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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF RÉDACTEUR EN CHEF Zach Goobie ART DIRECTOR DIRECTRICE ARTISTIQUE Hanna Rioseco LAYOUT EDITOR ÉDITEUR DE MISE EN PAGE Jamey Irwin COPY EDITORS SECRÉTAIRES DE RÉDACTION Nathan Leung Muna Tojiboeva COLOUMNISTS CHRONIQUEURES ET CHRONIQUEUSES Nicolas Kamran Sofia Watt Sjöström CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE COLLABORATEURS ET COLLABORATRICES Ashli Lu Special thanks to Prairie Koo for designing the layout. ~ The Quid Novi is published weekly by the students of the Faculty of Law at McGill University. Production is made possible through the direct support of students.

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CETTE SEMAINE...

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INSIGHTS

COMMUNAUTÉ

EVENTS

3 | BEING A LAW STUDENT

2 | LETTER FROM THE

9 | THE 4OTH ANNIVERSARY

DURING HISTORICAL WORLD EVENTS

4 | BILL 96 AND ENGLISH CEGEPS A Never-Ending Conflict

5 | AFGHANISTAN TURNS

GIRLS AWAY FROM SCHOOLS

10 | WHY BEING A LEADER

IS MORE THAN JUST THE ACT OF LEADING Intangibles, like Emotional intelligence, are vital to relate to others

11 | MA PRÉDICTION POUR LES TROPHÉES DE LA LNH POUR LA SAISON 2021-2022

EDITOR The Quid is Back in the Halls of the Faculty

5 | McGILL LAW JOURNAL

OF THE CANADIAN CHARTER: UNFINISHED BUSINESS McGill Center for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism

PODCAST New episodes now streaming

4 | INSOLVENCY INSTITUE

OF CANADA Law Student Writing Award Program 2021-2022

8 | CANADIAN DEFENCE

LAWYERS FOUNDATIONS $5000 Essay Prize for a paper relevant to the defence of civil litigation

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR The Quid is Back in the Halls of the Faculty Zach Goobie | 3L

Over the past few weeks, I have had the pleasure of meeting many students during the Quid’s annual recruitment campaign. I feel very lucky that we have had such great interest for positions this year, and I think that we will be able to aptly represent the McGill Law community.

When I explain what this newspaper is to my peers, many seem shocked by the lack of explicit sections compared to most papers.

I was a sports editor during my undergraduate degree, so when I first started writing for this paper in 1L I was very surprised that there were no production meetings before the paper was published.

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However, I have come to appreciate and love the laissez-faire style of the Quid Novi, because it allows students the opportunity to make this paper what they want it to be. I have always thought that student journalism was the epitome of freedom of expression because these publications are not owned by conglomerates, do not rely on revenue from advertisements, and are usually funded by student fees. Therefore, I hope that students take this opportunity to write about their passions and to thoroughly express themselves. Moreover, I aspire to build a space for respectful debate;

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the expression audi alteram partem graces one of the Faculty’s entrances and is incredibly important in a divided world.

Avec le retour du fameux Coffeehouse et une panoplie d’activités intéressantes à la faculté, j’espère que vous allez prendre le temps de partager vos activités parascolaires et vos exploits personnels avec nous. Même si vous n’avez pas posé votre candidature pour une position permanente au sein du Quid, j’espère que vous allez nous envoyer des articles de temps en temps. N’oubliez pas de soumettre vos articles à quid.law@mcgill.ca avant 17h les jeudis afin d’être publié le mardi.

Please follow our socials to keep up to date with everything going on at the paper. We hope to bring back polls to see what our readership thinks on different issues and to interview students and staff to get firsthand perspectives.

This year as Co-Editor-In-Chief, please do not hesitate to send me your ideas about how to improve this weekly for our readership, stop me in the halls or email me at quid.law@mcgill.ca (but please don’t interrupt my ping pong games).

STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL COINCIDENCE (True Story)

Sofia Watt Sjöström | 2L

Hi! As a columnist, I usually write essay-style articles about law school or vaguely legal subjects. Before law school, however, I mostly wrote short stories. Last week, when I sat down to write my first Quid article of the new academic year, it seems I slipped into old habits… Let me know if you like it! ~ This is a true story about a beautiful song and a strange coincidence.

While my Swedish grandmother was in town last week, I offered to play some background music. “What do you want to listen to?” I asked, mostly to be polite.

My grandma answered something in another language, maybe in Portuguese, beginning with an A. I had never heard of the song, but I assumed it was something sophisticated, European, and obscure. Potentially challenging.

I hesitated, thinking of a way out. “That might be hard to find…”

“Why don’t you just play your own music?”

“Okay,” I quickly said.

I opened Spotify and chose my own song: “Waters of March”. It was an inoffensive tune, so I figured it would be appropriate for my grandmother. More importantly, I was obsessed with it; it was at the top of my list.

