Recipient of the Bora Laskin Award for outstanding contributions to Canadian labour law
Articled to Ian Scott at the firm then known as Cameron, Brewin and Scott in Toronto
Associate with the law firm of Jaffary & Turner, Toronto
Maintained private office for the practice of law devoted primarily to employment, civil, criminal and family litigation
Member of the Faculty of Osgoode Hall Law School with responsibility as:
Counsel for the Community and Legal Aid Services Program
Lecturer in Civil Procedure and Trial Advocacy
Arbitrator and Mediator (see details below)
Chair, Education and Colleges Relations Commissions
Adjunct Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
Director, Ontario Ministry of Labour Arbitrator Development Program
Full-time Arbitrator and Mediator in the public and private sectors, including several appointments to permanent panels, 1984 to date
Roster Mediator, Ontario Mandatory Mediation Program, 1999 to October 2002
Referee under the Employment Standards Act, 1984 -1990
Sitting on a Board of Inquiry hearing cases under the Ontario Human Rights Code
Factfinder, Mediator and Arbitrator for the Education and Colleges Relations Commissions, 1979 - 1988
Adjunct Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, teaching the Labour Arbitration Seminar, coaching moots and supervising graduate theses, 1999 to 2006
Past Director, Ontario Ministry of Labour Arbitrator Development Program
Chair, Education Relations Commission of Ontario, 1991-1997
Chair, Colleges Relations Commission of Ontario, 1991-1997
Vice-Chair (Part-Time), Ontario Labour Relations Board, 1984 -1997
Vice-Chair, Public Service Grievance Settlement Board, 1984 to date
Vice-Chair (Part-Time), Ontario Labour Relations Board, 1984 -1997
Member of the Task Force recommending revisions to Part One of the Canada Labour Code, appointed by the Federal Minster of Labour, 1995 -1996
Chair, Ontario Motor Vehicle Arbitration Plan, 1990 - 1994
Labour Arbitration Yearbook: Lancaster House, Classification Disputes at Arbitration
Seeking a Balance: Review of Part One of the Canada Labour Code, Co-Authored with Andrew Sims and Rodrique Blouin
Book Review of Legalising Gender and Equality: Courts, Markets
Unequal Pay for Women in America, Published in Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, 2000, Vol. 55, No 2
"Free Speech and Privacy in the Internet Age: The Canadian Perspective", Published in Arbitration 2001 Arbitrating in an Evolving Legal Environment, 54th Annual Meeting, National Academy of Arbitrators, Edited by J. Grenig and S. Briggs, The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., Washington, D.C.
Contributor to State of the Art and Practice in Dispute Resolution: Symposium in Honour of Bryan M. Downie; Mary Lou Coates, Editor. Queen's Industrial Relations Centre, 2002
"Free Speech and Privacy in the Internet Age: The Canadian Perspective", Comparative Labour Law & Policy Journal,Volume 24, Number 1, Fall 2002
"Arbitration in Opera, Literature and Art" in Arbitration 2008: U.S. and Canadian Arbitration: Same Probems, Different Approaches, Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Arbitrators
"Human Rights and Accommodation," in Palmer and Snyder; Collective Agreement Arbitration in Canada, 4th Edition, Butterworths, 2010
"Human Rights and Accommodation," in Palmer and Snyder; Collective Agreement Arbitration in Canada, 5th Edition, Butterworths, 2013
The "Supreme Court of Canada's Labour Law Trilogy": Its Legacy and Implications on the Future. Volume 45, No 2 Ottawa Law Review, page 265
Vice President and Member of the Board of Governors
Chair, Block Report Implementation Committee
Program Committee - Spring 2019 Philadelphia Conference
Past Chair and Member of the Committee on Professional Responsibility and Grievances
Chair, 2015 - 2016 Nominating Committee
Co-chair for the 2015 and 2016 Fall Education Conferences; Denver and New Orleans
Past Member of the Research and Education Fund
Program Committee for the 2008 Ottawa-Gatineau Conference
President, 2009 - 2010
Task Force on Amendments to the Code of Ethics, 2015
Board of Directors, 1995 - 1998
President 1993 - 1994
Vice President 1992 - 1993
Several appearances giving speeches and training sessions about arbitration, mediation, labour relations and interest-based bargaining, including:
"Winning Cases at Grievance Arbitration", presented for Lancaster House
