Michael Spratt's guest appearances

Michael Spratt

The Law School Show

BC Humanists Podcast

Roy Green Show

Rebuttable Presumptions

Stephanie Smith

Steven Pinker

Tim Kennedy

Nick Taylor

Nathan Fox

Carrie Jenkins

Peter Boghossian

Les Brown

Chris Graham

Katie Marshall

David Steinberg

Gail Miller

David Taylor

David Johnston

David Silverman

OwlTail

A lot of us came to law school to leave our footprint in the world. There is arguably no better person to talk to about this than the one and only Michael Spratt. Michael joins us to talk about employing your legal skills for the sake of community education, participation, and engagement so that you can make positive changes on issues that you are passionate about. Come learn about everything he’s involved with outside of his legal practice to make a difference in Canada, from testifying in the House of Commons to hosting an award-winning podcast. It’s a lot of work, but the key to succeeding in this can really be boiled down to a couple of things: steadily build up your reputation, strike a healthy work-life balance and love what you do.

A lot of us came to law school to leave our footprint in the world. There is arguably no better person to talk to about this than the one and only Michael Spratt. Michael joins us to talk about employing your legal skills for the sake of community education, participation, and engagement so that you can make positive changes on issues that you are passionate about. Come learn about everything he’s involved with outside of his legal practice to make a difference in Canada, from testifying in the House of Commons to hosting an award-winning podcast. It’s a lot of work, but the key to succeeding in this can really be boiled down to a couple of things: steadily build up your reputation, strike a healthy work-life balance and love what you do.

176. Community Education and the Art of Hot Takes (with Michael Spratt)

Michael Spratt reflects on the Justin Trudeau blackface photos, debates mandatory minimum penalties, comments on Ottawa's troubled LRT system, and talks about his award-winning podcast, The Docket.

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Wes McMillan

In this interview, recorded on Monday, June 18, 2018, Ian Bushfield executive director of the BC Humanist Association speaks with Wes McMillan who served as pro-bono counsel for the BCHA at the Supreme Court of Canada and with Michael Spratt, cohost of the Canadian legal podcast The Docket.They discuss the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent ruling that upholds the decision by law societies in Ontario and BC to reject a proposed law school at Trinity Western University.TWU is an evangelical school here in BC that requires all students to sign a community covenant that forbids sex outside a heterosexual marriage. The law societies rejected the proposed school as a means of ensuring equal access to the bar for LGBTQ people.The decision is historic for its recognition of the importance of fighting homophobia and for the limits of what can be claimed under religious freedom.Ultimately the majority found that the harm to the LGBTQ community outweighed the impact on the religious freedom claimed by TWU and its supporters. Specifically the majority wrote, “Being required by someone else’s religious beliefs to behave contrary to one’s sexual identity is degrading and disrespectful.”To read more about our work on this case and our other efforts to defend secularism and human rights, visit bchumanist.caRead more about the decision at https://www.bchumanist.ca/humanists_react_to_twu_decision

In this interview, recorded on Monday, June 18, 2018, Ian Bushfield executive director of the BC Humanist Association speaks with Wes McMillan who served as pro-bono counsel for the BCHA at the Supreme Court of Canada and with Michael Spratt, cohost of the Canadian legal podcast The Docket. They discuss the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent ruling that upholds the decision by law societies in Ontario and BC to reject a proposed law school at Trinity Western University. TWU is an evangelical school here in BC that requires all students to sign a community covenant that forbids sex outside a heterosexual marriage. The law societies rejected the proposed school as a means of ensuring equal access to the bar for LGBTQ people. The decision is historic for its recognition of the importance of fighting homophobia and for the limits of what can be claimed under religious freedom. Ultimately the majority found that the harm to the LGBTQ community outweighed the impact on the religious freedom claimed by TWU and its supporters. Specifically the majority wrote, “Being required by someone else’s religious beliefs to behave contrary to one’s sexual identity is degrading and disrespectful.” To read more about our work on this case and our other efforts to defend secularism and human rights, visit <a href="http://bchumanist.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bchumanist.ca</a> Read more about the decision at <a href="https://www.bchumanist.ca/humanists_react_to_twu_decision" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bchumanist.ca/humanists_react_to_twu_decision</a>

Lawyers Wes McMillan and Michael Spratt discuss TWU decision