I first heard “Waters of March” about two weeks earlier, whilst watching a movie on a plane.

The movie was The Worst Person in the World. This is a Norwegian film, though it was recommended to me not by my Swedish friends and family, but by a friend in Canada. I loved this

film and truly recommend it. “Waters of March” plays at the very end, just as the credits begin to roll.

It’s a strange song. The tune is kind of melancholy. The lyrics are almost nonsensical. Take the first stanza – A stick, a stone; It’s the end of the road; It’s the rest of a stump; It’s a little alone…

The text’s apparent senselessness appeals to me. Like the movie, this song seems to be about human life’s strange turbulence: chaotic, dashed, full of fear and hope. It has a light and innocent quality, like a children’s rhyme, yet it also feels heavy with something underneath. When I heard it on the plane, I listened, quite transfixed, until the end.

It left a lasting impression, obviously. After it played unbeckoned a few times in my head, I looked for it on Spotify, and discovered that it was

by Art Garfunkel—as in, Simon and Garfunkel. Still, I wasn’t too interested in Garfunkel’s other music. I just listened to this one on repeat.

So, when I chose the song for my grandma, it made sense. It was my grandma’s reaction that was strange.

“But! How did you find it so fast?” she exclaimed. She seemed to think I was playing her song request.

I raised an eyebrow. “No, this isn’t your song,” I began, “it’s my music.”

“No,” she said, “this is Águas de Março! I’m sure. It’s the same song.”

I shook my head. It wasn’t the first time my grandmother had gotten confused over this sort of thing, but I still felt vaguely troubled. The music

was on pretty loud. How could she not hear the difference?

“It’s a song by Art Garfunkel,” I tried. “I’ve been listening to it a lot.”

“It’s Águas de Março,” she insisted. “It is!”

I bit my lip. “Um.” “Just—just listen to it!”

We listened. … The oak when it blooms A fox in the brush A knot in the wood The song of a thrush…

My grandma burst out, “It is Águas de Março!”

I felt like I had lost my mind. I had no idea what song she was talking about. I had chosen my own music— how was this possible?

“Look, Sofia, it’s the same song. The words are weird—it is in English— but it is!”

I felt tired and bewildered, but I decided to humour her: “Okay, let’s look it up.” It made no sense—I had chosen this music totally on my own—but there was a possibility that the song was a cover. Had Art Garfunkel really done a cover of an old Brazilian song?

As it so happens, yes, he had!

This is what Wikipedia had to say: “’Waters of March’ is a Brazilian song composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim in 1972. Jobim wrote both the Portuguese and English lyrics. The lyrics, originally written in Portuguese, do not tell a story, but rather present a series of images that form a collage…”

“Oh, my gosh!” I said. “Waters of March, Águas de Março. Obviously, it’s the same song—the title means the same thing! Just… How did both of us choose it simultaneously? I’d never 3

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I hadn’t even realized Garfunkel’s version was a cover—but somehow, my grandma and I had chosen the same exact song in different languages. Quite spontaneously.

“I’m sorry,” I added, still flabbergasted. “I thought you were going crazy for a second there!”

She laughed. “But—it’s a song from the 1970s! I loved it back then— Brazilian music was quite popular on Swedish radio. Still, I hadn’t heard it in decades until about, what can it be, a year ago…”

It turned out that she heard the song again when a Swedish radio commentator played it—the original Brazilian version, in Portuguese—in Summer 2021. My grandma had been so happy to hear this old melody again; it felt like a lost friend. Still, she hadn’t heard it again since then. Not even when The Worst Person in the World was released just a few months later, and its soundtrack included Art Garfunkel’s version in English.

Although before that, she took the time to save a document with both the Brazilian text and its Swedish translation on her computer, because she “thought it was so beautiful.”

A year later, on a visit to Canada, her granddaughter asked her to pick a song, and that old tune came to mind.

It wasn’t a super popular or trendy tune. We just both happened to like it.

It exists in many languages, so maybe you know it in another.

Sometimes, in strange coincidences like these, life feels unexpectedly beautiful. Although this isn’t a typical Quid article, I wanted to share this story. I want to pay attention to the otherwise mundane moments that give me reason for wonder and joy— even now, when life often feels too busy, and everything else seems more pressing.

This isn’t a call to action, so don’t feel obliged to do the same. I just hope I was able to capture and give some of the strangeness and beauty of this moment to you, too.

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MEET THE TEAM Luther Mourinet |1L Layout editor

What drew you to the Quid? I used to do multi-media art in high school and really enjoyed it. Once I saw the Quid was looking for someone to do the layout, I felt like it would be a fun to get back into it.

science. Après un an en science de la santé, j’ai compris que les sciences humaines et le droit m’intéressaient et me rejoignaient beaucoup plus. La profession d’avocat a toujours été dans mes choix de carrières, donc me voici!

