2013 Clawbies announced ― First Reference Talks is honoured to have won the Fodden award

December 31, 2013 Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor Accessibility Standards, Announcements and Administration, Human Resources, Payroll

The 2013 Clawbie Awards have been announced. First Reference Talks is honoured and humbled to have won the Fodden Award for Best Canadian Law Blog. It is a huge compliment and we appreciate the recognition; our team of bloggers will continue to strive to provide in depth, timely, newsworthy and well written HR, payroll, employment and labour law articles in 2014.

We would like to thank the Clawbie judges (Steve Matthews, Jordan Furlong and Simon Fodden) for considering our blog worthy of an award amidst the remarkable breadth and quality of the nominated law blogs, specifically, À bon droit, by Karim Renno of Irving Mitchell Kalichman in Montreal; Entertainment And Media Law Signal, by Bob Tarantino and his colleagues at Heenan Blaikie nationwide; and The Trial Warrior, by Antonin Pribetic of Toronto.

We especially would like to thank our 2013 blog authors/occasional bloggers for their great contributions, expertise and dedication to their work. We could not have done it without them and they deserve mention here:

Adam Gorley
Alison Bird, Cox & Palmer
Amery Boyer, CHRP, MBA
Ben Mcgregor
Bimal Parmar, Celayix
Cara-Marie Taylor
Clear Path Employer Services, Anna Aceto-Guerin
Christina Catenacci B.A., LL. B., LL.M.
David Hyde, David Hyde and Associates
Doug MacLeod, MacLeod Law Firm
Earl Altman, Garfinkle Biderman LLP
Henry J. Chang, Blaney McMurtry LLP
Ian J. Cook, BC HRMA and HR Metrics
Lauren Bride
McCarthy Tétrault, Employer Advisor blogs
Marcia Scheffler, M.A., CHRP
Michele Glassford, D.R. Hancocks & Associates Inc.
Nick Anderson
Omar Zulfi, Meghan Tooley, and Robert Groce, Metric Marketing
Pam Johnson, HR professional
QuIRC, PeopleInsight
Rachel Matthews
Simon Heath, BA, MIR, LLB
Stringer LLP
Stuart Rudner, Rudner MacDonald LLP

And our Inside Internal Controls blog authors:

Alanna Twohey, Associate Bird Richard
Ana Sainz, Claret Partners Limited
Arthur Davis
Drache Aptowitzer LLP
Evelyn Harkness
Jeffrey D. Sherman, BComm, MBA, CIM, FCA
Maanit Zemel, Miller Thompson LLP
Ron Richard, Quality, Information Technology and Enterprise Risk Management specialist
Stephanie F. Smith, B.Comm., M.B.A.
Steve Goldwasser, B.Sc.

If you would like to read more about some of them, click here and here.

We would also like to thank our team at First Reference, specifically our blog administrator Samantha Howes for her creative and technical savvy and support. Nothing would have happened without this great team.

We would also like to congratulate the other Clawbie 2013 winners, among them:

Best Practitioner Blogs: David Fraser of McInnes Cooper; Employment and Human Rights Law in Canada: Lisa Stam of Baker & McKenzie; and Family LLB: Central Ontario divorce lawyer Russell Alexander
Legal Culture Award: Youth And Work, written by Andrew Langille
Non-Legal Audience Blog: Susan On The Soapbox, written by Calgary lawyer Susan Wright
Legal News Award: National Magazine
Best Practice Management Blog: Thoughtful Legal Management by David Bilinsky

Also, our congratulations to all other award recipients, runner-ups, finalists, and nominees; for more on the 2013 ClawBies, click here.

Again… much thanks and all the best for the New Year!

Yosie Saint-Cyr
First Reference Managing Editor

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Managing Editor at First Reference Inc.

Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B., is a trained lawyer called to the Quebec bar in 1988 and is still a member in good standing. She practiced business, employment and labour law until 1999. For over 18 years, Yosie has been the Managing Editor of the following publications, Human Resources Advisor, Human Resources PolicyPro, HRinfodesk and Accessibility Standards PolicyPro from First Reference. Yosie is one of Canada’s best known and most respected HR authors, with an extensive background in employment and labour across the country. Read more