On Thursday, March 13, the third-annual Wendy Babcock Drag Show exploded onto the stage in the JCR, covering all present in glitter, mascara, and Bambino. This year’s incarnation was hilarious, inspiring, and – most importantly – entertaining. The night kicked off with a video produced by Quinn Harris of Mock Trial fame. The film documented some goings-on in the first-floor men’s room, including...
This is the second of two parts of an Olympic post-mortem (read the first part here), in which I arbitrarily assign ranks to the participating countries. Following the 2012 Summer Games in London, I published a story in the Obiter declaring Grenada to be the Winner of the Olympics. I realize that this was an arbitrary designation, but it was not entirely unfounded. I developed a method of...
In this, the first of a two-part Olympic post-mortem, I take a historic opportunity to bloviate at length about Canada’s forgotten talent. I’m not going to explain the game. If you want to know how to curl, take the 90 seconds to look it up on Wikipedia. To an outsider, cricket and American football are difficult to understand, but there’s no use pretending that the roaring game is hard to learn...
On February 12 and 13, some of the most committed Ozzies around put their talents together and put on a spectacular revue of the best legal humour in North York. This Editor attended the Thursday night performance, which is typically the rowdier event. The packed Moot Court room did not disappoint. Business Manager and performer Brendan Monahan reported before the show that there were no tickets...
If you have Facebook, you’ve done it. If you’ve procrastinated, you’ve done it. I can say with confidence that nearly everyone who reads this article has fallen prey to clickbait at least once. I certainly have. But I’m finished; no more. Clickbait, as far as I can tell, has run its course. Teshkeel Media Group bought Cracked magazine in 2005. The company moved the flagging publication, which Sol...
According to information received by Obiter Dicta this week, the Legal and Literary Society’s 2013-14 budget includes an operating deficit of $22 825. Approved unanimously at a special September 12 meeting, the budget includes categorized revenues and expenditures for, among other things, clubs and major L&L events throughout the year. Legal and Lit’s constitution requires publication of the...
TRAVIS WEAGANT <Editor-in-Chief> I thought I was becoming an elitist when I booked the tickets. How does this read: third-year law student takes a trip on Thanksgiving weekend to a world-class Shakespeare festival, sees two productions, enjoys a dinner at a restaurant that requires reservations weeks in advance, and spends an afternoon perusing boutique chocolate and book shops. “Shit,” I...
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I’d like to make a pitch for London. Take a drive two hours west down the 401; take exit 186, and turn right.
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Last Wednesday evening, the JCR bustled with the sounds and sight of many Ozzies sharing their artistic talents.
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On January 11, some of my wisdom was lost, which I can only assume will make me more unreasonable. It was taken directly out of my jaw. Being subsequently barred from physical exertion for a few days, I took to the couch, where painkillers and movies awaited.
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This morning, I entered Obiter Dicta’s secret archive of back issues (it’s in our porn folder). I re-read my own predictions for 2012, and was surprised to discover just how wrong I was about most things, and how marginally right I was about some things.
In these pages lies Student Caucus (SC)’s response to the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC)’s Pathways Report on the future of articling. It is a commendable and articulate effort, to be sure, especially in view of a rather tight deadline, which the response notes. But alas! I’ve been forgotten again.
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Children often find war difficult to understand, so we explain it to them by simplifying it into a “good vs. evil” narrative where two camps hate each other so much they want to kill each other. You can imagine then, how much more difficult it is to explain the more complicated aspects of armed conflict
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Thomas, a friend of mine, once told me a story about his grandmother and Remembrance Day. Remembrance Day was first observed in the inter-war period in Great Britain. November 11th, Armistice Day, seemed a fitting day to commemorate the vast human tragedy of the Great War
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I am a Hallowe’en Grinch. I don’t know when it happened, but I suspect it was when I stopped getting a bag full of free candy every year. With the material profitability of the day eliminated, I could see no other way to derive a net benefit from dressing strangely.
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I first saw singer-songwriter Andrew O’Brien in February 2011 as part of Canadian Music Week, right here in Toronto, and I’ve made a point not to miss him ever since. I saw him again last fall at the Free Times Café on College St, and on September 28, he returned to Free Times in fine form.
TRAVIS WEAGANT <Editor-in-Chief> Once upon a time, in France, my roommates and I got drunk and watched the Olympics. The end. Or, at least, that could have been the end. That should have been the end. But it wasn’t. It’s common sense that just because the United States wins the most medals at the Olympic Games doesn’t mean they’re the most gifted athletic nation on Earth. It’s also clear...
TRAVIS WEAGANT <Editor-in-Chief> I knew throughout my entire 8 months as a 1L that the summer of 2012 would be the last summer of my life. I don’t mean to say that I plan on departing this world before June 2013, but rather that the rest of my tenure as a postsecondary student is quite deliberately scheduled: 2L, summer at a law firm, 3L, bar exam, articles, real life. Not that this is...
TRAVIS WEAGANT <Staff Writer> I’d say it’s been quite a year, but I’m not so sure. You see, this is my first time around the block at Osgoode, and I’ve got no point of comparison. Ask me again in March 2013, and I’ll tell you what kind of year 2011-12 was. Nonetheless, I think I can make a few objective statements about our collective experience that began seven months ago. We have a badass...