What did you do before McGill Law? J’ai fait un DEC en sciences humaines profil individus avec mathématiques au Cégep Collège de Maisonneuve.

Qu’aimes-tu faire quand tu n’étudies pas ? I like to play volleyball especially with the mcgill law volleyball society (go follow them on IG @volleyball.lawmcgill )

Quel était ton cours préféré avant de commencer à la faculté de droit?

I really enjoyed my French literature and philosophy classes.

Where are you from / where have you lived? Je suis né à Montréal, mais j’ai grandi à Laval. Cependant, mes deux parents sont originaires de la France.

Was law school a dream come true or a happy accident? Do you want to be a lawyer? J’ai toujours eu un intérêt pour le droit, mais en arrivant au cégep je visais une carrière plus en

As-tu un quartier préféré à Montréal? J’adore le Plateau, mais rien ne peut battre le vue duVieux-Port.

Où aimerais-tu travailler dans cinq ans? I would like to work in a big law firm in New York (fingers crossed) maybe in IP litigation but it’s still early to say for sure.

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Vol 44 ● No 2 Panel of Judges

Law Student Writing Award Program 2021-2022 A competition for full-time undergraduate students in Canadian Law Schools The IIC Law Student Writing Award Program provides

PANEL CHAIR SHAYNE KUKULOWICZ Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP Toronto, ON

Members

the opportunity for undergraduate law students to explore and discover the many facets of corporate insolvency and restructuring law through the research and development of papers.

The Insolvency Institute of Canada The IIC is Canada’s premier private sector insolvency organization. It is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of excellence and thought leadership in commercial insolvency and restructuring policy and practice in Canada. Members of the IIC are drawn from the most senior and experienced members of the insolvency community. Membership is limited to 135 insolvency practitioners (trustees, lawyers and restructuring professionals) who are joined by representatives of regulatory and compensation bodies, major financial institutions and prominent members of the academic community.

2020-2021 Award Winners

JEFFREY LEE MLT Aikins Saskatoon, SK

MICHEL MARLEAU Ernst & Young Inc. Montreal, QC

18th Anniversary of the IIC Law Student Writing Award Program Our 2021-2022 program marks the 18h year of the IIC offering the Law Student Writing Awards, which was designed to support and reward academic scholarship in the area of corporate insolvency and restructuring.

This program gives undergraduate students the opportunity to research insolvency issues and bring their proposals for reform to the attention of the business and legal community which they are about to enter.

Eligibility • The competition is open to law students in full-time undergraduate law programs at Canadian universities. Entries may be submitted in English or French.

• Each student is limited to one entry. There is no limit to the number of entries that may be submitted from one university, but each paper must bear the endorsement of a law faculty member.

• Papers must be no longer than 3,000 words (exclusive of footnotes) and must be typed. Papers may be jointly written.

• Papers must be submitted electronically to the executive director at the email provided in the entry form by the deadline.

• The paper must be focused on restructuring in an insolvency context.

1st Place, $7,500

Maria Belykh, Western University, will be recognized for her achievement at the 2021 IIC Annual General Meeting and will be a guest at the IIC National Annual Conference in Kelowna, BC, Sepember 8-11, 2022.

“CCAA Supplier Protection: A System in Need of Reform”

DAVID BISH Torys LLP Toronto, ON

2nd Place, $5,000

Kristen Robertson, Queen’s University “It’s All in the Effect: The AntiDeprivation Rule Post-Chandos Construction”

LANCE WILLIAMS McCarthy Tétrault LLP Vancouver, BC

3rd Place, $2,500

Candace Formosa, Thomson River’s University “Dampening the Effect of Redwater through a Reverse Vesting Order”

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JENNIFER STAM Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Toronto, ON

2021-2022 Awards

First, second and third prizes of $7,500, $5,000 and $2,500 will be awarded. Papers may also be selected for publication in the Journal of the Insolvency Institute of Canada, alongside submissions from the leading experts in the field. The prize for the first-place winner will be presented at the IIC’s annual conference being held September 8 –11, 2022 at the Grand Okanagan Resort in Kelowna, BC. Both the first place winner and their faculty sponsor will be invited guests of the IIC at the conference, with complimentary conference registration (including accommodations). Travel costs will be reimbursed. If a co-authored paper is selected for first place, the division of the prize and the reimbursed travel costs will be entirely at the discretion of the winners.

All papers provided to the Judges are confidential and do not include the author’s name or university affiliation to ensure impartiality during the judging and winning paper selection process.

