We are chatting with Julia Kingdon about the new Law Students Section video project 20 minutes, 5 minutes. We look over the different guests and their atypical career paths.

Julia has an undergraduate degree in International Development, a master’s degree in Rhetoric and recently completed her Juris Doctor degree. She’s the vice chair of the law students section of the CBA who put on this series.

The Law Students Section launched the video project: 20 Questions, 5 Minutes

• To watch the video featuring Erin Brook on Family Law
• To watch  the video featuring  Melissa Hazelton on Criminal Law 
• To watch the video featuring  Aaron Baer on Corporate Law 
• The video featuring  Heather Hettiararchchii about labour and employment law will be put online in the coming weeks.

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An interview with Jennifer David to discuss the CBA Truth and Reconciliation Toolkit For Firms.

Jennifer David (Chapleau Cree First Nation),  a skilled and experienced communicator, project manager, planner, facilitator and lead development of CBA Truth and Reconciliation Toolkit.

To consult the CBA Truth and Reconciliation Toolkit.

To consult the CBABC Reconciliation Response Plan (RRP)

To consult The Path - Your Journey Through Indigenous Canada

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In this episode, President Brad Regher will talk with two private lawyers who have dealt extensively with public servants in the course of their work. They discuss call to Action number 57 which calls for governments at all levels to educate civil servants on the history of Aboriginal peoples in Canada, treaties and Aboriginal rights, Indigenous law and Aboriginal-Crown relations

Maggie Wente, a partner with Olthius Kleer Townshend in Toronto, is a member of Ontario’s Serpent River First Nation. Maggie has a broad practice serving First Nations governments, their related entities, businesses and not-for-profit corporations. She is past-President of the Board of Directors at Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto, and served as a Commissioner on the Ontario Human Rights Commission for nine years.

David Nahwegahbow, founding partner of Nahwegahbow Corbiere in Orillia, has represented First Nations in land claims, treaty and Aboriginal rights litigation and negotiation. He’s a founding member of the Indigenous Bar Association. And he’s Anishinabe from Whitefish River First Nation in Ontario.

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With our guest Shelley Birenbaum, we discuss the CBA’s influence on the implementation of Bill C-7 and the important updates to Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying legislation.

Shelley Birenbaum is a member of the CBA’s End of Life Working Group and a health lawyer with the Ontario Bar for over 25 years. She specializes in the legal and ethical aspects of assisted dying.

In this episode, we talk about the major issues that the Working Group fought for (eligibility for people with a psychiatric condition, advance requests for MAID, people under age of majority), the major impediments to MAiDs that the CBA took on apart from these issues, the restrictions surrounding a “reasonably foreseeable death” and much more.

Click here to view the work of The End of Life Working Group of the CBA, the influence the CBA had on Bill C-7, the overall efforts of the working group and the National Magazine article Balancing autonomy and protection.

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This episode was recorded before the horrific, hate-motivated attack on a Muslim family in London, Ontario, on June 7, 2021.

An interview with David Matas, senior legal counsel for B’Nai Brith Canada, who was instrumental in drafting the CBA’s submission on these issues of online hate. We talk Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, procedural safeguards and the balance between freedom of speech and protection against online hate.

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Our guest today is Ray Leclair, vice president of public affairs at LawPRO, co-author of the Mortgage Instructions Toolkit.

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President Brad Regehr discusses the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples with Aimée Craft and Brenda Gunn.

Aimée Craft is Anishinaabe-Métis, an associate professor in the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, and has been voted one of the top 25 influential lawyers in Canada. She’s an expert in Canadian Aboriginal law and an internationally recognized expert in the areas of Indigenous laws, treaties and water.

Brenda Gunn is Métis, and is an associate professor at the University of Manitoba’s Robson Hall Faculty of Law. She completed her LL.M in Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy at the University of Arizona. She developed a handbook on implementing UNDRIP that is becoming one of the main resources in Canada on the declaration.

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Aimée participated in a previous episode on our French channel Juriste branché about the final report Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. 

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Bonus episode presented by CBA National, After the pandemic: How lawyers can make ESG a reality. Ep 12

In this month’s episode, Yves Faguy speaks with Warren Ragoonanan, one of the founding partners of WRD LLP in Toronto, a law firm that serves businesses and entrepreneurs who want to solve social and environmental challenges. They discuss a range of topics from the evolution of ESG and defining a corporation’s purpose to one of the biggest myths surrounding shareholder primacy.

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President Brad Regehr discusses the recognition of Aboriginal justice systems with John Borrows and Naiomi Metallic.

Professor John Borrows is the Canadian Research Chair in Indigenous Law at the University of Victoria, and has written extensively on Indigenous legal traditions. He is Anishinaabe/Ojibway and a member of the Chippewa of the Nawash First Nation in Ontario.

Naiomi Metallic holds the Chancellor’s Chair in Aboriginal Law and Policy at Dalhousie University’s Schulich School of Law. She’s been on the Best Lawyer In Canada list in Aboriginal law since 2015. She is from the Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation in Gespe’gewa’gi (Gaspé region of Quebec).

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Naiomi Metallic participated in a previous episode  with former president Ray Adlington Conversations with Indigenous Lawyers

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Bonus Episode presented by CBA National, After the pandemic: Addressing the gender wage gap in a Covid recovery. Ep 11

In this month’s episode, Yves Faguy speaks with Carly Romanow and Catherine Ewasiuk of the CBA’s National Women Lawyers Forum to discuss the impact of the Covid she-cession and why we need better data to understand wage gaps in the legal profession.

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