Embracing the #RacismLivesHereToo campaign at Osgoode Hall Law School My excitement in coming to Osgoode was unparalleled: the first day of the legal career for the first lawyer-to be in the family. I couldn’t wait for all the intellectual discussions with like-minded people who were here to make the world a better place. To my shock, on my first day of school, I was asked by a few peers about...
In case you’ve been hiding under a rock in the last few weeks, there was a significant racist incident at Osgoode at the beginning of February. Someone scratched out the eyes of posters depicting famous black Canadians. One of Obiter’s writers already covered the incident at length, so I’m going to say little more about that particular incident beyond merely stating my disdain for the act and...
In or around January 30-31, two posters that were part of a display created by the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) for Black History Month were defaced. Specifically, the eyes of the people in the posters were scratched out. Osgoode students received an email from Dean Sossin late on January 31 explaining what had happened. The BLSA released a statement on February 1 that is...
White Privilege Exists: Do Something Good With It On 7 September 2017, a video emerged of a woman heckling NDP leadership hopeful Jagmeet Singh at an event in Brampton. Heckling is putting it mildly, since she spent about two minutes shouting at Mr. Singh from a distance of about four inches. When staffers and crowd members tried to calm her or otherwise dissuade her, she threatened to have them...