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FIVE THINGS I WISH I HAD KNOWN IN APRIL 2021 A Letter to 1Ls

Nicolas Kamran | 2L

Dear 1Ls, Those of you who know me as your group assistant in Professor Jouet’s course are hopefully aware that I take genuine pleasure in giving advice. Receiving it is a different story. In April 2021, my tendency for stubbornness translated into a frustrating exam and summer period. I walked into situations blinded by my belief that doing things “my way” would result in success at every turn. Thankfully, things ended up going well. But they were much harder than they needed to be, and it does not have to be that hard for you. Here are five things I learned over the past year that I wish I had known in April 2021.

1 – The results you receive in 1L do not determine who you are as a student.

Here is a brief story. During my fall integration week, I wound up in breakout room hosted by an upper-year student. They invited us nervous 1Ls to ask any and every question, and ask we did. One student ended up asking them how to handle 1L exam grades. The upper-year student answered the following: “Well, just brace for it. The type of student you are in 1L is pretty much who you will be for the rest of law school. You will know who you are after 1L”.

An upside of writing for the Quid is that it allows me to tell you how this is utter bullshit. Exams are a moment in time. The few hours you will spend completing each exam says remarkably little about who you are as a student—let alone a person. You are continuously learning new skills, knowledge, and perspectives. I know how hard this may be, but it can be healthy to base your self-esteem on more than academic achievement. You are more than your grades, especially at McGill.

2 – Clarity matters more than you may think.

One of the most common things I hear from students One of the most common things I hear from students who perform poorly on their law school exams is the following: “My content was perfect, but the Prof did not like the way I presented it. How unfair!” I understand the frustration, having lived through it myself.

However, my perspective changed when I crossed over to the other side. Working as a group assistant

this year, I was tasked with providing feedback on 40 student essays. I was surprised to find that nearly every essay nailed it content-wise. Students engaged with the material and showcased an accurate understanding of it. That said, many of these essays were unstructured and ambiguously phrased at times. What separates “good” from “great” was how easily I could grasp and follow the student’s point, and this usually entailed structured arguments and careful phrasing.

When you write a law school exam, put yourself in your professor’s shoes. On top of teaching classes and grading, they have families, ongoing research initiatives, and various other personal and professional commitments to which they need to attend. Being the son of a McGill professor myself, I can assure you that grading is not a highlight of the job. However, much care is put into providing feedback, but they probably want to get things over with as quickly as possible. This is why clarity matters. The less work it takes for professors to grasp your argument, the more time they have for their other commitments.

Consciously or subconsciously, professors are grateful of the time and mental effort you save them — this gratitude could reflect on your grade.

3 – You do not have to work a law-related job during your 1L summer.

I will start by saying that working a law-related job during your 1L summer can be incredibly rewarding.

If you find an interesting job that aligns with your career goals, I will certainly not discourage you from taking it. That is the path I chose. In summer 2021, I found myself at the Tribunal administratif du logement providing doctrinal, legislative, and jurisprudential research for administrative judges. I mainly wrote and communicated summaries for judgements on appeal from the Tribunal, but I occasionally assisted judges during trial. I developed strong research skills, learned to communicate in a professional environment, and got to see the most active Tribunal in the province everyday.

All this being said, my friends who did not work law jobs last summer are thriving too. Some travelled, others worked at camps, and several worked service-related jobs in the city. To this day, I have not seen any potential employer use their lack of strictly 7

Vol 44 ● No 2 law-related experience against them. If anything, employers appreciate a diversity of experience. What matters is what you personally retain from whatever you do, and less what it looks like on paper. People can tell the difference.

4 – Taking JICP during your 1L summer is a great idea.

JICP is a 4-credit mandatory course that you can take in summer 2022, fall 2022, and winter 2023.

I strongly advise you to take it in summer. This is something I did not do, and I bitterly regret it.

By this I do not mean to disparage my fall 2021 JICP course taught by Professor Saumier, which was clear, useful, and enjoyable. It is more a question of time management. Simply put, taking JICP in the summer opens your schedule tremendously.

This is something you should want in 2L, for the beauty of being an upper-year student resides in your freedom to tailor your schedule to your academic interests. There are several classes on which I missed out due to my fall JICP class.

This would have been even more true in winter, where the combination of property, legal ethics, and JICP would have accounted for 10 credits worth of mandatory courses. If it is not too late, do not make the same mistake.

5 – Prepare the specifics.

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There are specific things that you will almost certainly need to do in each final exam, and you can prepare for them. Here are some examples that you may find helpful: • When examining criminal liability in your criminal justice final, you will probably need to provide definitions for an actus reus, different mens rea standards, and causality.

• It is also likely that you will need to define certain defenses, elements of criminal procedure, and principles of punishment. Prepare these definitions in advance.

In your contracts final, you will almost certainly need to spot issues related to offer, acceptance, consideration, breach, remedy, and various forms of vitiated consent. Identify the rules for these issues in advance.

