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Membership in the Order of Canada was recently awarded to James Lloyd
Cassels, C.M., Q.C., and the Honourable Marion R. Buller, C.M., for their
outstanding contributions to Canadian society. Mr. Cassels was recognized
for his contributions as a university administrator and law scholar, and for
his commitment to improving access to higher education. Judge Buller was
recognized for her leadership in Indigenous rights advocacy as the first
woman of a First Nation to be appointed to the Provincial Court of British
Columbia.
Dulcie McCallum, British Columbia’s first female Ombudsperson, a member
of Canada’s delegation to the UN to negotiate the Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Nova Scotia’s first female Information
and Privacy Commissioner, recently graduated from University of
King’s College (Dalhousie) with a master of fine arts degree in creative nonfiction
(May 2022). Her upcoming book, The Audacity of Inclusion, is about
her life advocating for people with intellectual disabilities. This work began
while articling for the late Hon. (Justice) David Vickers, who was known
for his advocacy in this sector.
US Code § 5305a provides: “A person shall not sell, import, or export, or
attempt to sell, import, or export, any product, item, or substance intended
for human consumption or application containing, or labeled or advertised
as containing, any substance derived from any species of rhinoceros or
tiger.”
The Church Times reported in 2018 that “when President Trump visited
Pope Francis at the Vatican last year, his gift to the Pope was a large, goldembossed
boxed set of the writings of Martin Luther King”; however, “the
Pope could be considered fortunate. One of his predecessors, Leo X, was
famously given a rhinoceros which sadly drowned en route to the Vatican
by King Manuel I of Portugal, in 1515.”
Ryan H. Clements was appointed as a part-time member for a three-year
term of the Mental Health Review Board.
The late Shona, an African black rhinoceros, was the mascot for QLD Law
Group in Australia. The firm’s website noted that “Shona’s fearless ‘head’
approach was the inspiration to our team at QLD Law Group” and she
“embodied the spirit of the firm with her direct, ‘no nonsense’, to the point
style.”