How corruption in Russia, and the civil and political breakdown of the Ukraine have drowned the lingering high of the Olympics, and sobered the global community before the athletes had even returned home. When the Olympics wrapped up in 2010, it seemed like the emotional high of Vancouver had wafted right across the country, leaving Canadians with a happy hangover we were all too content to let...
During reading week, I had the opportunity to travel to Prague to visit a good friend of mine, and of course, to do research for my Entertainment and Sports law seminar paper. PIERA SAVAGE <Contributor> I’d been to Prague a few months before, in late August, when it was still quite warm, and had fallen in love with the charming city. I welcomed the opportunity that reading week provided to...
What is the biggest issue facing sports today? Is it doping? Head injuries? If you ask investigative sports journalist and recent Osgoode guest Declan Hill, he would tell you that there is no bigger issue in sport than corruption and match-fixing. Match-fixing refers to the practice by which sports are played to a pre-determined result in order to earn a profit by betting on the match. One...
NADIA GUO
<News Editor>
This semester will mark the first instalment of Nadia’s Criminal Law Watch column. Within each issue of Obiter Dicta, I will be keeping Osgoode up to date on current and noteworthy developments in criminal law in Canada, and around the globe, with a focus on injustices.