Camille Labchuk

Not on Twitter, and not following the 2010 Toronto municipal race? Then you’re probably baffled by the title of this blog.
Over the past few months, chatter about Toronto’s municipal election has heated up, especially on Twitter — everyone’s favourite social media network. (Seriously, Facebook is over. Get on Twitter.) It was through Twitter that a [...]

Like the last few blogs I’ve written, this one will start with a mea culpa for being such a bad blogger. Law school has been way busier than last semester, and I think we’ll all just have to accept that I won’t be writing regularly until the year wraps up in April.
Today’s post is a [...]

I’m finally back! I was forced to take a blogging hiatus to deal with end-of-semester papers and exams, but I’m happy to report that business is now wrapped up, and I survived my first semester of law school relatively intact. It’s now time to catch up on hundreds of emails, do some holiday socializing, and [...]

“Climate change is mankind’s defining crisis, and demands a commensurate international response.”
This is the resolution that Green Party leader Elizabeth May and acclaimed British journalist George Monbiot will debate at tonight’s Munk Debate. The two will argue for a robust, global response to the climate crisis in order to halt out-of control global warming, [...]

UPDATE: Watch the press conference here.
Exciting new today out of Quebec — Elizabeth May has brought former Radio-Canada personality Jacques Rivard on board as the Green Party’s new Quebec deputy leader. Rivard replaces Claude William Genest, who has served as deputy leader since 2006.
I’m thrilled the Greens have been able to attract a Quebec deputy [...]

I should be writing a paper, but I just saw something on Twitter that made me mad enough to write a blog post instead. According to Toronto Transit Commission director of corporate communications Brad Ross, the TTC will suspend all token sales tomorrow, and introduce a temporary adult ticket that will expire on January 31, [...]

The Green Party of Ontario leadership and policy convention is taking place this weekend in London, Ontario. I’d love to be there, but I’ve got law school assignments, research and reading to tackle instead. If you’re in a similar sad situation, don’t fret! Thanks to the wonders of the internet, we have access to back-to-back [...]

Like most Canadians, Remembrance Day makes me reflect on the courageous men and women who have served in the military, fought for our country and fought for the kind of world we want to live in. I’m thinking of the risks they endured, the sacrifices they made, and the lives that were given in the [...]

I’ve been planning a post like this since I first got my blog up and running. In fact, you may even be reading the first entry in a series of posts on the merits (or should I say, lack thereof) of those lucky few who won the patronage lottery with Senate appointments. Today, I’m conferring [...]

Although I don’t have my own copy yet, I’m really looking forward to reading Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book, Eating Animals, published this week. The noted novelist has now added a non-fiction and deeply personal book to his list of works with Eating Animals, where he explores society’s paradoxical relationship with the animals. On the [...]