Ontario School Board Trustees Association, "Projections of Labour Relations Issues", Canadian Bar Association, Continuing Education Series, Labour Relations Act Reforms
Ontario English Catholic School Teachers Association, "Grievance Arbitration"
Ontario Labour Relations Symposium, Panellist, "Ontario Labour Arbitration Forecast"
Law Society of Upper Canada, Continuing Education Series, "Mastering Mediation"
Infonex Seminar, Keynote Speaker, "Successfully Administering the Collective Agreement"
Institute for International Research “Discipline and Discharge, Procedures: A Practical Update Seminar, Diagnosing Potential Outcomes of your Arbitrations: The Arbitrator's Perspective"
Infonex Seminar, Chair, "Canada Labour Code Reform, A Complete Review"
University of Toronto Centre for Industrial Relations, Panellist, Labour Arbitration Conference, "Putting Your Best Face on Your Case: What Arbitrators Look for in Case Presentation"
Osgoode Hall Law School, Professional Development Programme, Coach, Advanced Mediation Workshop
Centrum Information Seminar, Chair, "Key Issues in Ontario Education Reform"
Insight Information Inc. Conference, Keynote Speaker, "Labour Reform: How to Keep the Pendulum from Swinging"
Ministry of Labour, Arbitrators Training Program, "Mediation in Arbitration"
Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark, Labour Law Moot Competition, Participating Arbitrator
Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers Conference, Guest Speaker
National Academy of Arbitrators, Speaker, "Disability Issues: The Canadian Perspective"
Lancaster House, Labour Arbitration Conference, Panellist, "Accommodation Issues"
Glass Moulders' Convention, Panellist, "What do Arbitrators Look for at Arbitration"
Coach, Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team, Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot
Queen's University Industrial Relations Centre, Presentation, "Labour Arbitration Skills"
Queen's University Industrial Relations Centre, Panellist, Brian Downie Symposium, "Mediating Justice: Practice Meets Theory"
Coach, Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team, Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot
Queen's University Industrial Relations Centre, Presentation, "Labour Arbitration Skills", April 30, 2001
Workshop Designer and Presenter for Ombudsman Ontario, "The Duty to Accommodate", October 12, 2001
Lancaster House Conference, Panel Chair, "Issues in Public Sector Bargaining", October 31, 2001
National Academy of Arbitrators, Speaker, Tampa, Florida, "Free Speech and Privacy in the Age of the Internet"
The Canadian Perspective, November 2, 2001, Co-Chair, Ontario Labour-Management Arbitrators' Association
Fall Education Conference, November 15, 2001, "Making the System Work Better"
Coach, Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team, Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot
Speaker, Police Employment in 2000 Conference, Toronto, February 25-26, 2002
Key Note Speaker, Ontario Public School Boards Association, Labour Relations Symposium, April 4, 2002
Queen's University Industrial Relations Centre, Presentation, "Labour Arbitration Skills", April 28, 2002
Panellist, Law Society Continuing Education Seminar, "New Developments in Labour Law, Mediation in Arbitration", May 27, 2002
Discussion Leader, "Recent Issues and Developments in Canadian Labour Arbitration", National Academy of Arbitrators 2002 Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pa., May 30 - June 2, 2002
Co- Chair, Ontario Labour-Management Arbitrators' Association, Continuing Education Seminar, "Assessing Credibility",November 21, 2002
Coach of the winning Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team, Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot, February 18-19, 2003
Queen's University Industrial Relations Centre, Presentation, "Labour Arbitration Skills", May 25, 2003
Plenary Panellist, Labour Arbitration and Policy Conference, University of Calgary, Industrial Relations Research Group, June 11-12, 2003
Panellist, "The Future of Administrative Justice", 2003 Conference of Boards and Agencies, November 7, 2003
Coach of the Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team, Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot, January 24, 2004
