Monday’s Mix

Each Monday we present brief excerpts of recent posts from five of Canada’s award­-winning legal blogs chosen at random* from more than 80 recent Clawbie winners. In this way we hope to promote their work, with their permission, to as wide an audience as possible.

This week the randomly selected blogs are 1. Jumping off the Ivory Tower Podcast 2. Sunday Night Administrative Review 3. Librarian of Things 4. Law of Work 5. Blogue SOQUIJ

Jumping off the Ivory Tower Podcast
Can’t Buy My Silence

Our final episode for this season focuses on the campaign to ban the misuse of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) being led by Dr. Julie Macfarlane and Zelda Perkins. Named “Can’t Buy My Silence,” Julie and Zelda’s campaign aims to bring new law into effect in both Canada and the UK to stop victims being forced to exchange their own privacy for protecting their abuser in cases of harassment, discrimination, and bullying, and to stop employers (including schools, universities, and churches as well as both unionized and non-unionized workplaces) using NDAs to secretly “pass-the-trash” to other employers. …

Sunday Night Administrative Review
Issue 204: June 2026

Dear readers, I am working on a statutory interpretation primer for the benefit of practicing lawyers and administrative decision-makers. The primer is not a textbook or treatise. It is a much smaller and more usable how-to guide that I will update from time to time. It will be a detailed guide for how to navigate the confusion in this important area. The primer will be freely available. …

Librarian of Things
Now Is The Time of Facing Monsters

This keynote will address the contemporary intersection of technology and academic libraries using the framework of Eric Zimmerman’s Manifesto of the Ludic Century. Zimmerman argues that games are the definitional cultural form of the 21st century and that the logic of games will increasingly shape culture. …

Law of Work
Here’s What’s In the First UBER Collective Agreement in North America

The United Food and Commercial Workers (Local 1518) recently concluded the first ever collective agreement (CBA) with Uber in North America, a very significant achievement. Here’s my quick and dirty summary of the CBA. That agreement follows the certification of the UFCW by the BC Labour Relations Board last summer. The certification was based on the submission of union membership cards representing more than 55% of Uber employees in the bargaining unit, …

Blogue SOQUIJ
Child support: do not hide your salary increase

In order to maintain the value of child support, the Civil Code of Quebec requires parents to keep each other informed of the status of their respective income. Failure to comply with this obligation may have consequences, as demonstrated by a recent judgment. …

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*Randomness here is created by Random.org and its list randomizing function.