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. Vancouver Immigration Law Blog 2. Legal Post Blog 3. Paw & Order 4. NSRLP 5. The Factum

Vancouver Immigration Law Blog
Quoted in Ritesh Matlani’s Medium piece: “The pandemic and immigrants — when your fresh start needs a reboot”

Recently, I haven’t been as active as I wanted to be. Partially because others have been doing a fantastic job and I am a huge believer in not overcrowding the information airways when others are doing such good work (shoutouts especially to Ravi Jain and the CBA Immigration Section Executives, Steven Meurrens, Julianna Daley and Migrant Workers Centre, Jim Wu, FACLBC, among many, many others). …

Legal Post Blog
Howard Levitt: If I think my workplace is unsafe, do I have the right to stay home?

Fear of the virus does not permit you to avoid work unless you can prove through a health and safety inspector that the work is genuinely unsafe. While social distancing is encouraged and working from home is an effective social distancing measure, employers have no obligation to allow you to work from home. …

Paw & Order
#53: Kendra Coulter On Tiger King, Covid, & Our Blatant Disrespect for Animals

Hosts Camille and Peter sit down for a fascinating interview with professor Kendra Coulter of Brock University. The wide-ranging discussion covers her important empirical research on animal law enforcement models, and her recent op ed on why our obsession with Tiger King says a lot about how disrespecting animals led to the coronavirus pandemic in the first place. Check out Kendra’s study on Manitoba’s law enforcement model, co-authored with Brittany Campbell. …

NSRLP
Sounds Good, But What Are We Missing?

COVID-19 may be the best lesson in a generation (though a brutal one) that we cannot always rely on the same old rules and practices, or we may find ourselves suddenly adrift from everything that is familiar and comfortable. For example, the courts have always been a place, right? (In contrast to a “service” that does not require a physical presence, as Richard Susskind and others propose.) Moving courts now from being a place to being a service requires the deployment of technologies that, with a few important exceptions, the justice system has resisted for years. …

The Factum
Hot Off The Press – Family Law in BC: Quick Reference Tool

This popular set of postcards has been freshened up with new design elements and content updates. The tool provides a helpful overview of BC family law and referrals to more information and legal help. …

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