Queen's University Industrial Relations Centre, Presentation, "Labour Arbitration Skills", May 1, 2004
Panellist, Police Association of Ontario Conference, Workshop on Arbitration under the Police Services Act, August 10, 2004
Panellist, Ontario Bar Association Labour Law Section, "Zero Tolerance: the Ultimate Zero Sum Game", September 20, 2004
Panellist, "How to avoid being Judicially Reviewed", with Justice Stephen Goudge, Ontario Court of Appeal, and Professor Thomas Kuttner, Ontario Labour-Management Arbitrators' Association, November 18, 2004
Panellist, "Rulings on Difficult Issues at Arbitration", OPS Labour Relations Conference, January 20, 2005
Coach of the Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team, Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot, Placed 2nd
Coach of the Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team, Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot, January, 2006
Panellist, Ontario Bar Association, Labour Law Subsection, "Straight Talk from Arbitrators", June 12, 2006
Speaker, Insight Conference, "Accommodation Issues in Arbitration", June 15, 2006
Moderator, Panel on "Ethical Issues in Arbitration", with Justice Stephen Goudge, George Thompson and Ken Swan, at the Ontario Labour-Management Arbitrators' Association Conference, November 16, 2007
Coach of the Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team, Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot, January, 2007
Panellist, "Difficult Rulings at Arbitration", Lancaster Conference, Calgary, Alberta, June 13, 2007
Speaker, "Confessions of the Arbitrator who wrote the Parry Sound decision" or "Be careful of what you asked for", Montreal, Quebec, June 14, 2007
Director, Arbitrator Development Program, Phase 1, with the Ontario Ministry of Labour, November 28 - 30, 2007
Coach of the Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team, Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot, January 2008
Member, Program Committee - 2008 National Academy of Arbitrators Annual Meeting, Ottawa-Gaineau
Director, Arbitrator Development Program, Phases 2 & 3, with the Ontario Ministry of Labour
Presenter, Labour Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in Art, Literature and Opera, at the National Academy of Arbitrators Conference, Ottawa-Gatineau, May 2008
Chair, Panel on How to Deal with Ethical Dilemmas, at the National Academy of Arbitrators Conference, Ottawa-Gatineau, May 2008
Coach of the Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team, Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot, January 2008
2009 Speaker for the New Member Orientation, National Academy of Arbitrators Conference, Chicago, Illinois; May 20, 2009
Panellist, "The Next Generation of Arbitrators and Advocates - From Where Will They Come", National Academy of Arbitrators Conference, Chicago, May 23, 2009
Speaker, "What do Arbitrators Look for?" Canadian Labour Congress: Arbitration Skills Seminar, May 28, 2009
Presenter, "Human Rights and Accommodation," for the Office of the Ombudsman Ontario, September 24, 2009
Panellist, "The Business Side of Arbitration," National Academy of Arbitrators - Fall Education Conference, San Antonio, Texas; October 3, 2009
Panellist, "Squaring the Circle: Finding a balance between benefit coverage and cost containment", Lancaster House Conference - Bargaining in the Broader Public Sector, December 16, 2009
Coach of the Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team - Winners of the Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot, January 2010
Panellist, "Self Represented Litigants," 2010 Ontario Bar Association Institute, February 16, 2010
Organizing Committee Member, Canadian Labour Arbitrators' Educational Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, March 6-8, 2010
Co-Presenter, with William Kaplan; "The End of the One-Trick Pony: When is being an Arbitrator Not Enough?" A Workshop on Med-Arb for Nova Scotia Minister's List Arbitrators, Sponsored by the Nova Scotia Minister of Labour's Arbitration Advisory Committee, Halifax, Nova Scotia, September 20, 2010
Presenter,"The Arbitration Scene," Address to the Education, the Economy and Sustainable Bargaining Labour Relations Conference, October 1, 2010
Panellist, "Family-Related Responsibilities: Reconciling personal needs and operational demands," Lancaster House, Labour Aribtration Conference, December 9, 2010.