These are far from exhaustive, and I suggest speaking to upper-year students for more such examples.

Having presented these five pieces of advice, I bid you good luck and congratulate you on reaching the end of a remarkably difficult year. You are doing better than you think, I promise.

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BEING A LAW STUDENT DURING HISTORICAL WORLD EVENTS Madalina Cretu | 1L

The last two years have been filled with major world events that are affecting our daily lives and catalyzing change in society on a macro level. I personally feel tired experiencing so many historical events in such short period, however I am trying to learn how to practice a positive mindset during these times.

Prior to law school, I worked as a nurse and provided care to patients and their families during the COVID pandemic.

When our society was scared about COVID related deaths, I worked at a birthing unit to welcome babies into the world.

As I was helping mothers meet their babies for the first time, the emotions experienced in the delivery room taught me that despite scary world events, life keeps going and we should learn to adapt to change. Moreover, the World Happiness Report 2022 shows a bright light in dark times. According to the team of international researchers, including McGill University Professor Christopher BarringtonLeigh, the pandemic brought not only pain and suffering but also an increase in social support and benevolence.

Now in my first year of law school, I worry about my family that is living close to the war in Ukraine. I personally thought that there is no crazier time to be a modern law student than now. As I was feeling overwhelmed, I remember sitting in Professor Van Praagh’s torts class and listening to her stories on how throughout her career she has always been challenged to teach during historical events, including 911, pandemic, and war. I took the time to do some reflections after her class, and I am learning that it is not healthy to live my present life waiting for the future to bring better days, instead it is more powerful for me to be present in the daily life and navigate through the joys and stressors. I cannot change the major world events that affect me but, but I can control how I react to them and the people around me. I hope that the healthy coping skills we develop during these times can help bring joyful days to our community in the future.

As McGill law students approach the end of academic year, they are trying to find the energy and motivation to face exam season. Learning about the news can be tiring and depressing for some people, but we should strive to have a healthy balance between news awareness and our mental health. As future jurists, law students are in a unique position where they should be up to date with the news, manage their course work and take care of their personal wellbeing. That is easier said than done!

However, I hope that after reading my article, you can take some time to reflect on the challenges and the joys you have been experiencing this academic year and how that shaped you into the person you are today.

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A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE THROUGH THE QUID NOVI ARCHIVES The colloquial conversational community Anna McAllister| 1L

By the standard of Quid Novi editions of the 1980s, 2021’s editions would be considered tame, vanilla, and perhaps even stuffy. As a Quid columnist myself, I love the chance to read the pointed, intellectual, and current reflections that our student body shares through weekly Quid articles. While this type of discourse was certainly present in Quid articles of the past, peppered in between were bits and pieces of colloquial conversation largely missing from today’s Quid.

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In the absence of social media, the Quid served a purpose similar to today’s McGill Law General Facebook group and class group chats. Shockingly candid at times, students openly shared their thoughts and musings about the life of a law student at the faculty. A prime example can be found in the November 28, 1989, edition, intended to tide readers over until the Quid would resume publishing following the holiday break. In the article, “Exams and Hedonism: A match made in heaven,” a question for every day of exam season was included to “fine-tune your brain cells” for upcoming exams.

These questions embodied frank and humoristic observations about lacking elements at the faculty such as “Do you feel safe riding in either of the faculty elevators? If so, why?” and “How would you rate the ventilation in the photocopy room? Are those fumes toxic? Noxious? Probably criminal?”.

While humoristic and sometimes critical observations about life at the faculty are certainly present in McGill Law’s online Facebook community, moving these sorts of remarks from the Quid to an online platform has resulted in this environment being exclusively for students. This creates a sort of safe space for comments without having to worry as much about offending professors or faculty administration. In past Quid editions however, it seemed like openly

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including professors in this colloquial dialogue was part of the fun. A regular column entitled “Quotes of the Week” was comprised of hilarious, out-of-context and zany remarks made by professors in classes. Another article entitled “The Good Student” from 1989 was dedicated to a Professor Sklar and provided advice such as “write ‘wrong!’ in the margins a lot, everywhere.” Most surprisingly however, was an article written by “Certain Female Members of the Quid Novi team who choose to remain anonymous” from 1984 entitled “Take it Off Bill!” This article openly advocated for one professor to shave his beard in order to be more likely to “join the ranks” of other Australian “heart throb[s]” and “super stars.” While this level of collegiality with professors may be taking it too far by 2021 standards, a playful and public dialogue with professors made up a large part of the sense of community Quid Novi sought to foster.

Even regular, informative articles such as “From the Gelber,” which exists to this day to communicate vital information about library services, had a certain coy flare. One article from 1989 entitled “Sex Hints,” grabbed readers attention only to go on to explain step by step how to log into the new computer system installed in the library. Readers would arrive at the end of the article only to be met with a cheeky message: “(Tricked You!) P.S. Kiss with your eyes closed.”

