Vancestock XII is coming up fast (September 29, 2023). Have you had a chance to make your donation to this annual charity and musical event for Trails Youth Initiatives? Please add Friday, September 29, 2023 to your calendars. Musical Acts Here's what you can expect from our...
We're excited to let you know that registration for Vancestock XII is now open. Vancestock XII is a special musical event and annual fundraiser for Trails Youth Initiatives. We ask that you take a moment to add Friday, September 29, 2023 to your calendars and save the date for...
Admit it: before the COVID-19 crisis, your personal and professional lives were probably going a mile a minute. You needed more hours in the day to accomplish everything on your to do list and to see everyone you needed to see. Suddenly, the world entered the...
Cooper Mediation hopes all of our friends, clients and colleagues are staying safe and healthy. We are all striving to find some sense of normalcy in these trying and challenging times. Cooper Mediation Inc. will continue to conduct mediations by way of videoconferencing and teleconferencing until...
If you’re reading this blog, there’s a good chance you are working from your home office. In the midst of a pandemic, most of us are observing social and physical distancing regulations in place in Ontario, throughout Canada and around the world. Since mediation is...
[ Click Here To Download In PDF Format ] Every choice has its consequences. My parents did their best to instill this idea in me at a very early age. Years of their lectures (and all the time I spent reflecting on my own choices while...
“And now for something completely different.” No, this isn’t a Monty Python sketch; it’s the moment when participants who are engaged in our adversarial legal system attempt to co-operate and work together. When you say it like that, it sounds almost absurd as one of...
Lady Justice. Since the 15th century, she has often been depicted wearing a blindfold. The idea that justice should be blind – to power, wealth, identity or other status – and objectively dished out is an aspirational idea. Unfortunately, bias and prejudice remain part of the...
Originally published as a paper, read in full [PDF]. All too frequently, I attend mediations and I am asked by one side or the other or both to “work your magic”. It is my theory that neither magic acts nor miracles occur at mediation. Magic acts...
Can one bad apple spoil the whole barrel? Not if you believe the Osmonds [please forgive the dated reference to pop music from days gone by]; if that bad apple shows up at a mediation in a sour mood and seemingly determined to derail discussions,...