#Dalhousie Student Politics

[sekritjay]

Fuck it, last dice roll. University it is

I still have transferable credits from Aberystwyth and regardless of what happens with my restaurant I'll have to take out a student loan anyway. And it'll be nice to have a degree in my hands after ten years of regret hanging over my head and I'm kinda resigned to the idea of not truly moving forward until I'm in my late thirties

I've settled on four universities since these four are cheap enough to live and study in and have political science degrees I can transfer credits to - Dalhousie, Manitoba, Guelph and Newfoundland,

I'm lucky in that it APPEARS as though they don't need my secondary school results and won't look too hard at what marks I managed to achieve from Aberystwyth, and since I'm applying as a transfer student if I'm quick and manage to get a loan agreement I could even start studying in March or even in January

Just waiting on replies from the universities in question to see if that's even possible. In the meantime, I'm doomscrolling news reports about inflation and mortgage interest rising, savings falling, water suppliers going under and loan sharks celebrating. Great times all round

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Forget World, Students Told,” Border Cities Star. October 21, 1932. Page 8. ---- Dalhousie U. President Says Too Much Materialism Is Evident ---- HALIFAX, N. S., Oct. 21. "I strongly advise you to lose yourselves in the clouds of fancy as often as you can. Don’t be obsessed so much by this world as it is. A serious study of the world in the past, and a good deal of musing on the world as it might be, is infinitely preferable to pre-occupation with the world in its present sorry condition.”

Such is the opinion of Carleton Stanley, president. of Dalhousie University, as expressed to the student body on their return to take up the years work. 

The president deplored the fact that too few of us have been will mg to think hard and long. and to this he attributed the world's mess today, economically, socially and politically. 

He felt the universities themselves had been lax and half-hearted, offering popular short-cuts and substitutes. Even the philosophy of our day is steeped in materialism and has forgotten its true self. The love of wisdom, or philosophy, it was said long ago. presupposed a love of learning, and concerned itself with mans mental powers and higher nature. But now we are told on all sides that we must look to man's unconscious and instinctive nature for his true nature; and learning, scholarship and especially the more disciplinary subjects of study are slighted. The result of all this is inevitable. 

"The universities, many of them, are fast losing their cutting edge; their graduates, many of them, are guilty of uttering continually the same jargon, the same silly catchwords, as the ordinary vulgar unthinking headline reader.”

[atlanticcanada]

NDP MP introduces bill to combat online hate speech

Incidents of online hate speech are on the rise and an NDP MP is introducing new legislation to stop it.

Peter Julian hosted a town hall in partnership with the Dalhousie University Student Union on Saturday in Halifax to promote the bill.

Julian said the cause of the problem is social media algorithms.

“The algorithms that are there now are secret, and algorithms have a tendency we’ve seen from numerous studies to push hate-filled content on people.”

Social media companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google are not required to share their algorithms with the public.

Julian tabled a bill in Canada’s House of Commons called Bill C-292, also known as the Online Algorithm Transparency Act.

He hopes the legislation could bring changes to social media platforms.

“It will force big tech companies to actually be transparent about the algorithms they use that often benefit this extremism,” said Julian. “It also increases their profit, but it has a profoundly detrimental effect on society.”

Julian says the purpose of the bill is to ensure that online communication service providers do not rely on algorithms that use personal information in a manner that results in adverse treatments of any person or group based on grounds of discrimination. It would also require transparency with its use of the algorithmic processes and content moderation.

Local groups that participated as panel guests included Dalhousie Student Union President Aparna Mohan, Acadia University Associate Professor Kesa Munroe-Anderson, President of the Mulsim Society at Saint Mary’s University Ammar Shakoor and Nova Scotia MLA Lisa Lachance.

The group said that online hate speech increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Munroe-Anderson also noted that online violence has resulted in an increase in hate crimes, with Nova Scotia seeing some of the highest numbers across the country.

“Statistics show that hate crimes rose per one hundred people in Nova Scotia, increased by 70 per cent, the steepest increase in Canada,” said Munroe-Anderson.

With there being a larger move to more online interactions, sociology and social anthropology experts said the number of media sources to engage with increased, which caused people to join groups with certain ideological beliefs, including some that are extreme.

“It’s increasingly leading people to sort of align themselves with niche groups who are taking very particular views on political matters,” said Matthew Gagne, assistant professor at Dalhousie University.

While forcing tech companies to share their algorithms is a step forward, Gagne said it is difficult to know whether or not this will decrease online hate speech.

“We tend to give algorithms a lot of power because they are so obscure to us. We see these algorithms as a black box where we can see inside them so we just use them to describe and explain the changes that are happening,” he said. “It’s just not enough to just go after the algorithm. There’s obviously a whole set of social issues there.”

Nova Scotia was Julian’s first stop to promote his online algorithm transparency bill. Julian will be making stops across the country over the next few months to garner support to pass the legislation.

from CTV News - Atlantic https://ift.tt/Wvg1rX3

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A Muslim Dalhousie University student is being accused of reverse racism and facing disciplinary action for a Facebook post calling out white fragility.

Ahead of Canada 150 celebrations this past summer, Masuma Khan, a Dalhousie Student Union Vice President, drafted a motion to boycott any events associated with the anniversary on campus. Similar motions had been adopted by student unions across the country, and Khan didn’t anticipate the storm of controversy that would follow.

At the council meeting, the motion had widespread support except for a few students who strongly disagreed, Khan told VICE News. Some council members suggested that if Khan wanted to “question the legitimacy of Canada,” she should renounce access to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

But the real battle started after Khan posted a sharp response to a Facebook post from a young conservative group, which criticized the student union for the proposed motion, saying that the union should “prioritize advocating for student issues, not attacking Canada.”  

“At this point, fuck you all,” Khan wrote in a Facebook post that she said the university pressured her to delete. “Be proud of this country? For what, over 400 years of genocide?”

To sign off, she used three hashtags: #unlearn150, #whitefragilitycankissmyass and #yourwhitetearsarentsacredthislandis.

“The university is policing speech and characterizing political speech as personal harassment. That’s a bit much.”

A few days later, a student named Michael Smith filed a formal complaint with the university, alleging that Khan “targeting ‘white people’ who celebrate Canada Day is blatant discrimination,” according to a copy of the document obtained by The Globe and Mail. Smith subsequently wrote an op-ed in the National Post, making Khan the target of a flurry of social media backlash.

Continue Reading.

[elliottgish]

Things What Have Happened

- I went to New York! My best friend and I snuck in there right before the pandemic (October 2019), and it was a wonderful adventure. We ate delicious bagels and went to the Bronx Zoo and saw the Stonewall Inn (I didn’t cry but it was a close call) and twacked around Central Park and just generally touristed out. Times Square was overrated, and we saw a subway station caked in human excrement, but other than that, 11/10, would go again. Here is a picture of me on the Brooklyn Bridge!