While the Facebook groups of today certainly serve a similar purpose in fostering colloquial conversation about life at the faculty, it is almost awe inspiring how willing students of the past were to formally publish and distribute casual discourse.

I can only wonder what students of the future will think of our current Facebook musings, while also hesitantly pondering what kind of privacy parameters exist for ensuring only those who are a part of the faculty may join the McGill Law General group.

MA PRÉDICTION POUR LES TROPHÉES DE LA LNH POUR LA SAISON 2021-2022 Darien Bahry| 3L

Quoique la saison régulière de la Ligue nationale de hockey (LNH) n’est pas encore terminée, elle tire à sa fin et donc je me chargerai, une fois de plus comme pendant la saison covid de 2019-2020, du devoir de décerner les trophées que la LNH décerne à ces joueurs après la saison. Évidemment, étant donné que la saison ne finira pas avant que je ne finisse d’écrire cet article, je ne tiendrai compte que des matchs joués et des statistiques récoltées par les joueurs avant le 31 mars 2022. Dans un deuxième temps, je n’aborderai que les trophées suivants : le trophée Hart (joueur le plus utile à son équipe, comme voté par « the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association »), le Vézina (meilleur gardien), le Norris (meilleur défenseur), le Calder (joueur recru de l’année), le Jack Adams (meilleur entraîneur de l’année), et enfin le trophée Ted Lindsay (joueur par excellence selon les membres de l’Association des joueurs de la LNH).

Ceci étant dit, il faut souligner que les trophées, dont je n’ai pas parlé, sont également importants. Par exemple, le Selke (meilleur attaquant défensif) est un exploit impressionnant. Pourtant, j’ai pris la décision de choisir les six trophées qui sont, plus ou moins, ceux qui sont les plus connus et qui sont également débattables, c’est-àdire qu’ils ne sont pas automatiquement décernés uniquement en raison d’un exploit statistique, comme l’Art Ross par exemple. D’ailleurs, je ne traiterai pas le trophée Masterton (décerné au joueur qui a exhibé le plus de persévérance), même s’il s’agit d’un trophée important, ainsi que les autres trophées reliés au leadership et à l’implication dans la communauté. Alors, sans plus tarder, commençons avec le trophée Hart.

Le trophée Hart : joueur le plus utile à son équipe Les candidates :Auston Matthews, Leafs de

Toronto; Connor McDavid, Oilers d’Edmonton; Igor Shesterkin, Rangers de New York; Jonathan Huberdeau, Panthers de la Floride Le gagnant : Igor Shesterkin – Shesterkin a été le rempart d’une équipe à New York qui a dépassé toutes les atteintes cette année.

Les Rangers de New York ont présentement une fiche de 43 victoires et 19 défaites grâce à, en grande partie, Shesterkin. Pour sa part, le gardien russe a rapporté 32 victoires à l’équipe et seulement 9 défaites jusqu’à présent. Il n’accorde que 2.11 buts par match en moyen (deuxième dans la LNH derrière Frederik Anderson) et possède un taux de pourcentage d’arrêts de 0.936% (meilleur dans la LNH), ce qui est très impressionnant. D’ailleurs Shersterkin, et les Rangers de New York, gagnent plus que 70% des matchs dans lequel il joue, montrant ainsi son immense impact à son équipe. Cependant, c’est probablement au niveau des statistiques avancées que l’on peut s’apercevoir l’impact de Shesterkin sur son équipe. En ce qui a trait à la statistique des buts arrêtés par rapport aux prévisions (Goals saved above expected), cette statistique détermine le nombre de buts qu’un gardien a sauvés par rapport à ce qu’il aurait dû accorder compte tenu de la qualité des tiers. Ici, le Russe a le plus de buts arrêtés par rapport aux prévisions dans la LNH avec 32.4, ce qui veut dire qu’il arrête une grande quantité de tirs qui étaient censés entrer dans son filet, ainsi rapportant plus de victoires à son équipe que les Rangers auraient dû avoir.

Bref, Shesterkin a été, en grande partie, la raison pour laquelle les Rangers de New York sont une des meilleures équipes de la ligue, contre les atteintes d’une grande partie du monde de hockey. Finalement, il faudrait signaler que le joueur le plus utile à son équipe n’est pas forcément le meilleur joueur – le meilleur joueur de la LNH étant Connor McDavid – mais plutôt le joueur qui a le plus d’impact sur son équipe pendant la saison.

Le trophée Vezina : meilleur gardien Les candidates : Jacob Markstrom, Flames de Calgary;IgorShesterkin,RangersdeNewYork; Frederik Anderson, Hurricanes de la Caroline; Andrei Vasilevskiy, Lightning de Tampa Bay. Le gagnant : Igor Shesterkin – Encore, Shesterkin est un choix assez facile ici.

