Victoria ranked coziest city in Canada! ☺️ And the only Canadian city in the global top 10. ("Cozy" is measured by density of cafes, bookstores, cinemas, theatres and museums and more). www.allcleartravel.co.uk/blog/worlds-... #yyj

Whoa.

Hands up to colleagues at UVic and UBC, taking on this troubling narrative. vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

Aaaaaaah.

Welcoming Mary Anne Vallianatos (back) to UVicLaw! www.uvic.ca/law/news-and...

😞 RIP Graham Greene ♥️

An Israeli airstrike killed five Al Jazeera journalists, including one of the most prominent reporting from Gaza, the network said.

Welcome to #UVicLaw…

GOLD #4 🇨🇦 SUMMER MCINTOSH CHAMPIONSHIP RECORD Summer McIntosh breaks her own 400m IM championship record to win her fourth individual gold medal, tying Katie Ledecky as the only two women to have won 4 gold at one worlds. Five medals overall. One of the greatest meets ever.

I decided to address an uncomfortable truth: the rise of women's sports creates an increase in racist and misogynistic abuse. www.cbc.ca/sports/shire...

Cecile Dionne, who with her siblings found fame as the first quintuplets known to have survived infancy and who, of the five, was the most outspoken about the suffocating effects of celebrity, died on Monday in Montreal. She was 91.

Oooh, let’s go to this! #VicTheatre #VicFilmFest @elizabethsankey.bsky.social 🩷

There are less trans woman History Professors in the US than I have fingers on one hand, and one of them was just FIRED 🚨 Why? Anti-trans alumni/donors threatened to pull support form the university... substack.com/home/post/p-...

CANADIAN DOUBLE DOUBLE Summer McIntosh wins her second gold medal in as many nights. Another dominant win. Two for two. And how about this. After so many 4th place finishes Mary-Sophie Harvey wins her first individual world championship medal. What a moment for her.

A note from me on the significance of the recent move partially to decriminalise #abortion in England and Wales Against a backdrop of rising prosecutions for ‘later’ pregnancy endings, #decrim in Northern Ireland through human rights mechanisms, and uneven commitment to decriminalisation as a whole

Excellent piece by Jennifer Llewellyn @restorativelab.bsky.social about how restorative justice offers a better way to address harm, engage communities, and bring about culture change in sexual violence cases.

Judges who say witnesses are "not credible" mean: I think they're lying Saying that to a person who has reported experiencing sexual violence is deeply problematic There are other ways to find that the Crown has not met the burden of proof required to put someone in jail

Support, strength and allyship for all survivors today.

Hockey Canada and Kloubakov. Raging.

If you see a professor sobbing in the foyer of the Hickman building, don’t worry it’s just this proud parent. #InuitArt #SilapInua

Eeep. Kloubakov coming down next Thursday! decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/news...

Today’s Supreme Court decision in R. v. I.M. cites Prof. Debra Parkes’ research, which shows that courts often order adult life sentences for youth convicted of murder, despite the constitutional presumption of diminished moral responsibility of youth. decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-...

TUESDAY: Stephen Colbert criticizes CBS News' $16 million settlement with Trump, calling the payment to resolve Trump's absurd lawsuit it a "big fat bribe." THURSDAY: CBS News announcing it is canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Last episode will be May 2026

The Indigenous Law Journal is now available on CanLII! Only the 2023 issue is currently live, but the whole catalogue has been added to our publication queue. Many thanks to Professor Douglas Sanderson and ILJ editors Brianna Brumen and Navya Sheth for making this possible! zurl.co/ctvqu

The GoA demands that Canada undertake not re-introduce Bill C-61, First Nations Clean Water Act. This post, with @molszyns.bsky.social, argues that Bill C-61 should be re-introduced but also strengthened to recognize the right of First Nations to protect their source water supplies. 1/2

The Welsh Government are doing a consultation on its pro-trans schools policy. UK GCs are trying to push it in an anti-trans direction. If you possibly can, please join me in filling out the consultation to reinforce the pro-trans stance. Deadline 31 July. www.gov.wales/rights-respe...

“This moment necessitates that we trace & map the linkages between the various forms of oppression & harm we witness, locate their manifestations in the spaces we move in, & draw on these lessons to fight back.” @norajaber.bsky.social & @leilaullrich.bsky.social reflect on being feminist fugitives.

Representative for Children and Youth data shows gender diverse young people are twice as likely to experience life-altering injuries and suicidality than their cis-gender peers. Read our report, The Right to Thrive. rcybc.ca/wp-content/u...

Important insights from @jcyliew.bsky.social and Natasha Bakht on academic freedoms, intersectionality, missed opportunities for dialogue, and Jane Doe. A model for how to move through conflict and misjudgment, constructively and with care. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 🤲

I presented @futureoflawassoc.bsky.social on AI & the Future of #LegalEd abt building crucial #problemsetting skills through writing, along w Jonny Hall & @csimmonds.bsky.social (#Problembasedlearning & AI), Brian Tang (Authentic Team #Projectbasedlearning) & Samuel Dahan (No-code Legal AI Creation)

Favourite Queer Reads: 2024-2025: Ocean Vuong, On Earth we are Briefly Gorgeous; Jacob Tobia, Sissy; Henry Hoke, Open Throat; Sarah Winman, Tinman; Eric Chacour, What I Know About You; Laurie Frankel, This is How it Always Is; Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers; Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep 🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Could having a random straight lady host a lesbian dating show actually be a good thing? @melwoods.me makes the case for JoAnna Garcia Swisher, the straight host of Netflix's #TheUltimatumQueerLove

Pride is a protest, but rainbow donuts are delicious 🌈

We should give them our lunch money, too. www.canada.ca/en/departmen...

Legal Education & the Human Lawyer was a day spent teaching & learning from a wonderful group of presenters and attendees. I hope others will join the conversation. Keep an eye out for videos soon at lnkd.in/gDGU-NcA & a special issue of The Law Teacher: The International Journal of Legal Education.

Loved this. #MyMomJayne 🫶

Tapper writes this without acknowledging that Milk himself served in the US Navy during the Korean War, or that Milk was assassinated while serving honorably in public office

British Columbia·Breaking B.C. MLA Bowinn Ma's constituency office targeted with explosive device Device detonated and caused damage to building, but no one injured, says email to MLAs www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Justice Sotomayor dissenting on birthright citizenship case: "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."

Hands up to @audreyfried.bsky.social and her team for organizing an amazing and important symposium on: educatinghumanlawyers.com. Check the website in the coming weeks for slides, recordings, and transcripts of the amazing presentations and conversations. 🙌🏼

Thank you @leafnational.bsky.social the opportunity to work on some of the most important questions of our time with some of Canada‘s leading feminist thinkers has been a privilege of this life. 🙌🏼

Registration closes tomorrow - join us! educatinghumanlawyers.com