- I finished a novel! A whole one! For the first time since 2006! It is called Grey Dog, and it is about a spinster schoolmarm in 1901 dealing with spooky things happening in a small town. And also mental illness, kind of. And also lesbianism. And also animal carcasses. And also bad dads. I am currently chugging through revisions and fending off the urge to just pretend it doesn’t exist and start my next project. Revisions are super fun, but there are about five other stories tugging at my sleeve right now.

- I graduated from the SFU Writer’s Studio program! It was a fantastic experience and I cannot recommend the program highly enough. My mentor was a fantastic CanLit author named Jen Sookfong Lee, who is very funny and very smart.

- I started working as Jen’s apprentice for the 2020-2021 iteration of the Writer’s Studio! Mostly what this means is I get to read writers’ work before anyone else does, which makes me feel extremely important. I also get to make increasingly unfunny pop culture references. Sometimes the students laugh politely, sometimes they wonder why I am talking about Rock of Love with Bret Michaels in a literary fiction workshop.*

- I was accepted into the Writer’s Studio post-graduate workshop! This is explicitly for the purpose of keeping on track with Grey Dog revisions, as without the proper supervision I will wander blithely into a field of daffodils and ignore all the restructuring that needs to be done.

- I published more stories! Two of them I have linked to in previous entries, here and here. The others are not available online. One is called “Judas Goat” and is available in Vastarien. One is an excerpt from Grey Dog, and appears in the 2020 emerge anthology. And one is a very, VERY short piece about werewolves called “What Happened When I Met Lucy in the Woods” for the 42 Stories anthology.

- I did my first reading! And then another, and then ANOTHER. The first reading was put on by the Dalhousie Review, and I read my short story “What Brings You Back There,” which TDR published in 2017 (my very first acceptance!). The other two were both virtual readings, one for the end of the Writer’s Studio program and the other for the Vancouver Writers Fest’s launch of emerge. Turns out that readings are TERRIFYING but also exhilarating, just like anything that involves people paying attention to you in public.

- COVID-19 came along and screwed up the whole world! I was laid off from my library job for the summer (which turned out to be a blessing, we’ll get into why in a minute), and although I am back to work now, the library has changed in some huge ways. No more programs, everyone is masked, there are no toys on the children’s floor... it’s all very different. But I am glad to be back to work!

- I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis! Perhaps the exclamation point is a bit misplaced here. Yes, back in May I called 811 about some strange numbness I was experiencing in my tongue and cheek. The responder told me to go to the hospital, which I thought was an overreaction, given that the numbness was probably due to burning my mouth on a cup of hot tea. Two days, a CAT scan, and a few trips to the MRI later, I learned that the numbness was, in fact, due to my immune system attacking my myelin sheaths and making my nerves go BZZT.

As you can probably imagine, this was (and is) pretty devastating. No one wants to hear that they have an incurable disease that lowers their life expectancy, especially if that disease is one of the most frustrating ones. (“We don’t know what causes it! You may be fine or you may be paralyzed! It’s maybe genetic but not always! We have drugs for it but we’re not sure why they work! Wheeeeee!”) Because I had the summer off work, I had a little time to grieve, to cry, to get very very angry at no one in particular because there really isn’t anyone to blame,** and now I am kind of back to normal. Mostly. Except I still get very angry and very sad, and I will occasionally tell people that they can’t get mad at me for doing or not doing something, because I have holes in my brain. I am not sure how long this excuse will be viable, but by God, I am gonna milk the hell out of it.

So, yeah. Worst “What I Did On My Summer Vacation” ever. I am trying not to let this diagnosis become my whole self, because there are so many other parts of me- bad puns, too many opinions about children’s books, a shameful appreciation of the Purge film franchise, et cetera- but some days I wake up and cannot think about anything else but this thing happening in my brain that may take up to a decade off my life.

- I watched I May Destroy You! It was the best.

* It made sense in context.

** Other than my own demographics, I suppose. A Canadian woman of European descent in her thirties? I am basically a walking advertisement for the kind of person who gets MS.

[dailynewswebsite]

Conflict over Mi’kmaw lobster fishery reveals confusion over who makes the rules

Indigenous lobster boats head from the harbour in Saulnierville, N.S. on Oct. 21, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS /Andrew Vaughan

Prior to now month, the Sipekne’katik First Nation and the Potlotek First Nation positioned lobster traps in bays on the reverse ends of Nova Scotia. Every neighborhood had developed a administration plan primarily based on their treaty rights to earn a reasonable livelihood.

The response to those actions by non-Indigenous fishers has led to nationwide and worldwide protection of the following violence, together with harm to property and assault. Each non-Indigenous fishers and the Fisheries Division (DFO) have since seized among the lobster traps.

The battle has largely centred on whether or not the lobster inventory is threatened by out-of-season fishing, and the definition of a “reasonable” livelihood. Nonetheless, this focus misses the foundation of the Mi’kmaw livelihood subject, specifically the query of who has the authority to manipulate livelihood actions and the way it’s completed.

Researching the difficulty

We’re a part of a small group that has been analyzing these very points since 2014, and contains students with experience in ocean governance and marine coverage and colleagues from the Meeting of First Nations. Our analysis mission, Fish-WIKS, goals to grasp how Indigenous and western data techniques can be utilized to enhance the sustainability of Canadian fisheries.

The processes that feed into decision-making in fisheries in Canada have been primarily influenced by western science‐primarily based data techniques that target a reductionist method to understanding issues. In distinction, Indigenous methods of figuring out are primarily based on world views and values which are integrative and holistic, or as Elder Albert Marshall of Eskasoni First Nation as soon as spelled out, “wholistic.”

Learn extra: It is taken 1000’s of years, however Western science is lastly catching as much as Conventional Information

Who would have guessed that our outcomes from analyzing another governance construction for the livelihood fishery in Nova Scotia via the lens of each data techniques, known as “two-eyed seeing,” would coincide with the present battle enjoying out within the lobster fishery?

Two-eyed seeing

In two-eyed seeing, data is considered as a system that contains what is understood and the way it’s identified. However a data system, whether or not western or Indigenous, consists of many issues.

Conceptual illustration of parts of a data system. (A. Giles, L. Fanning, S. Denny and T. Paul, 2016)

What we all know, how we practise our data, how we adapt to it and the way we transmit and share data are the extra acquainted parts. However the values and beliefs that underpin these parts, and which truly distinguish one data system from one other, are sometimes ignored.

This can be a drawback as a result of the values and beliefs underpinning one system are sometimes at odds with these of one other system, doubtlessly making a barrier to collaboration. Nonetheless, the Fish-WIKS initiatives confirmed there are similarities that may bridge these data techniques and result in better understanding of the variations.

