Sue Bailey
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Deeply in love with Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Tona Mills spent nearly a decade in solitary confinement. Her dying wish is that someone in power will ensure others don’t suffer as she did. @suebailey99.bsky.social has her story. nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
The ongoing effort to legislate judicial oversight of solitary confinement
‘It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails:’ Nelson Mandela
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November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Tona Mills spent nearly a decade in solitary confinement. Her dying wish is that someone in power will ensure others don’t suffer as she did. @suebailey99.bsky.social has her story. nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
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On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, the CBA is calling for changes to Canada’s immigration system to respond to the surge of inquiries from trans Americans fearing violence and persecution. @suebailey99.bsky.social has the story. www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
A pathway to safety for trans Americans
The CBA is calling for changes to Canada’s immigration system as it’s ill-equipped to respond to the emerging crisis south of the border
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November 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, the CBA is calling for changes to Canada’s immigration system to respond to the surge of inquiries from trans Americans fearing violence and persecution. @suebailey99.bsky.social has the story. www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
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Calling all legal journalists! 📣
The Law Commission of Canada and the Canadian Bar Association are pleased to invite applications for the 2026 LCC-CBA Journalism Fellowship, valued at $40,000 CAD.
Applications will be accepted until December 19, 2025: https://bit.ly/4nZr54g
The Law Commission of Canada and the Canadian Bar Association are pleased to invite applications for the 2026 LCC-CBA Journalism Fellowship, valued at $40,000 CAD.
Applications will be accepted until December 19, 2025: https://bit.ly/4nZr54g
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Calling all legal journalists! 📣
The Law Commission of Canada and the Canadian Bar Association are pleased to invite applications for the 2026 LCC-CBA Journalism Fellowship, valued at $40,000 CAD.
Applications will be accepted until December 19, 2025: https://bit.ly/4nZr54g
The Law Commission of Canada and the Canadian Bar Association are pleased to invite applications for the 2026 LCC-CBA Journalism Fellowship, valued at $40,000 CAD.
Applications will be accepted until December 19, 2025: https://bit.ly/4nZr54g
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Any lawyer who thinks they might have a problem with booze probably does. However, getting help can be daunting in a culture where unsustainable schedules are rewarded and acute stress is the norm. @suebailey99.bsky.social has that story. nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
Getting sober without stigma
International Lawyers in Alcoholics Anonymous is a bridge for lawyers and judges to seek help among peers, without worrying about running into someone they’ve prosecuted, defended or jailed
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October 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Any lawyer who thinks they might have a problem with booze probably does. However, getting help can be daunting in a culture where unsustainable schedules are rewarded and acute stress is the norm. @suebailey99.bsky.social has that story. nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
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“It makes us better people. It makes us better lawyers. It makes us better law firms to be doing this kind of work," says Grace Pastine. @suebailey99.bsky.social has that story. www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
An essential access to justice ‘stopgap’
With legal services financially out of reach for most, Norton Rose Fulbright lawyers worked with Pro Bono Ontario again this summer
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August 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“It makes us better people. It makes us better lawyers. It makes us better law firms to be doing this kind of work," says Grace Pastine. @suebailey99.bsky.social has that story. www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
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“I’m a servant of the people very directly now, but the practice of law is about serving people, so that’s the common thread between the two in a very significant way," says new Conservative MP David McKenzie. @suebailey99.bsky.social has his story. www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
The political parallels with law
New Conservative MP David McKenzie believes that responsibility to constituents ties his former career with his new one
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July 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
“I’m a servant of the people very directly now, but the practice of law is about serving people, so that’s the common thread between the two in a very significant way," says new Conservative MP David McKenzie. @suebailey99.bsky.social has his story. www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
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New Liberal MP Stephanie McLean vividly recalls being 10 years old when Anne McLellan knocked on her door. It left a lasting impression. @suebailey99.bsky.social has the first in a series of profiles of CBA members newly elected to the House of Commons.
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From one legislature to another
Newly elected Liberal MP Stephanie McLean made Alberta’s legislative assembly more family-friendly and stood up for seniors as a provincial MLA
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June 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
New Liberal MP Stephanie McLean vividly recalls being 10 years old when Anne McLellan knocked on her door. It left a lasting impression. @suebailey99.bsky.social has the first in a series of profiles of CBA members newly elected to the House of Commons.
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A failed referendum could have dire consequences, says Bruce McIvor of @firstpeopleslaw.com. “I think it’s very dangerous & it’s very reckless of the premier to be building up these unreasonable, illegal expectations.” @suebailey99.bsky.social has that story. www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
Playing with political fire
Legal experts say even a vote on Alberta separation is a non-starter without Treaty First Nation consent
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June 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
A failed referendum could have dire consequences, says Bruce McIvor of @firstpeopleslaw.com. “I think it’s very dangerous & it’s very reckless of the premier to be building up these unreasonable, illegal expectations.” @suebailey99.bsky.social has that story. www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
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Former Chief Justice Antonio Lamer once told journalist Stephen Bindman he’d like to come back in another life as the dog of Peter Cory because he "was the nicest man ever born." @suebailey99.bsky.social has that story and more. nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
The humans behind the decisions
As the Supreme Court of Canada turns 150 this year, former clerks, lawyers, and journalists are remembering a workplace unlike any other
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April 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Former Chief Justice Antonio Lamer once told journalist Stephen Bindman he’d like to come back in another life as the dog of Peter Cory because he "was the nicest man ever born." @suebailey99.bsky.social has that story and more. nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
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Since its inception by an Act of Parliament in 1875, the country's top court has been “sculpting the law … slowly developing a more refined and polished body of jurisprudence.” @suebailey99.bsky.social has the story. nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
The Supreme Court of Canada at 150
The anniversary is a chance to deepen public understanding of why the legal system, with all its flaws, underpins democracy — at a time when it’s under threat elsewhere
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April 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Since its inception by an Act of Parliament in 1875, the country's top court has been “sculpting the law … slowly developing a more refined and polished body of jurisprudence.” @suebailey99.bsky.social has the story. nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
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“There’s an assumption that the new crop of lawyers is going to be AI fluent, and they’re going to pull the firms along. I don’t think that’s the case at all," says @profbenperrin.bsky.social. That story from @suebailey99.bsky.social. www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
Re-educating law schools
While observers differ on how they think AI will ultimately shape the legal profession, they agree on this: how lawyers are educated, trained, and licensed must change to keep up
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March 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
“There’s an assumption that the new crop of lawyers is going to be AI fluent, and they’re going to pull the firms along. I don’t think that’s the case at all," says @profbenperrin.bsky.social. That story from @suebailey99.bsky.social. www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
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Avenues for Canada to clap back. @suebailey99.bsky.social has the story. nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
What is Canada's legal recourse in the throes of a trade war?
Canada could file challenges with the World Trade Organization, under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, and in domestic U.S. courts, but potential outcomes are mixed
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March 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Avenues for Canada to clap back. @suebailey99.bsky.social has the story. nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.