Coach of the Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team - Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot, Finalists, January, 2011
Guest Speaker, Interest Arbitration, "Strait Talk from an Arbitrator", Police Association of Ontario Conference, April 18, 2011
Panellist, National Academy of Arbitrators,Representation Rights and Issues in Arbitration, San Diego California, May 2011
Panellist on Interest Arbitration, Emergency Services Steering Committee of Ontario Conference, June 17, 2011
Presentation to a delegation from Viet Nam regarding Arbitration in Ontario, August 2, 2011
Panellist on Accommodation Issues, Canadian Conference of Counsel for Employers, Niagara Falls, Ontario, September 22, 2011
Panellist, Rogers School of Management - "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; The Future of Interest Arbitration," Toronto, October 7, 2011
Coach of the Osgoode Hall Law School Mooting Team, Mathews, Dinsdale and Clark Labour Arbitration Moot, January, 2012
Presentation on Interest Arbitration, Ontario Association of Fire Chiefs - "Ask the Arbitrator", Toronto, January 19, 2012
Workshop Leader on Accommodation Issues, Alberta School Board's Association, January 20, 2012
Panelist, What's Up Doc/ Medical Conundrums in Arbitration, National Academy of Arbitrators Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 8, 2012
Panelist, Interest Arbitration; Deliberations and Questions From the South African Delegation, presented to the South African Public Services Co-ordinating Bargaining Council, June 29, 2912, Toronto, Ontario
Ottawa Law Review Symposium, February 7, 2013.“The Labour Law Trilogy”; Presentation “Back to the Future: The “Trilogy” in Light of Fraser - Can or Will the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Protect Collective Bargaining?”
“The [Bare] Essential Elements of Labour Arbitration in Canada” for "A Comparative Analysis of Labour Arbitration in Western Industrialized Countries: Plus ca change, Plus c’est la meme chose.” American Bar Association: Alternate Dispute Resolution Mid-Winter Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, February 22, 2014
Presentation to the Teacher and School Board Collective Bargaining Conference: How to Improve the Arbitration Experience. September 25, 2015
Co-Chair, Fall Education Conference, National Academy of Arbitrators, Denver Colorado.
Co-Chair, Fall Education Conference, National Academy of Arbitrators, New Orleans, Mississippi
Panelist, Re-thinking Arbitration, National Academy of Arbitrators Conference, Chicago, Illinois
Director, Interest Arbitration Skills Development Program, Sponsored by the Ontario Ministry of Labour and the Ontario Labour Management Arbitrators’ Association
Faculty Bargaining Services Conference - Arbitrators’ Panel - November 2, 2018
Intake Worker, Yonge Street Mission, Food Bank, 1998 - 1999
Member, Social Planning and Allocation Committee, United Jewish Federation, 1998 - 2001Member, Social Planning and Allocation Committee, United Jewish Federation, 1998 - 2001
Volunteer, Canadian Foundation for Children, Youth and the Law, Peer Mediation Project, 1999 - 2000
Board of Directors, Chamber Concerts Canada, 1992 - 2000
Sandwich-maker, Waitress and Cleaner, "Feed the Hungry Program"
Law Society of Upper Canada, Fall 2000 - 2006
Patron, Canadian Opera Company and as much theatre as possible
Student of Ballroom and Swing Dance
Certified (but very cautious) Scuba Diving