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Isthatlegal.ca Mission Statement

"To create and maintain online Ontario and Canadian-based legal resources,
and - in the process, to save the world." ;-)



Summer's Over!

I'm writing this on Labour Day weekend, the traditional end of summer. It's a beautiful warm, sunny day - and bicyclists, kids, birds and dogs are everywhere.

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The brief history of the Isthatlegal website is that I started writing legal 'Guides' (really, online textbooks) 30 years ago in the areas of my initial interests - which were social assistance, tenancy, small claims court and employment law. The Guides eventually expanded to about 15 different topics, most of which are still being maintained (they are located alphabetically in the left 'Topics' sidebar).

In about 2007 I then used these Guides as the basis of establishing one of the first (the first?) entirely online legal practices, which I then took 'on the road' internationally, fulfilling a lifelong dream to see the world.

Then in about 2015 (expanded in 2020) while living in Greece I started reviewing cases from the four Canadian and Ontario appeal courts [Supreme Court of Canada, Federal Court of Appeal, Ontario Court of Appeal, Ontario Divisional Court] for interesting and useful 'dicta' from our hard-working and conscientious judges. Over time, the process of organizing these case dicta into topical categories has resulted in rich new resources - which is what you will find (growing daily) in the 200+ sidebar topics.

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Now in the late summer of 2024 (back in Canada) I've added a new project: 'Something Big' - which is a largely-but-not-always-legal 'blue sky' project, comprising short essays in socio-political ideas. It draws on my legal experience and knowledge but is also quite 'deeply' blue sky, delving freely and radically into social and legal reform - but not necessarily emanating from existing conventional political theory. It flatters itself in the reductionist suspicion that fixing our social problems may not be as hard as we all think. My (I think well-grounded) suspicions are that we are all so tied up in the ideological and pragmatic investments that we have made in our early lives that we are functionally blind to simple, alternative solutions.

Another way of putting this is that if we can do all the remarkable technical things that we have done, that peacefully and fairly running an advanced human culture can't be all that hard - it's just another problem ....

Simon Shields, Lawyer
simonshields@isthatlegal.ca
01 September 2024


ps. also, I thought I'd better get around to doing this before Elon Musk does, he's really starting to piss me off ;-)

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