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VOL. 80 PART 5 SEPTEMBER 2022
CONTRIBUTORS
D. Michael Bain, Q.C., is the editor of the Advocate and the proud father of one of
Perry Ehrlich’s Showstoppers! alumni. From this perspective, he has witnessed
firsthand the meaningful impact Perry’s philosophies and community activities
have had on not only his son’s life, but also the lives of many young people in
British Columbia.
Eric Kroshus is an associate at Mathews Dinsdale, where he practises employment
and labour law. Eric has a J.D. from the Allard School of Law and a B.A. in neurobiology
from Harvard University. He has played hockey for the Camrose Kodiaks,
the Penticton Vees, the Harvard Crimson and the Wheeling Nailers. His pre-game
meal is pasta and chicken followed by a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at the rink
closer to game time.
Sarah Pike is a former litigator with Davis & Company, Hunter Voith and the Aboriginal
Litigation group at the federal Department of Justice. She later worked in
the Specific Claims Legal Services Unit of the Department of Justice on historical
land claims. Since 2018, she has been a sole practitioner at Spike Law, specializing
in advising lawyers and law firms with Indigenous clients and mainly in relation to
British Columbia Aboriginal title litigation or specific claims. In her spare time,
Sarah is a legal historian, and in 2016 she received both the Law Society of British
Columbia Scholarship for Graduate Legal Studies and the UBC Allard School of Law
History Project LL.M. Scholarship.
Jeffrey J. Smith was called to the bar of British Columbia in 1997 and is a past, present
and (if we’re lucky) future contributor to the Advocate. He teaches in the Norman
Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa and
is counsel to the government-in-exile of Western Sahara (Africa’s last colony), the
Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic.
The Honourable George R. Strathy retired as Chief Justice of Ontario on August
31, 2022, a position he held since 2014, a year after his appointment to the Court of
Appeal for Ontario. Chief Justice Strathy received a B.A. from McGill in 1970 and
an M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1971. He studied law at the University of
Toronto, where he was the gold medalist in 1974. His emphasis in practice was on
maritime law and transportation. He has been described as modelling the lawyer
as a public servant by supporting causes for the less fortunate. He is married with
five daughters and ten grandchildren.