Je n’ai pas l’intention de me tarder sur le joueur russe pour expliquer, à nouveau, pourquoi il est le meilleur gardien de la ligue cette année. Il a de super statistiques et chaque fois que les Rangers de New York débarquent sur la glace, avec lui dans le filet, l’équipe a la possibilité de gagner, voir voler, un match de l’autre équipe. Ceci étant dit, je tiens à surligner les saisons de Markstrom et Anderson en particulier, puisque les deux ont également eu des saisons incroyables.

Malgré cela, Shesterkin mérite le Vezina pour les raisons que j’ai invoquées ci-dessus.

Le trophée Norris : meilleur défenseur Les candidates : Roman Josi, Predators de Nashville; Cale Makar,Avalanche du Colorado; Victor Hedman, Lightning de Tampa Bay; Adam Fox, Rangers de New York Le gagnant : Cale Makar – Dans mon article qui décernait les trophées de la LNH pour la saison de 2019-2020, j’ai dit, par rapport à Cale Makar, qu’on ne devrait pas être étonnés si Makar devenait le meilleur défenseur de la LNH dans un avenir très proche. 2 ans plus tard, je pense que l’histoire m’a donné raison.

Makar est une force sur la glace, possède un puissant coup de patin, et domine le jeu à la fois offensivement et défensivement.

En effet, il a déjà marqué 24 buts, ce qui est incroyable pour un défenseur dans la LNH de nos jours (il pourrait être le premier défenseur depuis Mike Green de marquer 30 buts dans une saison), et a amassé 50 passes pour 74 points en 63 matchs. Ces statistiques sont 11

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Le pourcentage de Corsi, le pourcentage de buts attendus et le pourcentage de chances de danger élevé sont tous en faveur de Makar, et de loin, et sont plus/moins, quoiqu’une statistique d’équipe, est aussi meilleure que celle de Josi. Si le trophée était pour le meilleur défenseur offensif, je le donnerais à Josi, mais il s’agit bel et bien d’un trophée destiné au meilleur défenseur. Et sur ce point, Makar a montré, à ce jour, une performance plus complète que Josi. Makar est capable de prendre le contrôle d’un match d’un point de vue offensif, tout en annulant l’attaque de l’autre équipe.

Il transitionne sans effort la rondelle de sa zone défensive vers la zone offensive, et il est en grande partie une des raisons pour laquelle l’Avalanche de Colorado est une des meilleures équipes de la LNH.

une erreur, s’il se fait battre physiquement, s’il commet un revirement, il y a une grande possibilité qu’il n’y ait personne pour lui sauver la peau. Par conséquent, compte tenu de la difficulté de la position et l’impact d’ailleurs de la position sur le jeu, la dominance de Seider est encore plus frappante. Il a réussi à impressionner la communauté de la LNH non seulement grâce à ses qualités de patineur et à sa taille, mais aussi parce qu’il s’est avéré être un excellent passeur de la rondelle en transition et en zone offensive. De plus, en tant que défenseur, il a marqué cinq buts et 37 passes pour 42 points en 65 matchs. Vingt-trois de ces points ont été obtenus à l’égalité, dix-sept en avantage numérique et deux passes décisives en infériorité numérique.

Il est en tête de toutes les recrues pour les passes aussi. En ce qui concerne son temps de glace, il joue en moyen 23:08 minutes par match, ce qui est, une fois de plus, assez étonnant pour un jeune défenseur de 20 ans. De ce fait, Seider a déjà un immense impact sur le jeu, que ce soit offensivement ou défensivement.

Le trophée Calder : meilleur joueur recru

Le trophée Jack Adams : meilleur entraîneur de l’année

Les candidates : Moritz Seider, Red Wings de Détroit; Lucas Raymond, Red Wings de Détroit; Trevor Zegras, Ducks d’Anaheim; Michael Bunting, Leafs de Toronto

Les candidates : Daryl Sutter, Flames de Calgary; Rod Brind’Amour, Hurricanes de la Caroline; Andrew Brunette, Panthers de la Floride; Gerard Gallant, Rangers de NewYork

Le gagnant : Moritz Seider – Ce choix sera potentiellement le choix le plus controversé dans le sens où Seider n’est pas un nom aussi bien connu que celui de Zegras par exemple. Effectivement, Zegras est allé au match des étoiles, a montré un talent époustouflant et a contribué à un des meilleurs buts que la LNH a vus pendant son histoire prestigieuse, et je n’ai même pas fait référence à son but dans le match des étoiles. Pourtant, le meilleur joueur recru n’est pas toujours celui qui a le plus de hype derrière lui ou qui marque les buts spectaculaires : le trophée est accordé au meilleur joueur, et Seider est le meilleur recru dans les deux sens de la patinoire. En premier lieu, il est un défenseur, une des positions les plus difficiles pour un jeune joueur en raison de son caractère physique et la complexité de la position. Un attaquant et ses erreurs défensifs peuvent être cachés, alors que ce n’est pas le cas pour un défenseur. S’il fait

Le gagnant : Daryl Sutter – Compte tenu de ce que Darryl Sutter a fait pour transformer radicalement les Flames de Calgary en candidats à la Coupe Stanley, il n’y a qu’un seul choix pour le prix Jack Adams cette saison.