Governance gaps

Our analysis recognized numerous gaps in governance which have contributed to the lobster fishery scenario we’ve right this moment.

There may be nonetheless no federal coverage to deal with livelihood fisheries and the difficulty of livelihood as a treaty proper shouldn’t be talked about within the Aboriginal Fisheries Technique, the first coverage guiding the federal response to Indigenous fisheries

There are additionally conflicting views on who has the authority to handle fisheries, which stem from the perceived legitimacy of every governing system. Legitimacy influences whether or not a political motion is perceived as proper or simply by those that are concerned, and/or affected by it.

The 2 units of guidelines for fisheries come up from the safety of Aboriginal and treaty rights in sections 25 and 35 of the Structure, complicating the difficulty of legitimacy. This authorized pluralism offers DFO the authority over non-Indigenous industrial fisheries whereas limiting its capability to manipulate Indigenous fisheries.

A Mi’kmaw fisher holds his son on his boat earlier than heading out to set traps in Saulnierville, N.S. on Oct. 21, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS /Andrew Vaughan

As well as, Canada should justify any limits it locations on the rights of Indigenous individuals engaged in fishing practices, as decided by the Supreme Courtroom of Canada in R. vs. Sparrow in 1990. The courtroom additionally affirmed Miʼkmaw treaty rights in R. vs. Simon in 1985 and R. vs. Marshall in 1999.

Our analysis confirms that Mi’kmaq are conscious of challenges with the train of treaty rights and helps the need for Mi’kmaq to develop fishery and fishing guidelines which are professional within the eyes of Mi’kmaw fishers, non-Indigenous fishers and DFO. Some communities have developed such guidelines, incorporating data from each western and Indigenous techniques.

Nonetheless, the query stays, does DFO have the justification to intervene with Mi’kmaw lobster livelihood fishing practices if, as Dalhousie College fisheries skilled Megan Bailey identified, there isn’t a scientific proof that the present follow of the lobster livelihood fishery threatens the sustainability of the inventory?

Learn extra: Nova Scotia lobster dispute: Mi’kmaw fishery is not a risk to conservation, say scientists

This must be cleared up. The Fisheries Act offers the DFO broad regulatory authority and this may occasionally prolong to Indigenous fisheries. However the Marshall determination narrows that authority to use solely “the place justification is proven.”

Transferring ahead

Canadians want to acknowledge that this present battle enjoying out in Nova Scotia represents not solely an operational nightmare for DFO however is a deep-seated governance subject. It requires creating a mechanism by which Mi’kmaq can legitimately contribute to the governance of fisheries as an built-in complete.

Brief-term options will likely be recognized, however a longer-term resolution should deal with the authorized pluralism that exists in Canada and facilitate the adoption of different types of governance fashions during which DFO doesn’t have unique authority.

The present give attention to the lobster livelihood fishery and discovering a greenback definition for “reasonable” misses the truth that the underlying governance hole is the crux of the difficulty.

Lucia Fanning receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Analysis Council of Canada.

Shelley Denny is affiliated with UINR.

from Growth News https://growthnews.in/conflict-over-mikmaw-lobster-fishery-reveals-confusion-over-who-makes-the-rules/ via https://growthnews.in

[worklabournewsresearch]

Teaching the Pandemic

“A number of universities in Canada have introduced courses or adapted existing ones to address the COVID-19 pandemic that continues to convulse the globe. Offered online by a range of disciplines, they are helping students to understand how the pandemic is fundamentally reshaping our way of life by illuminating its complex health, social, cultural, economic, legal and political dynamics.”

Course Highlights

COVID-19 & Society at UBC: “COVID-19 & Society is a new fourth-year sociology course at the University of British Columbia that examines how the pandemic is affecting our families, work lives, and health and education institutions. ... It also looks at how the virus has affected the way we socialize, its implications for capitalism and the environment, and the uneven impacts on women, racialized groups and the elderly.”

Pandemic! The Class at Dalhousie University (watch the video here):

“[B]ased on the board game Pandemic by Z-Man Games... [t]he 10-module course involves students participating in pandemic prevention and management teams tasked with eradicating four diseases to prevent a global calamity. Role-playing as scientists, medics, researchers and quarantine specialists, they must work together to make decisions about how to invest in strategies such as researching vaccines, quarantining citizens and conducting military medical responses.”

How to Live in a Pandemic at U of T: “Co-instructors Andrea Charise and Ghazal Fazli have developed a curriculum that explores the role of the arts, social sciences and humanities in shaping innovative and equitable health-care solutions for deeply complex epidemiological events. A variety of creative multimedia materials – poetry, short films, podcasts, visual art, journal entries – elucidate the relevant social, economic and political determinants of health.”

The Conversation, August 23, 2020: “‘How to live in a pandemic’ is the type of university class we need during COVID-19,” by Andrea Charise, Ghazal Fazli, Jessica Fields, Laura Bisaillon, and Nicholas D. Spence

University Affairs, October 12, 2020: “This fall, many instructors are teaching the pandemic,” by Sharon Aschaiek

[junktrashmara-blog]

Hey everyone, These are some designs for an alternative theatre project I'm working on with 8 other students from my university. We are temporarily titling it Women in Horror, since our primary goal is to visually explore the historical, cultural, and political realities of female characters in classic horror films. This all began as a small fashion project I developed with a fellow Costume Studies student, Eleanor Gillies-Nielsen, last year. Now, with the encouragement of my design professor and a team of dedicated musicians, projectionists, film students, set designers, and app developers, we are submitting this project to the World Stage Design exhibition held in Calgary next summer. Given the economical circumstances of these trying times, many funding resources are scarce, and can no longer depend on many external artist's and theatre grants. If you can, please share this with anyone you know who is interested in supporting the performing arts. If you would like to donate, I have attached the GoFundMe link below. My team and I will are extremely grateful for any kind of support you can offer. To donate: http://gofundme.com/f/a-visual-analysis-of-women-in-horror If you're interested in learning more about this project, check out our website: https://womeninhorrorproject.weebly.com/ Please stay safe and have a wonderful day!! #jaws #thefly #rearwindow #texaschainsawmassacre #womeninhorror #theatre #worldstagedesign #Dalhousie #fountainschoolofperformingarts #costumestudies #costumes #studenttheatre https://www.instagram.com/p/CAlStMdngWJ3WyYscYt-NQNDylXhHtEV5v3VOs0/?igshid=hwzo8cq9q38x

[onedalhousie]

Reaching for a helping hand during COVID-19

It’s no question that the effects of COVID-19 continue to be felt all over the world – socially, economically, politically. University students are no exception, with many facing unprecedented challenges, including loss of employment, food and housing insecurity, and families to support.

For Lisa Long, a master’s student at Dalhousie’s School of Information Management, her family’s unique circumstances meant they had to be ready for COVID-19 long before it hit Nova Scotia.

