Sam Michaels gets right down to work this week on the page opposite, taking three Senators to task for their well-publicized abuse of reimbursement privileges, and Senator Wallin in particular for her lawyer’s subsequent lack of tact in comments he made about a Senate motion that would suspend Wallin’s privileges of office. Michaels, in the best sort of Obiter Dicta way, exemplifies the public...
DANIEL STYLER
<Staff Writer>
Editor’s Note: there are abundant Breaking Bad spoilers below. Do not read them if you do not want to. Any complainants will be mocked at this week’s staff meeting.
DAN MOWAT-ROSE & LUKE JOHNSTON
<Contributors>
This new column will document two 3L students’ explorations in the Toronto food scene, with an eye to student budget concerns, good eating, and a exposure to a broad range of culinary experiences.
KYLIE THOMAS
<Contributor>
I intend to be as polite as possible in responding to your incredibly discourteous email you felt the need to forward to the entire class.
KAROLINA WISNIEWSKI
<Editor-in-Chief>
It’s that time again, Ozzies. The initial start-of-the-new-academic-year enthusiasm is slowly but unmistakably ebbing.
ANDREW CYR
<Sports Editor>
Canadian hockey fans had more to cheer about than usual in the lockout-shortened 2012-13 NHL season, as four Canadian teams made the playoffs for the first time in seven years.
DANIEL STYLER
<Staff Writer>
In 1996, following a loss to the New York Yankees, the long-time manager of the middling Minnesota Twins, Tom Kelly, said this about Yankees’ reliever Mariano Rivera: “We don’t need to face him anymore.
TRAVIS WEAGANT
<Editor-in-Chief>
Last year, I wrote an editorial after Québec’s provincial election
EVAN IVKOVIC
<Staff Writer>
Canadians worldwide reacted in disbelief upon hearing news of Russia’s new policy regarding tolerance of homosexuals, sexual minority groups, and allegedly non-traditional sexual propaganda.
ANGIE SHEEP
<Arts & Culture Editor>
In this issue I have decided to deviate from my usual fashion focus and speak to something that had concerned me all last year
CASS DA RE
<Editor-in-Chief>
“Have you seen that email?” said every other law student to every other law student, late last week.
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.
DAN AKINBOSEDE
<Contributor>
By now, most of you reading this are shall I say “au courant” with the incident involving a member of the Osgoode community writing an open letter of complaint to other class members regarding an issue of classroom etiquette.
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...
The importance of making a great first impression is one of those truths about the job interview that is so renowned, it has become a cliché. There is a significant amount of pressure placed on those first critical seconds of a new encounter or interview that supposedly define your relationship going forward.