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SJD candidate Haim Abraham was recently awarded a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS), valued at $50,000 per year for three years during doctoral studies. The Vanier CGS was established to help attract outstanding doctoral students to Canadian institutions, and is based on academic excellence, research potential and leadership.  

In an analysis in Policy Options magazine, Prof. Kent Roach and University of Ottawa professor Craig Forcese conduct a detailed assessment of Bill C-59, An Act respecting national security matters, recently introduced by the federal government to reform Canada’s national security law ("A report card on the national security bill," June 22, 2017).

Prof. Brenda Cossman and SJD student, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Scholar and Vanier Canada Scholar Ido Katri, have written a commentary in the Globe and Mail hailing the passage of Bill C-16, which adds protection of gender identity and expression to the Canadian Human Rights Code and the Criminal Code, but noting the amount of work still to do ("Today, trans Canadians celebrate Bill C-16. Tomorrow, the work begins for us all," June 15, 2017).

In a commentary in the Globe and Mail, Prof. Anita Anand argues that current proposal for reform of Canada’s securities regulatory structure, referred to as the “Cooperative Capital Markets Regulator,” is not in investors’ interests ("Canada's new securities regulatory structure is a disservice to investor," May 31, 2017).