Preparing for COVID-19 early

“Before the pandemic hit Nova Scotia, a friend who is an epidemiologist pulled me aside and told me to get ready,” says Lisa. “She knew my family’s situation, and said you need to take extra precautions now.”

Originally from New Brunswick, Lisa, her husband, Matt and their three-year-old son, Owen currently live in Halifax. It was just two years ago that Matt – now a full-time Accounting student at Saint Mary’s University – required a kidney transplant. “My husband is immunosuppressant, meaning his immune system is very low,” says Lisa. “It’s a big thing in our family, so we have to work hard to keep things under control.”

Before social distancing restrictions were in place, Lisa worked part-time as a massage therapist to support her family. Her husband had not been able to work since his kidney transplant. “With physical distancing restrictions now in place, I cannot work,” says Lisa. “Even if I could work, I just wouldn’t risk it. My family’s health has to come first.”

Reaching out for a helping hand

Without a source of income to pay bills and keep food on the table, Lisa quickly turned to Dal for help. She applied online for an emergency bursary for grad students and was immediately told about the new Student Emergency Relief Fund, one of Dal’s three COVID-19 student relief campaigns. “It was just enough to take our worries away,” says Lisa. “I can’t tell you the difference it made for us.”

The emergency funding from Dal came just as Lisa and her family learned about the Canada Emergency Student Benefit, a new funding program starting this month, announced by the Government of Canada on April 22. “We knew the help from Dal would hold us over until the benefit came into effect.”

As a recipient of the Student Emergency Relief funding, Lisa urges other students who may be in a similar boat to not be afraid to ask for help.

“Keep in mind, people want to help you,” she says. “It’s better to have tried and to be in a better situation than to not have asked at all.”

Offering a helping hand

To alumni, donors and friends of Dalhousie, Lisa wants to share that donating to this cause isn’t just about giving money. It’s about making a difference.

“Just like me, students are trying to climb a ladder, and they need a helping hand,” says Lisa. “They need food on the table, and a roof over their heads, so they can make it to that next step. That support means that as students, we can one day return the favour to society. It tells us that our worries were not just recognized, but taken care of. For that, my family and I are forever grateful.”

To make your gift to any one of Dalhousie’s COVID-19 student relief campaigns, please visit projectdal.ca. Every donation – no matter the size – will have a lasting impact.

[dalhousiediaries]

September Update: Late, but when am I ever on time?

🎵Currently listening to: Sorrow a Spotify Playlist by me🎵

📖Currently reading: Horizons (my French textbook)📖

Here we are, back at it again.

September.

Okay, so I’m pretty late – so sue me, but in my defense, I’ve been so busy over the past month.

I’m back at Dalhousie University for my second year in pursuit of my Political Science and Sociology Undergraduate degree, and I went back with such a clearer mind and a more positive outlook on my move back to Nova Scotia.  I can only assume it’s because I’ve dealt with a full year here already and another couple more years can’t hurt.  Besides, four-five years actually passes by so quickly and of course, I’ve actually grown to like Halifax (even though it’s like a booger amount).

What even happened this past month? Well, I guess the past month and a half since I was here since August.  I had left home early because of my new position in Dalhousie’s Ancillary Services as Risley Hall’s Front Desk Staff, a very exciting position, if I do say so myself. I flew out of Vancouver on August 27th and arrived in Halifax the next day – or, was it the same day? I don’t really remember, but that’s not really important.  I forgot how annoying jetlag is but I was quickly reminded when I couldn’t fall asleep that night – even though I was tired from travelling.

I’m not a first year this year (no duh) so I didn’t attend Orientation, but to be fair, I was working the entire two-ish weeks I was there – everyday.  Even if I did register for Orientation Week, I’d be too busy to even attend half the events and for an event that costs what it does, that’s money wasted rather than well-spent.

Because I’m writing this post so late, I’m referencing to my planner to help job my memory so that may be a reason why this post is going to be relatively short.

To summarize quickly, I was a little too busy to write – and to be honest, I lost motivation to write, which sucks because writing is my only form of release/stress busting.

September actually was pretty slow (even though I say I was busy) because, I didn’t have any assignments or any projects until October, but anyway… September was a blur of classes, readings, council events, getting people together and organized and of course, classes.

But if there’s one thing I could highlight about September is that, I finally started using the resources that (I’m paying for) Dalhousie provides.  I started dropping into Academic Advising to ask for advice on where to go with my (seemingly useless) degrees.  There, I met an amazing source of support in the form of my academic advisor, Tyler.  Honestly, I highly advise any student, whether you attend Dalhousie or not, to use these resources – exploit it.  I now plan to do my science requirement in the summer (hopefully at SFU, and it’d be an introductory geology course) and maybe get the second half of my English requirement done online in the summer as well – choices I didn’t know existed until I went into Academic Advising.

Grades wise, since we’re talking about Academic Advising, they’ve never been better – I was sitting on 5 A pluses… well, I can’t say that anymore, but for the first month at least I was at a perfect term GPA.

I think I told some of my friends back home about this, but I had attended an ACKSE event - which is a big Korean university-community; and to be honest, I have no idea why I thought to go because so many people know how I feel about Koreans, Korea, Korean media and so on - but I kind of want to write a separate post about this.

September 13th also marked the 3 month anniversary with my boyfriend back home – which yes, to some older readers, this is a new significant other and yes, again I’m doing yet another long distance relationship.

Nothing really significant happened in September, it was more like getting back into the rhythm of school and now, work.

[lawschoolruinedme]

Could you maybe help me out?? I'm starting to look at undergraduate schools lately and I feel like I'm just drowning. Do you have any recommendations on majors/universities for an aspiring criminal lawyer?? Thanks a million!!!!

So… my recommendations are all Canadian? So if that’s the kind of university you’re into - hit me up! I always recommend a school with a good student experience because that is at least 75% of what you remember from school (Highlights include: Guelph, McMaster, Carleton, Dalhousie and McGill)

In terms of a degree - there are obviously degrees available in Pre Law (Carleton and Ryerson both offer them for sure), or Criminology (basically any reputable university offers one of them), but I think Undergraduate is a great place to explore other interests and expand your world view to make you a better lawyer. 

You know what the world needs? Lawyers who understand immigration and institutional barriers. Lawyers who understand feminism. Lawyers who have a background in business and marketing and can revamp the legal business model. 

In short, go to be Elle Woods. Study what you love, and make yourself a better lawyer than all those political science majors who never thought there was an option outside the box. 

[atlanticcanada]

Jeffrey Hutchings, advocate for independent fisheries science, dies at age 63

A Canadian ecologist and fisheries scientist who criticized political interference in scientific advice on declining fish populations -- particularly the northern cod -- has died at the age of 63.

