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University of Toronto’s reaction to Indigenous-related assignment fuss does society no favours

Hart House at the University of Toronto. If it is not OK to use real qualities of real people from real cases, then what facts should be used in an assignment to represent the real world? Taxiarchos228/CC BY-SA 3.0

Commentary

Law school is not for the faint of heart. Students study cases of catastrophic injuries, lost fortunes, and destroyed lives. Grappling with the worst of human behaviour—murder, assault, fraud, theft, addiction, incompetence, and corruption—is run-of-the-mill.