Legal Ease, Feb. 2
Intermittent sentences or “weekends”
In most occasion when people are sentenced to a prison term, they are taken directly from court to start serving whatever time in jail the judge has allotted to them.
Legal Ease, Jan. 26
Dogs running loose
Legal Ease, Jan. 16
Trapping in town—not a good idea
Sexual assault and sexual harassment are not the same thing
“Harassment—bullying—degrades the subject’s quality of life, messes with their head…”
Legal Ease, Jan. 8
What is civil discovery?
A red alert for the future Arctic
“Forging the Arctic’s future on fossil fuel development is not the way to move forward”
Legal Ease, Dec. 21
This Xmas, please look after yourself
Legal Ease, Dec. 20
How can I be liable?
Legal Ease, Dec. 12
Suing a corporation
How will climate change affect Arctic caribou and reindeer?
“Just how this iconic Arctic species will be affected in a warming climate remains unclear”
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Legal Ease, Dec. 5
Freedom of religion
“Edmonton Eskimos” is a racial slur and it’s time to stop using it
“Painful and abusive rhetoric has both emotional and financial costs”
Legal Ease, Nov. 13
What judges do
Canada must assert sovereignty over the Arctic while there’s still time
“Canada is at serious risk of losing control and sovereignty over its Arctic”
Open letter pitches new idea for Nunavut: local Inuit associations
“I can see so many good ways this would benefit well-being and improved quality of life”
Legal Ease, Nov. 1
What if I am too sick to tell the doctor what to do?
Legal Ease, Oct. 10
Crime and punishment
Legal Ease, Sept. 26
Am I free to go? Your rights on the street
Legal Ease, Sept. 12
Speedy Trials?
Legal Ease, Sept. 7
Certainty in Contract
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From tent birth to Inuk nurse: Growing up in, and out of, Nunavik, part five
“In my view, we have to take a massive, grinding and probably painful and costly turn towards mental health”
Legal Ease, Aug. 31
Living with debt
From tent birth to Inuk nurse: Growing up in, and out of, Nunavik, part four
“Inuit were not used to one of their own being a nurse and the French did not have any experience working with Inuit nurses”
From tent birth to Inuk nurse: Growing up in, and out of, Nunavik, part three
“Sometimes I would get as far as an interview and after they saw me I would get a rejection letter”
From tent birth to Inuk nurse: Growing up in, and out of, Nunavik, part two
“I remember at school, and out in public, white people sneering at breastfeeding, making it seem dirty”