Colleagues at Dalhousie University's department of biology said Jeffrey Hutchings, a longtime professor at the Halifax school, died at his home during the weekend. The cause of death was not released.

John Reynolds, chair of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, was a lifelong colleague and he described Hutchings as an intellectual soulmate who believed passionately in the value of ensuring public policy decisions could be guided by unbiased science.

Hutchings was the chair of the same committee from 2006-2010, leading a team of about 40 scientists in assessing which Canadian species were at risk of extinction.

Reynolds, a professor at Simon Fraser University, recalled Hutchings as a principled man who used his background in ecology and evolutionary science to understand the fisheries and to call for more independence from scientific advisers to federal decision makers.

"He went against the grain in terms of the way fisheries scientists were thinking about the stocks," Reynolds said. "He'd look at the organism, the fish itself, and say, 'Wait a minute, this fish species will take many years to reach maturity, so therefore it will take many, many years for the fish population to rebuild.' "

"These kinds of things seem obvious but were nonetheless being lost," he added.

Hutchings wasn't shy to call out scientists and senior civil servants for mismanagement of the northern cod species in the 1990s. "He was fresh out of graduate school and he looked at the data at what had happened ... and said, 'It was overfishing that did it, pure and simple,"' Reynolds recalled.

He said that some in the federal Fisheries Department had attempted to spin the collapse as resulting from a mix of ecological factors rather than primarily overfishing.

In 1997, Hutchings and two co-authors wrote a bluntly worded paper for the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences questioning whether government-administered science could be trusted to provide independent advice to decision makers. The paper's abstract noted how "non-science influences can interfere with the dissemination of scientific information and the conduct of sciences in the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans."

The cod fishery off southeastern Labrador and northeastern Newfoundland, once the largest on the planet, was closed on July 2, 1992 after a massive drop in the cod population, resulting in the loss of an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 jobs.

Hutchings' frank diagnosis several years later of the federal Fisheries Department's failure to state plainly that overfishing was the cause, "led to a huge amount of attention and blowback against him by civil servants and some scientists," Reynolds said.

An invective-laden government release to the media in 1997 referred to the journal article as "science fiction," written by professors who were using innuendo and misrepresentation.

However, Hutchings didn't back away from his position that science needed to be more independent, while also praising governments if they added to scientific staffing. During the government of former prime minister Stephen Harper, Hutchings continued to call for arm's-length science to provide advice on the state of fish stocks. In 2016, he praised the federal Liberals for rebuilding the scientific staff at the federal Fisheries Department.

Aaron MacNeil, a former student who became a colleague at Dalhousie University, said his mentor will be remembered for advocacy of "the primacy of science in decision making," as well as the obligation of scientists to speak the truth once they've discovered it.

"He knew that science can help make better decisions and this can have a major influence on peoples' lives and livelihoods," he said.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 1, 2022

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CANADA: Adventurous guitarist and oud master Gordon Grdina and the Nomad Trio celebrate new album at La Vitrola in Montreal on Friday, January 10

Adventurous guitarist and oud master Gordon Grdina and the Nomad Trio celebrate new album at La Vitrola in Montreal on Friday, January 10

Teaming Grdina with pianist Matt Mitchell and drummer Jim Black, Nomad, the trio’s debut album is a thrillingly varied recording

“The prevailing ambience is one of dark mystery, but the ruggedness of Grdina’s tone makes for

a palette of rich contrast.” – David R. Adler, JazzTimes (review of Think Like the Waves)

 “[Gordon Grdina is] a player of unbridled musical ingenuity.” – Raul da Gama, World Music Report

JUNO Award winning guitarist and oud player Gordon Grdina brings his “unbridled musical ingenuity” to Montreal on Friday, January 10 in a concert celebrating Nomad, the debut recording from his Nomad Trio, with pianist Matt Mitchell and drummer Jim Black. The concert takes place at La Vitrola, 4602 St-Laurent, Montreal. Doors at 8 p.m., music at 9 p.m. Tickets $15. For information visit https://www.facebook.com/events/605177053557542/.

The concert is part of an album release tour that runs through January 17 with additional stops in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, Halifax, Ottawa, Hamilton, Toronto, Ann Arbor, Chicago, and New York City (see details below).

A musician’s life is an inherently nomadic one, which can make things difficult when trying to get three of modern jazz’s most in-demand artists into one room at the same time. Vancouver-based Grdina had wanted to bring together pianist Mitchell and drummer Black for several years before their busy schedules allowed them to finally join forces. The results turned out to be well worth the wait, as Nomad, the debut from Gordon Grdina’s Nomad Trio, is thrilling high-wire act of complex interplay and sparks-flying electricity.

The album, out January 10, 2020 via Skirl Records, will be released shortly before Resist, a politically-charged album by the Gordon Grdina Septet on saxophonist Jon Irabagon’s Irabagast label. The Nomad Trio music was penned by Grdina with these musicians and their vast array of experiences in mind – an idea that the composer found incredibly liberating. “Knowing what Matt and Jim can do, the possibilities were wide open,” he says. “I could be as imaginative as I wanted to be, which was really exciting.”

The name of the trio definitely reflects the members’ travel-heavy lifestyles, but in the case of Grdina, Mitchell and Black it also points to the wandering tastes and wide-ranging inspirations of all three musicians. Grdina’s music explores uncommon convergences between adventurous jazz and improvisation, indie rock and classical Arabic music. His diverse projects bridge the divides between contemporary chamber music and avant-garde experimentation, combining unique artists and instrumentations to craft singular sonic landscapes in projects like Square Peg (with Mat Maneri, Christian Lillinger and Shahzad Ismaily), The Marrow (with Mark Helias, Hank Roberts and Hamin Honari) and his Quartet with Oscar Noriega, Russ Lossing, and Satoshi Takeishi.

Mitchell’s boundary-free playing roams between the acoustic and the electronic, the intricately composed and the extemporaneously improvised, meshing with the soulful strains of the Dave Douglas Quintet, the expansive labyrinths of Tim Berne’s Snakeoil, and the metal-jazz fusion of Dan Weiss’ Starebaby alike. Black’s forward-thinking approach to the drums came to prominence in the ground-breaking quartet Human Feel before joining Berne’s influential quintet Bloodcount, and has since forged a unique path splicing jazz with rock, electronica and Balkan influences through bands like AlasNoAxis and Pachora.

In Mitchell’s case, Grdina praises the pianist’s keen focus, saying, “There’s always an intensity to Matt’s playing that I love. He’s somebody that really pushes the music and is one hundred percent committed to it.” As for Black, whose playing has been an influence on both of his triomates, Grdina says, “Jim is able to take these off-kilter rhythms and make them sound cohesive. No matter how adventurous I was in my writing, he made it all groove, so that even the most complicated music feels good, like it all has a backbeat.”

