Why this exists

Order in the North started from a simple frustration: the law that shapes daily life in Canada is almost never explained in plain language. It's written for lawyers, by lawyers, and everyone else is left guessing.

I've spent the last few years inside the machinery that makes a lot of that law — drafting policy briefs for Ontario's Minister of Health, running jurisdictional scans, sitting in rooms where legislation actually gets shaped. I've also spent years leading people, managing a 700-member student organization, and doing the unglamorous, door-to-door work of political campaigns.

None of that made me a lawyer. But it gave me a front-row seat to how law and government actually work — and a growing conviction that more people deserve to understand it too.

Here's what you'll find:

Case breakdowns — landmark Canadian and international decisions, explained without the jargon.

Everyday law — the legal questions people actually run into: tenant rights, employment law, what happens after a traffic stop.

The law school journey — a real, ongoing account of applying to Canadian law school, written as it happens, not after the fact.

I'm not a lawyer, and nothing here is legal advice. I'm someone who reads the cases, asks better questions than I used to, and writes it all up the way I wish someone had explained it to me.