Melissa Knox, Lawyer, Notary, Diversity & Inclusion Consultant

05/24/2024

Check out the various competitions happening today and tomorrow across the Waterloo Region!!

12/09/2023

The third and final workshop has now come and gone! Thanks .jones12 for the opportunity to spend time with memebrs of the sport community. Until next year!

12/08/2023

A busy week this week! Thanks to the for inviting me to present at the 12th annual Human Rights Summit. The law, human rights, and sport.... all my favourite things. 😍

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11/02/2022

Did you know that Diversity can be measured in several Dimensions? This graphic from our good friend Melissa Knox, Lawyer, Notary, Diversity & Inclusion Consultant with Sport Law can help us understand it better!👇

03/08/2022

Happy International Women's Day! Check out WISLaw's Meet the Arbitrator series. It was fun to interview fellow Canadian and CAS arbitrator Janie Soublière -- raising the profile of women arbitrators in sport! woot woot!

https://t.co/9bfj3rOIAv

02/22/2022

Thanks to Sport New-Nouveau Brunswick and NB Sports Hall of Fame for inviting me to speak on Saturday! The first of many conversations around Reconciliation, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion. Who's REDI?! 👍🏾🙂

02/22/2022

Thanks to and for inviting me to speak on Saturday! The first of many conversations around Reconciliation, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion. Who' REDI?! 👍🏾🙂

02/09/2022

02/01/2022

1968, following the assassination of MLK Jr and Robert Kennedy earlier that year, sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos use the Olympic medal ceremony to show solidarity with oppressed Black people worldwide, which impacted both their professional and the personal lives for years afterward.

More info at: https://www.history.com/news/black-athletes-raise-fists-1968-olympics

01/17/2022

09/26/2021

Read our continuing series of blog posts about the Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (ONCA).

This series focuses on the implementation of the Act, new amendments to the legislation, what this means for Ontario sport organizations and what they have to do, and the relevant timelines for these actions.

https://sportlaw.ca/the-ontario-not-for-profit-corporations-act-onca-to-become-law-on-october-19-2021/

07/06/2021

Randall Robinson:

Human rights advocate. Civil rights attorney. Best-selling author. Law Professor.

Who went on a 27-day hunger strike, pressuring the Clinton Administration to change its policy towards Haitian refugees? This guy.

Who does the South African government bestow the highest honour permissible to a non-citizen of South Africa, in recognition of his efforts to end apartheid? This guy!

Celebrating you and a bit of your life’s work today. Happy Birthday Uncle Randall, xoxo




Khalea Ross Robinson