Crime and Punishment
The week before last, Sommit Luangpakham was sentenced to two years less a day for his actions in his horrific collision with five cyclists in 2009. As summarized by the CBC, "[t]he five cyclists were...
View ArticleMore Crime, No Punishment Yet
Just this week, I heard a story at my daughter's swim club of a parent who cycles all winter. Apparently, he was recently overtaken by a car at a stop light. The driver gunned the engine repeatedly...
View ArticleFrom Snow to Sidewalk: The Winter/Spring Recap
It has been months since I blogged. The vice dean gig that I presently occupy consumes time (and when not time, energy) in pithy quantities. So it is past time for a recap. First, thanks to those...
View ArticleWhat makes you stronger may kill you...
...at least that's one inference from a much publicized Mayo Clinic Proceedings study examining endurance activity and "potential adverse cardiovascular effects" (namely "pathologic structural...
View ArticleTwo at Tremblant: Summer Recap
It is time for an update on the third of the Four Seasons: summer. Thanks again to everyone supporting the scholarship. Summer is the season of triathlon, and in the Four Season plan, involved the...
View ArticleAutumn and a bravo zulu on the Four Seasons
I don't really know what "bravo zulu" means. I think it means "congratulations". In this context, it risks being an icky self-congratulations -- quite self-indulgent. But I worked the military lingo...
View ArticleDoping and the Fraud on Dreams
Last night, I finished reading USADA's report into the Armstrong matter. Not the press reports. Not the counterspin. The report. And it reads like a series of small streams that come together as a...
View ArticleuOttawa Law Running Group up and, well, Running
We are going into a third week of running in our nascent uOttawa Running Group. So far it includes a few students and faculty training for the Ottawa Race Weekend 10k or Half Marathon and fundraising...
View ArticleLeslie C Green Scholarship in International Humanitarian Law
I am pleased to announce that through the generosity of many individual donors, including some who followed this blog, the Canadian Council on International Law will be awarding its first Leslie C...
View ArticleAuthorized screening of Town of Runners and panel discussion with elite local...
March 15 Admission by donation in support Girls Gotta Run Foundation. ABOUT THE MOVIE Town of Runners is a feature documentary about young runners from Bekoji - an Ethiopian highland town which...
View ArticleLeslie C Green Veterans Scholarship: Application Details
I am pleased to announce that after last year's "Four Seasons of Moving Vigorously", fundraising for a law scholarship for a Canadian Forces veteran, the Canadian Council on International Law is now...
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