Wednesday, May 8, 2019

For My Mom on Mothers’ Day - Elizabeth ‘Jean’ Harrison (nee Rhodes)

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Mothers’ day 2019 will be my first without my own Mom.   She passed away last year, when I wrote this memorial.   She was many things: a p...
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Sunday, August 26, 2018

Bernier Split From Conservatives Looks Like HH Stevens and his Depression Era 'Reconstruction Party'

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Maxime Bernier’s recent split with Conservatives evokes memories of Lucien Bouchard and Preston Manning (and others, see here ), both of w...
Friday, January 5, 2018

My 'Top 10' Canadian Legal Ethical/Professional Roundup for 2017

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Introduction      2017 was a busy year for ethics and professionalism in Canadian law.  I've been tracking multiple issues, which touc...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

Remembering Canada's 'Premature Anti-Fascists' in the Spanish Civil War

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     A recurrent theme in our law and politics is state concern about individual citizens going overseas to fight in foreign wars, see here ...
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Sunday, October 1, 2017

What's in a Name? - Facts & Fallacies in the LSUC Debate 2017*

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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." - Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2) In...
Saturday, September 9, 2017

Law, Star Trek Lawyers, & How We Envision the Future

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     Legal precedent has a temporal aspect that makes it inherently both historical and prospective. In the latter sense, while stare decisi...