Colin Jackson

Congratulations to Schulich Law Associate Professor Naiomi Metallic (BA ’02, LLB ’05), Chancellor’s Chair in Aboriginal Law and Policy, who was named the 2026 Indspire Award Laureate for Law & Justice when the award recipients were announced on February 12. More: https://bit.ly/3O7kd91

I'm pretty sure it's still Norm Macdonald.

Selling to a U.S. company was an endgame for many Canadian businesses. The government is trying to change that | CBC News A new type of employee ownership comes at a time when the country is facing a wave of baby boomer entrepreneurs nearing retirement and an increased focus on strengthening the national economy in the f...

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We are hiring at UNB Law! Contact me if you’d like more information. www.unb.ca/hr/_assets/d...

No better place to do a PhD!

"International Hoops Terms With Cleanthony Early" has to be the wildest sports category in Jeopardy! history.

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Our former students doing good work on this case.

#rjweek2025 the Restorative Lab supported the organizing committee for the 2025 National Restorative Justice Symposium in Ottawa. The keynote panel ft. Jennifer Llewellyn, Chair in Restorative Justice at @schulichlaw.bsky.social who shared her vision of the future of restorative justice in Canada.

Tonight!

Might have been their best chance at winning with Embiid

Intent in Transactions Avoidance – A Need for Greater Certainty Dr. Matthew Chippin will present his paper "Intent in Transactions Avoidance – A Need for Greater Certainty," followed by a brief Q&A session, and an informal social gathering. Using case law and statutory analysis from England, Canada, and the United States, Dr. Chippin's paper highlights how intent-based standards in solvency transactions avoidance provisions have often produced uncertainty, inefficiency, and inconsistent application. By comparison, both the Irish Companies Act 2014, section 608, and the Canadian anti-deprivation rule offer a uniquely broad effects-based model that avoids many of these difficulties while still maintaining sensible limits. Matthew Chippin holds a PhD in Insolvency Law from the University of Leeds. He is currently a visiting scholar with the Marine & Environmental Law Institute and will be a visiting lecturer at the University of New Brunswick's Faculty of Law in January. Dr. Chippin has previously held visiting appointments at Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, and the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. 6 pm, Thursday, Nov 20, 2025 Location Weldon Law Building, Room W207 6061 University Ave. Additional Information RSVP to bizlaw@dal.ca A social mixer will follow the lecture in the 2nd floor Student Lounge.

Tomorrow at @schulichlaw.bsky.social -- come for the talk, stay for snacks and beverages!

Intent in Transactions Avoidance – A Need for Greater Certainty Dr. Matthew Chippin will present his paper "Intent in Transactions Avoidance – A Need for Greater Certainty," followed by a brief Q&A session, and an informal social gathering. Using case law and statutory analysis from England, Canada, and the United States, Dr. Chippin's paper highlights how intent-based standards in solvency transactions avoidance provisions have often produced uncertainty, inefficiency, and inconsistent application. By comparison, both the Irish Companies Act 2014, section 608, and the Canadian anti-deprivation rule offer a uniquely broad effects-based model that avoids many of these difficulties while still maintaining sensible limits. Matthew Chippin holds a PhD in Insolvency Law from the University of Leeds. He is currently a visiting scholar with the Marine & Environmental Law Institute and will be a visiting lecturer at the University of New Brunswick's Faculty of Law in January. Dr. Chippin has previously held visiting appointments at Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, and the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. 6 pm, Thursday, Nov 20, 2025 Location Weldon Law Building, Room W207 6061 University Ave. Additional Information RSVP to bizlaw@dal.ca A social mixer will follow the lecture in the 2nd floor Student Lounge.

Tomorrow at @schulichlaw.bsky.social -- come for the talk, stay for snacks and beverages!

How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies d...

"Before we ended our call, Goertzel told me about an event he’d just been to in San Francisco on AI consciousness and parapsychology:'“ESP, precognition, and whatnot.'"

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This is bad!

A poster featuring the cover of the The Secret Path animated film about Chanie Wenjack

Please join us this Wednesday for a free film screening of The Secret Path at 4 p.m. in the Ko'jua Okuom in the Downie Wenjack Legacy Space in the Killam learning commons. All are welcome! @dalhousie.bsky.social @downiewenjack.bsky.social

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.

It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.

The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

@schulichlaw.bsky.social is inviting applications for an Infectious Disease Innovation Governance (IDIG) Research Fellow. The posting closes on November 3, 2025: dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/19632

'Daniel Sampson was innocent': leading lawyers and law organizations in Canada call for executed man to be exonerated - Halifax Examiner My investigation of the Sampson case lays out the incontrovertible truth that Sampson was an innocent man framed by the RCMP, and then murdered by the state.

This is big.

‘Daniel Sampson was innocent’: leading lawyers and law organizations in Canada call for executed man to be exonerated

"In the 1950s, high incomes were taxed at 90%, and government had abundant revenue. Our top rates are too low now. Raise them. Problem solved."

As a Cdn tax historian, I find this popular idea irritating. Equality of sacrifice? Sure! Abundant public revenue? Yay! But how?

A 🧵 w/sources #cdnhist

No shade on my colleagues, but I think that's a great background for law school and great answer to the question.

Racial Capitalism and International Tax Law: The Story of Global Jim Crow (http://bit.ly/3JG8CLP) digs deep into the technical complexities of the global tax system (bet you didn't even know there was one!).

Some thoughts on the Air Canada flight attendants strike #AirCanada
1. Air Canada and the government expected the Minister's order to get the flight attendants back to work because unions in Canada tend to follow the law in bargaining. But

Yeah, the downtown business association tends to be pretty reasonable about stuff like this, which is reflected in the article but not the headline.

Not sure how many scientists here have tried Claude Code or similar command line coding assistants. I had a complicated family property tax problem that was best solved by a brute force Monte Carlo simulation approach, so I spent a few days coding up and analyzing a model with Claude Code.

For groups with lawyers, one wonders if they sub in briefs for taxes.

2/3

The ultimate cause is climate change. And pointing to the proximate cause misses the real reason for the fire.

There have always been people doing dumb stuff, carelessness, inattention, even arson!

But all of that only results in the terrible wildfires we see now because of climate change.

Image of the Pan African Flag. The text reads "Emancipation Day" The Halifax Fire & Emergency logo is included at the bottom.

Emancipation Day, officially recognized in Nova Scotia since 2021, lands on August 1 as a call to confront Canada’s history of slavery and the ongoing realities of anti-Black racism.