen coming and simultaneously...
From the Case Log of Sydney Scofflaw, Osgoode Student So maybe that stuff over the summer was a bit of bad luck; transporting to everywhere where my actions would be criminal. Took a bit of explaining, but I managed to get out of trial cleared of all charges. (Don’t ask about the horse.) But maybe…maybe that means there’s another way around it. If I can get the machine to actually work the other...
With the December exam period closing in, desperation is setting in among the ranks of the 1Ls. For some, years of hard-fought academic success and aspirations for the almighty ‘A’ are being crushed under the oppressive weight of a curve they have yet to even experience. Scores of once cheery-eyed and optimistic students have faced first-hand the pain and suffering of no longer being at the top...
You may be surprised to learn that Snapchat was not profitable until nearly two years after its IPO – that is, until the third quarter of 2020 when it beat analysts’ estimates on revenue and finally generated a profit of US $0.01 per share (1.23 billion shares outstanding). Snap beat estimates for Q3 by $127 million, generating $679 million and narrowing its net loss from $227 million to $200...
Introduction I often start my emails with the phrase, “I hope this email finds you well”. In the time of COVID-19, however, wellness has come to mean something entirely different altogether. On days where I feel ‘well’, I am clocking in 9-to-5 and mustering up the energy to turn on my camera for virtual classes. On days where I don’t feel well, I am rolling out of bed five minutes before class—if...