That combination of the joyful and the cerebral is vividly on display out of the gate, as opener “Wildfire” captures the beauty and violence of animals in their natural habitat. Like many of Grdina’s compositions, its title comes from the site of its inception: “Wildfire” was composed while he was an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Alberta, Canada, an institution renowned as much for its natural splendor as for the brilliant music it has spawned. “You’re writing music in a cabin while deer stroll right up to your window, You’re literally in the wild” Grdina recalls. “That beauty is part of it, but the song also has this fire and intensity to it.”

Opening with a knotty solo statement from the bandleader, “Nomad” offers a mission statement for the trio, its gnarled melodic line embodying the restlessness and search for a foothold suggested by the name. Mitchell’s churning solo joins with the tumultuous rumble of Black’s drums to conjure a sense of unsteadiness that bleeds into Grdina’s assertive, serrated turn. “Ride Home,” written while Grdina was wrapping up an exhausting tour with a rock band, feels laden with the edgy weariness and tense anticipation of a long-overdue return,

The haunting “Benbow” recalls a stay in a historic northern California hotel, its age present in both alluring and unsettling ways that reminded Grdina of the ill-fated Overlook Hotel from The Shining – albeit in the much more inviting summer months. The album takes a turn for the autumnal on “Thanksgiving,” written during the holiday but also in gratitude for the opportunity to play with such stellar musicians. Mitchell’s shimmering introduction to “Lady Choral” reflects the music’s origins in a dream – one in which Grdina humorously struggled to pronounce the name of fusion guitarist Larry Coryell. The slip of the tongue produced this stunning, chorale-like piece that is the album’s sole showcase for Grdina’s virtuosic oud playing.

“It feels like all of us are constantly moving, both literally and musically,” Grdina sums up. “Everybody’s always touring like mad, and musically it feels like we have to find our roots wherever we happen to be.  It’s a fascinating challenge to stay grounded while doing things you’ve never done before and moving in new directions toward places you’ve never been.”

Gordon Grdina

Gordon Grdina is a JUNO Award winning oud player/guitarist whose career has spanned continents, decades and constant genre exploration throughout avant-garde jazz, free form improvisation, contemporary indie rock and classical Arabic music. His singular approach to the instruments has earned him recognition from the highest ranks of the jazz/improv world. Grdina has studied, composed, performed and collaborated with a wide array of field-leading artists including Colin Stetson, Gary Peacock, Paul Motion, Jerry Granelli, Mats Gustafsson, Dan Mangan, Mark Feldman, Eyvind Kang, Matt Mitchell and Jim Black.

Gordon Grdina’s Nomad Trio – Nomad

Skirl Records – Skirl 044 – Recorded January 27, 2018

Release date January 10, 2020  

TOUR DATES – Gordon Grdina’s Nomad Trio

Sunday, January 5, @ Royal Room, 5000 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA

https://theroyalroomseattle.com, 206-906-9920

Doors 6:00, Music 7:00 PM

Tickets:$15 https://www.strangertickets.com/events/102576628/gordon-grdinas-nomad-trio-w-matt-mitchell-and-jim-black?fbclid=IwAR0UhLQBS0WRTHnk3o7Yb7KIB3eDrjgZ5QM14uxAE3Htw1fUD528x7L1OI0

Monday, January 6, Blue Whale, 123 Astronaut Ellison S Onizuka St #301, Los Angeles, CA

Tickets: $15. Doors 8:00, Show 9:00 PM   http://www.bluewhalemusic.com, 213-620-0908

Tuesday, January 7, Center for New Music, 55 Taylor St, San Francisco, CA

Tickets: $15. Doors 7:00, Show 8:00 PM https://centerfornewmusic.com,

Wednesday, January 8, Orpheum Annex, 823 Seymour St, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Tickets: $20, Doors 7:00, Show 8:00 PM. https://vancouvercivictheatres.com/venues/annex/.

Thursday, January 9, OWF Festival, Halifax, Canada

9 p.m. MacAloney Room at the Dalhousie Arts Centre. http://www.upstreammusic.org/open-waters-festival-2020-0.

Friday, January 10, LA Vitrola, 4602 St-Laurent, Montreal, Canada

Tickets: $15. Doors 8:00 Music 9:00 PM. https://www.facebook.com/events/605177053557542/

Saturday, January 11, Gig Space, 953 Gladstone Ave, Ottawa, Canada

Tickets: $25, $15 Students. Doors 7:00 Music 7:30 PM https://www.gigspace.ca, 613-729-0693

Sunday, January 12, Zula Music and Arts Collective, Hamilton, Canada

Tickets: $15. Early Show 3PM  https://zulapresents.org/ 289-993-1993.

Something Else Creative Music Series.

Monday, January 13, The Rex, 194 Queen St W, Toronto, Canada

Tickets: $15. 9:30 PM https://therex.ca, 416-598-2475

Tuesday, January 14, Kerrytown Concert House, 415 N 4th Ave, Ann Arbor, MI

https://www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com, 734-769-2999

Doors 7:30 Music 8:00 PM

Thursday, January 16, Elastic Arts, Chicago, 3429 W Diversey Ave #208, Chicago, IL

Tickets: $10. 2 sets starting at 9 PM. https://elasticarts.org, 773-772-3616

Friday, January 17, Nublu, 62 Avenue C, New York, NY

Tickets $10 EARLY SHOW 6 p.m. http://nublu.net.

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A robot in every factory: The $230-million bid to help automate Ontario’s manufacturing sector

The centrepiece of Canada’s innovation strategy is the $950-million “supercluster” initiative. The goal, according to the federal government, is for companies of all sizes, academia and the non-profit sector to collaborate on new technologies, to spur economic growth and create jobs. As part of the Innovation Nation series, the Financial Post is taking an in-depth look at each of the five regional projects, and provide continuing coverage of their progress. You can find all of our coverage here.

The effort to jumpstart the growth of Ontario’s advanced manufacturing sector, such that even cookie factories and printing shops could soon be using robots and self-driving vehicles, started in earnest around December 2016.

That’s when consulting firm McKinsey & Co. produced a short report that concluded “the Toronto-Waterloo region has the potential to become one of the world’s top innovation ecosystems,” on par with Silicon Valley. That got people talking.

“It was the first report of its kind,” said Jan Da Silva, chief executive of the Toronto Region Board of Trade, who began hosting a series of formal and informal discussions with executives from the manufacturing and technology sectors in southern Ontario.

About six months later in May 2017, the federal Liberal government announced its intention to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in “innovation superclusters,” essentially densely concentrated business sectors that could possibly evolve into larger economic engines with a little more investment.

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Da Silva said many local executives felt Ontario’s budding tech sector and its longstanding manufacturing sector could both benefit from greater collaboration. There is a symmetry to their challenges: Manufacturing companies need the latest technology to increase productivity and keep pace with competitors, while the small companies building some of that technology need local customers that can help them test and expand their products.

