On Mar. 18, 2009, Hon. Jason Kenney, Min. of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, spoke at Huron College at UWO.

See the write-up and the discussion on Law is Cool.

Law students Rashmi Bhat and Omar Ha-Redeye had both been to the United Nations before, but only as observers. This year they returned as presenters.

“To be able to appear at the United Nations and actually present was a real honour,” says Ha-Redeye.

…The University of Western Ontario is the first Canadian University to present at the Annual General Meeting under the registration sponsorship of UN-accredited public policy agency.

The David Suzuki Foundation has published this book by Andrew Nikiforuk on Tar Sands – Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent.

It’s available for a free download until Mar. 20, 2009.

Nine Ivey MBA students and a Western Law student worked to make their mark on world policy-making by sharing information about Canadian HIV/AIDS initiatives at a recent United Nations (UN) meeting in New York City.

The students made three presentations to the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women – part of the Economic and Social Council – during its annual meeting March 2-13. Their presentations were sponsored by the National Council of Women of Canada, a governmental agency that works to improve the quality of life for women. They are the first Canadian university students to present at a UN meeting, with sponsorship from a UN-accredited public policy agency…

The initiative was organized by the Ivey MBA Diversity Committee. Bhat, a founding member of the committee, attended a UN meeting last year as an observer and then pitched the idea of presenting this year to the committee. Tarun Agarwal, an MBA student and Diversity Committee executive was interested, as well as seven other MBA students – Hetal Pandya, Pooja Sharma, Manju Das, Charles Newton Price, Erin MacKenzie, Tory McKillop and Imad Harb – and Omar Ha-Redeye, a Western Law student.

Above (L - R): Rashmi Bhat, Mary Scott, Omar Ha-Redeye, Pooja Sharma, Muriel Smith, Imad Harb, Tarun Agarwal. Mary Scott and Muriel Smith are from the National Council of Women of Canada.

Omar Ha-Redeye was part of a delegation from UWO that presented at the 53 Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations on Efforts by Canadian Organizations to Help Reduce the Social Impact of HIV/AIDS.

Omar participated in the 2009 Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie LLP Labour Law Advocacy Competition.

The case centered around the issue of mandatory retirement, and whether it would uphold a Charter challenge.

The problem was based on a real case at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, Vilven v. Air Canada, 2007 CHRT 36, and used cases such as McKinney v. University of Guelph (1990), 76 D.L.R. (4th) 545 (S.C.C.), and Re CKY-TV and C.E.P., Local 816 (Kenny) (2008), 175 L.A.C. (4th) 29 (Peltz).

Omar participated in the 2009 Corporate Securities Moot at the Federal Court in Toronto.

The case centered around the recent BCE case at the SCC.

The Centre for Public Theology at Huron College has uploaded profiles of its panel of advisors.

The Ontario Bar Association presented a panel of practitioners from different career stages and practice areas to share the realities of being a lawyer.
Topics included:

• How to get the most out of your articles, practical advice
• Ups and downs of your first year on the job
• Managing work loads
• Expectations and realities
• Sole practitioner: benefits and disadvantages
• Tips on starting a business
• Examining different areas of practicePractical advice from a panel of experienced practitioners
• Interactive discussion addressing your questions!
• Why being a CBA-OBA member will benefit you now and in the future

Panelists:

• Aaron Atcheson, Miller Thomson LLP
• Rod R. Refcio, MacKewn, Winder LLP
• Joshua Seib, Articling Student, Chown, Cairns LLP
• Jamie Trimble, Hughes Amys LLP
• Jennifer J. Quick, Cohen Highley LLP
• Moderator: Sharon Ann Kour, OBA Student Ambassador

Richi Jennings of Computerworld includes a post by Omar Ha-Redeye on the risks of file sharing in his review of IT Blogwatch:
Omar Ha-Redeye has the IT angle:

If Marine One can be hacked, ABC LLP is probably not that much more secure. Network administrators should probably monitor for peer-to-peer programs that may expose vulnerabilities to confidential client information.