BarTalk April 2001
Volume 13, Number 2

Robert Mackay Receives Caring Canadian Award

CBA member Robert Barnett Mackay was awarded a Governor General Caring Canadian Award this year. Mr. Mackay practises marketing, advertising, competition and trademark law with Gowlings in Vancouver. The Caring Canadian award recognizes his work with seniors and young people – Mr. Mackay served as Chair of the Seniors’ Lottery of BC and the Seniors’ Funding Society of BC and was recently named National President of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award for young Canadians.

This year Governor General Adrienne Clarkson will honor the volunteer commitments of 59 Canadians who have provided extraordinary help or care to individuals, families or groups, or supported community service of humanitarian causes.

The National SOGIC Awards

The deadline for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Conference (SOGIC) nominations is May 31, 2001. More information on the SOCIC awards is available at www.cba.org.

SOGIC Ally
This award is open to lawyers, professors, law students or retired judges who are not members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) communities, who have advanced the cause of equality of the LGBT communities through either a single important action or series of actions or through a career contribution.

SOGIC Hero
This award is open to lawyers, professors, law students or judges who are members of the LGBT communities, who have advanced the cause of equality of the LGBT communities through either a single important action or series of actions or through a career contribution and/or those, who through excellence in their profession or community, or both, have served as a role model for other members of the LGBT communities.

These articles were published in the April 2001 issue of BarTalk and are subject to the copyright by the British Columbia Branch of the Canadian Bar Association, 2005, all rights reserved.