But the idea that investing several hundred million dollars will be enough to transform any sector into an economic powerhouse and a hotbed of innovation has been critiqued as both too small to make a difference and just a large corporate giveaway.

Nonetheless, fast-forward two years, and the Liberal government has signed on to the idea, entrusting $230 million to a non-profit in southern Ontario to build next-generation manufacturing capabilities.

Exactly how that money will be spent, and the contours of the nascent program, remains vague in nearly all respects, but participants said the basic idea is set: The Advanced Manufacturing Supercluster (AMS) program would like to see robotic arms, self-driving vehicles and other new technologies widely distributed, from the low-margin warehouses in drab industrial corridors to the factory floors at the largest automotive plants.

“Sometimes people look at the technology and think that it’s impenetrable, but the amount of progress on this over the last few decades has really made it just like buying another computer,” said Ryan Gariepy, chief technology officer of Clearpath Robotics Inc. in Waterloo, and an AMS board member.

Gariepy’s businesses, which include Clearpath and its Otto Motors subsidiary, manufacture self-driving vehicles and robotic arms for factories, warehouses and all manner of offices. They already count large multinationals such as Toyota Motor Corp. as customers, he said, and are looking for smaller to medium-sized local businesses to expand their customer base and test new products.

Gariepy said he would love for supercluster funding to make it possible for small manufacturing businesses to quickly and easily learn about technologies that could make their operations more productive.

Christine Amon, dean of faculty of applied science and engineering at University of Toronto, and another AMS board member, said she is excited about the prospect of greater collaboration between industries and students.

“Providing incentives for industry to partner with universities, or the reverse, is extremely effective to translate the knowledge being generated at the university,” she said.

Officially, the Liberal government is setting more concrete bars to measure the success of the AMS. It has said its $230-million investment will add $13.5 billion in gross domestic product and 13,500 jobs to the economy over 10 years.

“Think of a made-in-Canada Silicon Valley,” Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, said last February in Hamilton about the program’s goals.

McKinsey pegged the equity value of tech companies in the Toronto-Waterloo corridor, which comprises the so-called cluster, at $14 billion — a tiny fraction of the $411-billion value of Silicon Valley’s tech cluster.

“The Toronto-Waterloo Innovation Corridor … has the potential to deliver a $50 billion increase in direct equity value, $17.5 billion in direct annual GDP, and more than 170,000 high-quality jobs by 2025,” according to McKinsey.

The consultant also noted that there are already 15,000 tech companies in Toronto, Hamilton, Guelph and Kitchener-Waterloo that combined produce more than $360 billion in annual GDP. Against these numbers, the government’s goals seem modest.

Of course, advanced manufacturing is just one of five industries the government selected as part of its $950-million Innovation Supercluster Initiative unveiled in 2018.

“Clustering is a well-known and real economic effect,” said Richard Florizone, outgoing president of Dalhousie University in Halifax, which is heavily involved with the Oceans Supercluster.

But Florizone also points out that although clusters can be identified — California’s wine industry, for instance — no one knows exactly how to create or nurture one.

“The question just becomes how do you create that?” he said. “Let’s be honest, regions around the world are wrestling with this, everyone’s trying to create the next Silicon Valley.”

Florizone noted that direct government investment is controversial if only because attitudes toward public-sector failures are complicated: People accept that the country has to take risks to succeed, but don’t always accept that those risks include failure.

The other issue is the government is wading into a politically fraught issue since opinions vary about the number of jobs that automation will create, and whether companies can or will replace repetitious line jobs with better-paying, more skilled positions.

“I guess the key change this initiative is trying to promote is more collaboration,” said Cory Mulvahill, lead executive for Policy and Public Affairs at MaRS Discovery District in Toronto.

MaRS, a decades-old organization operating to grow Toronto’s tech sector, was involved early on in the effort to get funding for an Advanced Manufacturing Supercluster.

“The federal government’s piece of this is they put a little money on the table to incent that collaboration,” Mulvahill said.

In Ontario, a newly formed non-profit called Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen) will control the government’s $230-million investment in the AMS. NGen hasn’t yet disclosed any of the projects it plans to pursue with the money — which began being transferred late last year – but it has said it will begin making announcements by March.

Jayson Myers, chief executive of NGen, said his organization is also talking to private companies about raising money so that it can continue after government funding runs out in several years.

He said one of NGen’s goals is to connect technology companies and manufacturers. To this end, it will help coordinate site visits so that small manufacturers can see other businesses that are already using new technology, and it will also run training programs and build a database that lists what technologies are available.

“We’re going to run a program to showcase technology at companies across Canada,” he said.

Myers acknowledged the company will have to be careful not to become an agent that advocates for any particular company’s products, but said he thought it was possible to take sponsorships to run such programs while maintaining neutrality.

He also said the majority of the government funding, about $190 million, will be doled out on as reimbursements. That is, after NGen approves projects for funding, the companies involved must put down the cash to pay for the project but will be partially reimbursed by NGen. Short descriptions of the projects that receive funding will eventually be posted.

Myers said NGen also plans to invest at least $25 million over four years to help small companies adopt new technologies, or help them scale up or de-risk some of their investment in new technologies.

Gariepy, Clearpath’s chief technology officer, said some people look at the government’s investment and wonder why it’s even necessary.

“I know there have been concerns … that these companies should just stand up on their own,” he said. “That would be a reasonable position to take if that’s the way other countries were operating, but other countries are not operating that way.”

Instead, Gariepy said other countries, such as Japan and China, are investing billions of dollars to ensure their manufacturing sectors are rapidly transformed by new technologies such as robots.

The result, he added, is that Canada’s manufacturing sector will only fall further behind if it doesn’t invest now.

Gariepy said smaller manufacturing companies are already struggling to compete in an era when a few large companies use automation, scale and efficiencies to make next-day delivery of products — often customized — a standard customer expectation.

“Most people look at self-driving vehicles and advanced robotics as something that only the big companies can adopt,” he said. “They don’t look at it as technology that a small or family-owned business can adopt.”

But Gariepy said the point of the AMS is to make sure that technology is widely and evenly spread throughout Ontario’s factories and warehouses, so that smaller businesses can compete.

He acknowledged that getting such technologies into smaller businesses is an important next step for his company, and likely others, but also argued it’s important for the overall economy.

Is $230 million over five years enough? Probably not, but it’s a necessary start, Gariepy said.

“There’s a bit of an assumption in many places that to meet the goals of the Advanced Manufacturing Supercluster fundamentally new technology needs to be invented,” he said. “I would like to be at the point where a company that has a productivity challenge … can quickly and easily find local experts to understand if this problem is solvable and, if it is, how to solve it.”

