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If he had won the 1969 provincial election, Tom Berger would have been the first socialist premier in B.C. history.
But Berger’s NDP lost to W.A.C. Bennett’s Socreds. So Berger left politics and became one of the great Canadian legal figures of his time.
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Berger was the original lawyer for the Nisga’a Nation in the landmark Calder case in the 1960s and early ’70s, which established Aboriginal title in Canadian law.
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A toddler’s parents who have faced two trials related to his death say they want to take an Appeal Court order for a third trial to the Supreme Court of Canada.
David and Collet Stephan appeared Monday via video in a courtroom in Lethbridge, Alta.
“We are in the process of filing an application for leave to the Supreme Court of Canada in this matter,” said lawyer Shawn Buckley, who is representing David Stephan.
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LETHBRIDGE, Alta. A toddler’s parents who have faced two trials related to his death say they want to take an Appeal Court order for a third trial to the Supreme Court of Canada.
David and Collet Stephan appeared Monday via video in a courtroom in Lethbridge, Alta.
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“We are in the process of filing an application for leave to the Supreme Court of Canada in this matter,” said lawyer Shawn Buckley, who is representing David Stephan.
Do donors have too much influence over universities?
“I scarcely know anybody who works in the academy these days who isn’t concerned about donors’ influence,” Professor Denise Réaume told me resignedly. “It’s almost unheard of for someone to make a big money gift that is not targeted in some way. Nobody calls up a university and says, “Here’s $20 million, now go do good stuff with it”.
For this University of Toronto (UT) law professor as well as for Vincent Wong, a Toronto lawyer and former lecturer at the university’s law school, Exhibit A for undue donor influence is not the expected perk of naming of a building – as it is in so many American colleges and universities which have accepted gifts with strings attached from foundations such as Charles Koch Foundation.
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