If they move Egypt v Iran to Vancouver to avoid Seattle Pride, I personally commit to covering myself in pride flags and haunting the event.

This is my favourite time to consume lifestyle media - US thanksgiving. Like the home cooking Olympics. I don’t participate; just spectate.

“I remember sitting in the clinic with my husband one time when my kid was getting three vaccines covering seven diseases. I had this thought: I can’t undo this. If something goes wrong, I can’t take it back. I couldn’t shake the feeling that the doctors weren’t always right”

Weird location to advertise…

Passing this along. Please circulate as you see fit. Thank you.

Got great care @bcchresearch.bsky.social today for my kid. In and out with a brand new cast in under 3 hours. Great staff, beautiful facility. Feeling grateful.

This is an interesting, if perhaps not surprising, breakdown of the percentages of NYC based lawyers at each of these firms. See a trend? Paul Weiss - 82%; Skadden - 50%; Wilmer - 24%; Jenner - 16%; Perkins - 7%

Feel like I missed a great day of jokes because I had to do my day job.

Who at Outlook thought the whole emoji reaction to an email thing was a good idea. Because it's not.

I really, really love rainbows but I’m still deeply skeptical about rainbow sourdough.

@heyitsalexsu.bsky.social - I remember (or maybe hallucinated) that you had a Substack about how lawyers rely too often on proxies for quality (lack of typos, perfect cites). Did you write this? I’m struggling to find it in your archives….

I guess BlueSky took my (patriotism inspired) interest in the Four Nations hockey thing as a generalized interest in sports. My feed is flooded with NBA, WNBA and NFL content I can hardly understand.

Upon learning that Laurentien pencil crayons have been discontinued, my spouse just asked if the Minister of Canadian Heritage was aware, and what the plan was to address this.

I am remembering now why I listened exclusively to TV recap podcasts from 2016-2020…

Listening to the border wait times on a holiday Monday gave me a taste of this. 60 minutes southbound; 5 northbound.

People posting about Canada being at risk need to be clearer about whether they are posting about Trump or hockey.

Hope they took a retainer.

Fellow Vancouverites: we’ve been lied to. It snowed yesterday in Toronto and I’m informed that there were issues with the busses. It’s almost like the problem with fresh snow and busses is universal.

Is it possible that Trump would be less interested in Greenland if he relied on a map that didn’t distort its size? Cartographers for social justice!

I would be more convinced by the Government’s arguments for the need to ban TikTok If they said it was a scheme to get American men to eat excessive grams of protein per day, because that’s far more consistent with my experience of the app.

Arrived home, 5 days after Christmas. House is completely dark… Because the kids and spouse are in the after dinner laser tag hour.

I can’t breathe

Tonight six members of my family gave a talk, with slides, about what my brother Gus does for work. Including Gus. We still do not know what he does, but we do know my slides were the “3th” best. @guslockhart.bsky.social

It is a trip attending your kids’ first school concert in the same auditorium where you did your last school concert. In 1996.

Chrystia Freeland resignation is giving real Martin/Chretien vibes.

Me: I’d like a 3 foot tree. Kids: I’d like one that touches the ceiling.

This was a very compelling read - about a horrific abuse of power.

Thirty five years. So much potential erased. Geneviève Bergeron Hélène Colgan Nathalie Croteau Barbara Daigneault Anne-Marie Edward Maud Haviernick Maryse Laganière Maryse Leclair Anne-Marie Lemay Sonia Pelletier Michèle Richard Annie St-Arneault Annie Turcotte Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz

Despite my conscious choice to try to expand the music I listen to while working since April 2023, Taylor Swift remains my top artist. It would be easier to quit her if she were less good.

The feeling of abundance I get from having three different types of Bubly in the fridge is striking.

@johnhalecrimlaw.bsky.social - welcome. Your posts on Twitter disappeared for me about a year ago… hopefully I will be able to see them again!

8 yo: Mama, why do you have the Starbucks app? Me: because sometimes I like to buy hot chocolate. 8 yo: with marshmallows? Me: no, they don’t have marshmallows at Starbucks. 8yo: then what’s the point?

As a parent, I think of John Horgan’s mother, and her request that John do his “level best”. I ask my kids to do their level best, and in the back of my mind I hope they come to be as decent a person as he was. 💔

“Enjoying” the part of being a BC lawyer where Remembrance Day is a full holiday here, and isn’t one in the US or Ontario.

Enjoying the move of journalists to Bluesky. I’ve been lurking on Twitter since Musk, and found it hard to quit because of the journalists that still post there. Glad to see some movement here.

@richardzussman.bsky.social - you and Rob Shaw are basically the only reason I still check Twitter. Thanks for trying this out.

Having reviewed the terms of the HSBC Bank Canada to RBC transition, it is clear that the deal is not a win for consumers. Buhbye Royal Bank.

December 6, 1989 lands differently (and harder) the older I get.

A tale of two cities: Translink edition. Time to get home when the 33 is on schedule: 35 min. Time to get home when the 33 is not: 65 min.

Happy UofT law exams Santa Clause parade stress reaction day to those who (more than 10 years after graduation) continue to “celebrate”.

Just opened this app and it felt like old #lawtwitter for the first time in forever. Thanks for coming over folks.

Watching my baby brother appear at the HoC HUMA committee this morning - really proud, and ready to change my title to Gus Lockhart’s big sister.

So the last rigatoni Alfredo bite may have been one too many, but Pepinos does make good pasta.

Kid sick on Halloween. Bad luck. Kid sick on Halloween while spouse has court. Worse luck. Kid sick on Halloween while spouse has court and kid is not really that sick and is actually kind of bored, you know? Very bad luck.

Oooooo another study that confirms the lived experience of heterosexual parents trying to share the parenting workload. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Welcome back, Vancouverites with umbrellas who walk under the awnings. I missed you.