Depuis qu’il s’est joint à l’équipe, il a mis en œuvre une structure et une culture de responsabilité, créant ainsi une constance qui a amené l’équipe au sommet de la division pacifique.

Les Flames sont passés d’une équipe très irrégulière qui a raté les playoffs à une équipe qui a pris la tête de la division pacifique en tant qu’équipe la plus chaude de la NHL. En effet, avant que les Flames n’aient embauché Sutter en mars 2021, les Flames étaient 11-122, ce qui rend plus impressionnante la performance de l’équipe. Une bonne marque de l’impact d’un entraîneur est, naturellement, la performance de ses joueurs et Sutter est parvenu à tirer le plus de ses joueurs. Son gardien de but, Markstrom, a une saison incroyable, l’attaquant Johnny Gaudreau

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est en route de compter 100 points pour la première fois de sa carrière, et Elias Lindholm et Andrew Mangiapane ont également de très bonnes saisons. Sutter a, effectivement, effectué un changement dans la culture de l’équipe, et les flames sont maintenant une équipe qui travaille fort, joue de façon structurée et donne 100 pour cent à chaque match.

Ce changement de fortune est dû à Sutter et l’équipe qu’il a construit pendant son temps à Calgary depuis mars 2021.

Le trophée Ted Lindsay : Joueur par excellence selon ses pairs Les candidates : Connor McDavid, Oilers d’Edmonton; Cale Makar, Avalanche de Colorado; Leon Draisaitl, Oilers d’Edmonton; Auston Matthews, Leafs de Toronto Le gagnant : Connor McDavid – Le trophée Ted Lindsay est communément perçu comme étant destiné au meilleur joueur de la ligue aux yeux des autres joueurs, et non pas le joueur qui a le plus d’impact sur son équipe et le succès de son équipe : une distinction, parfois mince, mais présente.

Donc, avec cela en tête, McDavid est de loin le meilleur joueur de la ligue et mérite ainsi le trophée Ted Lindsay. Le Canadien de 25 ans est sans question le meilleur patineur au monde, la meilleure menace offensive, et a ramassé déjà 100 points. Au début de l’année, McDavid a marqué le but de la saison contre les Rangers de New York et n’a pas arrêté de torturer la compétition depuis. À mes yeux, McDavid est comme le Gretzky de notre génération, ou le Michael Jordan des années 90, on peut essayer de trouver un autre joueur pour rendre l’affaire plus intéressant, puisqu’il n’est pas le fun de donner ce trophée chaque année à McDavid. Cependant, faire ainsi serait une injustice au meilleur joueur de la ligue. Effectivement, McDavid est époustouflant chaque fois qu’il est sur la glace et personne ne peut rivaliser sa prouesse offensive, sans même porter attention à son amélioration défensive. McDavid est vraiment un spécimen tout à fait distinct dans la ligue qui est capable de jouer un style de jeu à la fois rude et physique d’une part et fluide et gracieux d’autre part. Il est un joueur complet, ayant des habilités qui éblouissent des partisans de chaque équipe, et on a le privilège de regarder possiblement le meilleur joueur qui ait enfilé des patins de hockey.

STOP INTERRUPTING OTHERS AND LISTEN How you say something is as important as what you say Vidish Parikh | 2L

Have you ever been in a stimulating conversation?

Of course, I’m talking about the kind of conversation that is super memorable, whether for good or not so good reasons.

The chances are high that you don’t remember precisely what you or someone else said. Still, you likely do remember how they made you feel while you were engaging in that conversation. I believe there is a reason for that: as social creatures, we thrive off non-verbal signals.

Whether you are talking to a friend, co-worker, or stranger, how you say something matters as much as what you say. In a world that is so go-go-go, it can be tempting to interrupt others to get what you want to say out there — interrupting can become a force of habit. It can even be well-meaning. But when you interrupt, you risk sending a dangerous message. You signal that you are not listening — that what you are saying is maybe more important than what they are saying.

So, take an extra few seconds after someone says something. Let the silence fall upon your conversation, but do not interrupt them. I find that if you take those extra few seconds to think about what you want to say in response, you might even have something more tangible to say. Listen not to respond, but to process, learn, and bond: it will make your conversations more memorable and fruitful. It may even ensure that you are heard more clearly. w

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