/BarTalk/Articles/2019/February/Columns/Fake-News!!!
Im not a fan of that bankrupt real estate promoter, game show host, serial liar, and useful idiot to the Russians who is President of the United States. But his shambolic presidency does serve an important purpose. It reminds us of the significance of the rule of law, the dan...
/BarTalk/Articles/2018/December/Features/Growing-Liability-Concerns-in-the-Classroom
Education is an ever-changing field as research around how children acquire and retain knowledge improves. Best practice encourages outdoor play, exploration, field trips and overnight camps. The aim is developing resiliency, critical thinking, and decision-making skills, all...
/BarTalk/Articles/2018/December/Features/Copyright-in-Teaching-Materials
When a post-secondary institution approves a course of instruction, it establishes a number of course elements such as subject matter, learning outcomes, and competencies. Instructors bring courses to life, planning the sequence of lessons, readings, lectures, and assessments...
/BarTalk/Articles/2018/December/Columns/Being-Tony
There it is again. The “C” word. In the process of booking a cruise for December, the glossy brochure arrived at our house last week with baggage tags, destination information and a warm personal letter to “Craig Wilson.” This of course, was a function of the form I completed...
/BarTalk/Articles/2018/December/Features/Show-Your-Work
"Show your work” is the classic admonition of instructors across the world, scrawled across math tests and law exams since time immemorial. In administrative law, “show your work” also applies where an educational institution must balance competing interests – such as when a...
/BarTalk/Articles/2018/October/Columns/You-Only-Live-Twice
There's an old adage that you don’t die once, but twice: the first time when you stop breathing, and many years later when someone mentions your name for the very last time. That’s why, as we near Remembrance Day in 2018, I’d like to talk about the First World War, which ende...
/BarTalk/Articles/2018/October/Features/Rights-Recognition
... The government will develop – in full partnership with Indigenous peoples – a new Recognition and Implementation of Indigenous Rights Framework (“RRIF”) that will include… recognition and implementation of rights legislation. The federal government’s absence over ...
/BarTalk/Articles/2018/October/Columns/These-words-will-always-ring-true
Often these words and thoughts are not considered when contemplating the plight of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Senator Murray Sinclair, Chair of Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (the “TRC”) has remarked that Canadians should know that Indigenous peoples have do...
/BarTalk/Articles/2018/October/Columns/Power-and-Influence
At 4:20 a.m., I left my home in a taxi headed to the Vancouver airport to catch a 6:00 a.m. flight to Kamloops. The purpose of my journey and my first official act as CBABC President was to address the first-year law students of Thompson Rivers University. I had been presiden...
/BarTalk/Articles/2018/October/Columns/The-Advantage-of-Being-Young
From a simple reality stems many complicated realities: there were people living on the land we now call Canada, long before there was a Colony of France (first) and Colony of Great Britain (predominant later). The history of how colonial powers treated the original inhabita...