Women in law: achieving work-life balance
By: Inna Maister Nowadays it is difficult for women to be an excellent worker and mother at the same time. Especially it relates to women, who work in sphere of…
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All Work and No Play: How can we find a balance?
By Lisa-Marie Hill Are you the 1 and 4 Canadian workers that admits to being highly stressed in your day to day life? Do you find it hard to balance…
Life of a lawyer in a tug of war between job and family
Life of a lawyer in a tug of war between job and family – By Deepika Choudhary Being a lawyer and a Parent at a same time is a difficult…
Work and Family – Finding the right balance….for Lawyers
By: Tamir Salomon Finding the right balance between work and family is a tough hill to climb, but it is very much attainable. With the right amount of preparation and…
Life Work Balance: Attainable, “Yes” or “No”
By A. Small There seems to be a lot of controversy whether a life work balance can exist, as I have found out by reading various articles posted on the…
Summer solstice, 2014: seconds before sunset
The sun sets over Big Lake, near St. Albert, Alberta, seconds before 10:07 p.m. The view from the birdwatching platform.
Work life balance in legal profession and changing times
By Harkirat Singh Kang Today in the fast paced world it’s difficult to maintain a proper work balance. At one hand one has his own personal life encompassing family life…
Legal professionals strive for work life balance
by Sajal Chowdhury The legal professionals usually work long hours and its bit harder for them to manage work-life balance that they inherited from their colleagues, senior lawyers and culture…
Solar Tour 2014
Cowessess wind turbine. 800kW at 32mi/h Has Li-ion batteries. Solar farm and home system of 10kW Inverter anti-islanding. Prevents electrifying the grid while grid is down. Isolation ring for the…
School is Out, Do the Teachers Get Ready?
B.C. teachers’ strike: government agrees to Vince Ready as mediator Teachers have been calling for a mediated solution to their strike since Thursday CBC News Posted: Jun 20, 2014 2:58…
Won’t Take a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Smoke Blows…
Tories and Liberals gang up on NDP over mailings—why now? What’s to be gained by a normally secretive all-party club of MPs attacking some of its members? By Leslie MacKinnon,…
Why Mainstream Media Is Failing Canadians
Today’s corporate media can’t be trusted to tell us the truth about anything. We need alternatives. Now.
Work is Important but Not on Account of life
By: Sharifullah Mahboob The founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah said in an address to his nation “work, work and work until your hear ceases to work”. Work has an…
Perfectionist, Workaholic and Control Freak…uh I mean Work Life Balance: By Michael Yen
Entering into the legal profession from an entirely different profession has been great for me in terms of perspective. This is especially relevant considering the topic of “work life balance”.…
New Quebec government choosing fossil fuels over green jobs
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard is putting green jobs on the back burner (Photo: facebook) One thing Stephen Harper, Justin Trudeau, BC Premier Christy Clark and new Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard…
Being a Feminist means…
Here is a snippet- but of course, there is so much more: *I don’t play the game of regulating who is or who isn’t a Feminist. I don’t own the
The Struggle for Work-Life Balance
by: Adam Bustamante The concept of work-life balance is one that, while easily understandable, is difficult to master in practice. Enjoyment and Accomplishment A common element of this balance, as…
Can You Really Have it All? Balancing your legal career and your family life.
By: Rashida Forbes In the 1950’s the structure of the family is what we call today a nuclear family. This is the traditional family structure that consists of two parents,…
How do we measure job vacancies – beyond Kijiji
The Federal Government and Minister Kenney got a pretty good ribbing over their flawed methodology in measuring job vacancies – and with good reason. Anyone who has used Kijiji for…