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Robson Crim Enters Third Year with New Journals and New Contributors

As we embark upon the new academic year, Robson Crim is pleased to announce that we are in press for 2 new volumes of the Manitoba Law Journal Criminal Law Edition. With 20 new peer-reviewed and open access articles there will be plenty of exciting topics to read about including developments in the intersection of criminal law and immigration, exclusion of evidence under the Charter, developments in evidence law of sexual assault, pre-trial delay, Indigenous Justice, national security law, Fentanyl policy in BC and much more. The journals will be launched this Fall. Stay tuned for news of a launch event.

Please see our latest call for papers, as we invite submissions relating to criminal law and its cognate fields. We are accepting submissions on a rolling basis until February 1, 2019.

If you are a crim-interested student, academic, practitioner, or other interested party, we are happy to receive your blog posts. We cross link to the CanLII Connects system as well. Remember to contact us if you have something you want to share with the world! We review all blogs, and where necessary can edit them and work with you to get your work into optimal publishable form. Check out some of our blog posts!

Last but not least we welcome our latest collaborators!

Welcome to Professor Sasha Baglay, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Her primary areas of research are immigration and refugee law and policy, but she also explores intersections between immigration and criminal law in the context of inadmissibility, human trafficking, and national security regimes. She received her Master of Law degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Doctor of Jurisprudence from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto, Ontario. She joined the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in 2006. She specializes in immigration and refugee law and policy. In 2009-2010 she was the President of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies.

Welcome to Lisa Silver! Lisa is a proud Calgarian, lawyer, educator, and avid community volunteer. She holds a B.A. (UWO (Econ), 1984), an LL.B. (Osgoode Hall, 1987), and a LL.M. (Calgary, 2001). She was called to the Bar of Ontario (1989) and the Bar of Alberta (1998). Lisa’s practice area is criminal law and she has appeared before all levels of Court, including the Supreme Court of Canada. Lisa is an active writer. She maintains a law blog/podcast at www.ideablawg.ca, which has been recognized as a three-time runner-up in the Law Professor category for the Clawbies – Canadian Law Blog Awards. Recently her blog won a 2017 Clawbie in the Law Professor category. She has published in The Criminal Law Quarterly and has a forthcoming article in the Manitoba Law Review. She is also a regular contributor to the Faculty of Law ABlawg website.

Welcome to Rick Linden. Rick Linden is Professor of Sociology and Research Fellow with the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at the University of Manitoba. Following B.A. and M.A. degrees at the University of Alberta, he completed a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Washington in 1974. He is the author of over 50 published papers and government reports, and is the author or editor of four books including Canada’s best-selling Criminology text. His current research interests include work in the areas of peacekeeping and dispute resolution.

Welcome Robson Hall alum, Daphne Gilbert. Daphne Gilbert is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa, and a member of the of the Centre for Health Law, Politics and Ethics. Her main research areas are in women’s equality rights and access to reproductive justice, the implementation of and access to medical aid in dying (MAiD), and sexual violence. She is President of the Board of an international reproductive justice organization, “Women Help Women”, that offers medical abortion drugs and counselling to women around the world (https://womenhelp.org/). She sits on the legal advisory committee for Dying with Dignity Canada and she has appeared as counsel to LEAF on an intervention before the Supreme Court of Canada. Professor Gilbert is a graduate of the University of Manitoba (BA, LLB) and Yale University (LLM), and a former clerk to Antonio Lamer, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

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Robson Crim Enters Third Year with New Journals and New Contributors

As we embark upon the new academic year, Robson Crim is pleased to announce that we are in press for 2 new volumes of the Manitoba Law Journal Criminal Law Edition. With 20 new peer-reviewed and open access articles there will be plenty of exciting topics to read about including developments in the intersection of criminal law and immigration, exclusion of evidence under the Charter, developments in evidence law of sexual assault, pre-trial delay, Indigenous Justice, national security law, Fentanyl policy in BC and much more. The journals will be launched this Fall. Stay tuned for news of a launch event.

Please see our latest call for papers, as we invite submissions relating to criminal law and its cognate fields. We are accepting submissions on a rolling basis until February 1, 2019.

If you are a crim-interested student, academic, practitioner, or other interested party, we are happy to receive your blog posts. We cross link to the CanLII Connects system as well. Remember to contact us if you have something you want to share with the world! We review all blogs, and where necessary can edit them and work with you to get your work into optimal publishable form. Check out some of our blog posts!

Last but not least we welcome our latest collaborators!

Welcome to Professor Sasha Baglay, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Her primary areas of research are immigration and refugee law and policy, but she also explores intersections between immigration and criminal law in the context of inadmissibility, human trafficking, and national security regimes. She received her Master of Law degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Doctor of Jurisprudence from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto, Ontario. She joined the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in 2006. She specializes in immigration and refugee law and policy. In 2009-2010 she was the President of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies.

Welcome to Lisa Silver! Lisa is a proud Calgarian, lawyer, educator, and avid community volunteer. She holds a B.A. (UWO (Econ), 1984), an LL.B. (Osgoode Hall, 1987), and a LL.M. (Calgary, 2001). She was called to the Bar of Ontario (1989) and the Bar of Alberta (1998). Lisa’s practice area is criminal law and she has appeared before all levels of Court, including the Supreme Court of Canada. Lisa is an active writer. She maintains a law blog/podcast at www.ideablawg.ca, which has been recognized as a three-time runner-up in the Law Professor category for the Clawbies – Canadian Law Blog Awards. Recently her blog won a 2017 Clawbie in the Law Professor category. She has published in The Criminal Law Quarterly and has a forthcoming article in the Manitoba Law Review. She is also a regular contributor to the Faculty of Law ABlawg website.

Welcome to Rick Linden. Rick Linden is Professor of Sociology and Research Fellow with the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at the University of Manitoba. Following B.A. and M.A. degrees at the University of Alberta, he completed a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Washington in 1974. He is the author of over 50 published papers and government reports, and is the author or editor of four books including Canada’s best-selling Criminology text. His current research interests include work in the areas of peacekeeping and dispute resolution.

Welcome Robson Hall alum, Daphne Gilbert. Daphne Gilbert is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa, and a member of the of the Centre for Health Law, Politics and Ethics. Her main research areas are in women’s equality rights and access to reproductive justice, the implementation of and access to medical aid in dying (MAiD), and sexual violence. She is President of the Board of an international reproductive justice organization, “Women Help Women”, that offers medical abortion drugs and counselling to women around the world (https://womenhelp.org/). She sits on the legal advisory committee for Dying with Dignity Canada and she has appeared as counsel to LEAF on an intervention before the Supreme Court of Canada. Professor Gilbert is a graduate of the University of Manitoba (BA, LLB) and Yale University (LLM), and a former clerk to Antonio Lamer, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

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