February

With the federal election coming around the corner, the CBA will be working hard to put one of its key policy issues on the political radar.

You could see it in the packed rooms, with people spilling over into the overflow seating at the back. You could hear it in the noisy conversation at break times, strangers becoming comrades. And you could feel it in the air, the energy crackling in the room as the CBA’s first-ever Leadership Bootcamp for Racialized Lawyers kicked off in Toronto.

This membership renewal season, the CBA is pleased to offer you more for your membership. All CBA members now receive complimentary access to 52 professional development programs, representing 67 hours of accredited CPD.

Over the course of the next 9-to-10 months, the Canadian Bar Association will work with bar associations and civil society groups in Jamaica to help citizens, civil society representatives and legal professionals participate more fully in the justice reform process.

CBA International Initiatives presented the first two of five training modules related to the extractive industry to partners in East Africa earlier this year.

Summer may be on the horizon but the Competition Law Section isn’t slowing down.

Terrance S. Carter is the winner of this year’s Jane Burke-Robertson Award of Excellence in Charity and Not-for-Profit Law.

Congratulations to Shadi Varkiani, who has been named winner of this year’s Atrium essay contest presented by the Construction and Infrastructure Law Section. Read Shadi’s winning essay, Construction Law: A Comparison of Adjudication Frameworks in the UK and Ontario here (need link once posted) available in English only.

Congratulations! Kaitlin Brennan of the University of Ottawa is the winner of the 2019 CBA Real Property Law Student Essay Competition for her paper titled, Damages vs. Specific Performance: Land Contracts (paper only available in English).

We have two new CBA Advantage member offers to tell you about this month: