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Instructor Profiles The Society is proud to have a team of distinguished Instructors.
Colin Baile, Chartered Arbitrator, was
appointed Chairperson of the NWT & Nunavut Workers’ Compensation
Appeals Tribunal in April 2008.
Colin is completing the
Conflict Management Program provided by
the Alberta Arbitration and Mediation Society and has taken several
facilitation courses with International Cultural Affairs (ICA)
including Group Facilitation, The Power of Image Change and
Facilitated Planning.
For several years, Colin has been actively involved in the
development of human rights legislation in the north. In late 1993,
the Legislative Assembly’s Standing Committee on Legislation held
public hearings on the need for ombudsman legislation, to which
Colin presented a draft Ombudsman Act for the Territories. Robert Breaker was born and
raised on the Siksika Nation in traditional Blackfoot Territory
within southern Alberta.
With his B.Ed., Mr. Breaker began his
career with 18 years as an educator in Alberta and Saskatchewan,
fulfilling his roles of teacher, vice-principal, principal and
education director.
With the establishment of
his own consulting company, Breaker & Associates Consultants Ltd.
(1992), he facilitated educational and management services for First
Nations’ communities throughout western Canada.
From 1993 to 1996, he served as the
Executive Director of the Yellowhead Tribal Council in Treaty 6
territory in Alberta.
He served as a ‘Treaty 6 Bilateral
Process’ technician. Returning to Siksika Nation, he was elected
Chief for the Siksika Nation. He actively participated in the Treaty
7 Bilateral Process. He held the education portfolio for the Treaty
7 Tribal Council, and served on the Chiefs’ Summit of Alberta
Steering Committee.
Ms. Gosselin received her B.A. (with distinction, Criminology,
1986), and LL.B. (1989), from the University of Alberta. She
articled with The City of Calgary Law Department in 1989 and was
admitted to the Alberta Bar in 1990. She received her Chartered
Mediator status in January 2000. Ms. Gosselin conducted her own
practice from 1997 to 200; she returned to work for The City of
Calgary in mid-2000.
Nancy Hack is a Chartered Mediator and
Registered Family Mediator.
Nancy mediates for Alberta Justice
Family Mediation Services, Alberta Justice Civil Claims Mediation
Program (Edmonton), and the Albert Human Rights and Citizenship
Commission (conciliator). She volunteers for the Mediation and
Restorative Justice Centre's community and victim-offender programs
(MRJC). Overall, she has conducted well over 300 interest-based
mediations, conciliations and facilitations involving a broad range
of issues.
Dolores Herman is a consultant and the
past
Director of Employee Relations with the Calgary Health Region.
She was a member of the Alberta Labour
Relations Board and regularly sits on arbitration panels as a
nominee.
Dolores has extensive experience in
labour relations and is also an Instructor with the Foundation of
Administrative Justice.
Deborah M. Howes is a Chartered Arbitrator and
Chartered Mediator with the ADR Institute of Canada.
She is the Executive Director of the
Foundation of Administrative Justice, a not-for-profit society
providing administrative tribunal training in western and northern
Canada.
She is also the President of High
Clouds Incorporated, a Canadian company providing seminars and
dispute resolution services.
Ms. Howes holds Certificates in
Arbitration and Conflict Management from the Alberta Arbitration and
Mediation Society, and Bachelor Degrees in Law and Arts.
Robert Pelton, LLB, has been arbitrating since
1984 in labour relations, estates and personal injury claims.
He also mediates in collective
bargaining and grievance mediation. He is a roster mediator for the
Saskatchewan Automobile Accident Insurance
Act.
Robert is also an adjudicator in the
Indian Residential Schools process.
Anne M. Wallace, Q.C., LL.B., Chartered
Arbitrator and Chartered Mediator is a lawyer who, after many years
of law practice, now devotes her full time to work as a dispute
resolution neutral as a solo practitioner with Anne Wallace Legal
Professional Corporation in Saskatoon. Anne’s law practice with
Wallace Meschishnick Clackson Zawada included administrative law,
industrial relations, employment law, human rights, and civil
litigation, including commercial litigation cases. She is now a
mediator, adjudicator and arbitrator. Her work includes labour and
employment, Indian residential schools adjudication, personal
injury, domain name disputes, and commercial among others. Anne also
provides skills based training in conflict resolution and
prevention. Anne has taught decision writing and conduct of a
hearing courses in the past including those sponsored by the
Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice.
Anne holds an LL.B. with Great
Distinction (University of Saskatchewan) and was the gold medallist
in her law class. Anne was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1999. She is
a Chartered Arbitrator and Chartered Mediator. In 2003, she was
awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal for her contribution to the
legal community, the development of the law and the administration
of justice in Canada. In 2004,
Saskatchewan Business Magazine named
her one of Saskatchewan’s Women of
Influence. In February 2006, she was
awarded the Canadian Bar Association’s National Douglas Miller Award
for outstanding dedication and team spirit. Mr.
Adrian Wright is a Yellowknife resident and member of the NWT Law
Society since 1984. Mr. Wright’s private practice at Phillips &
Wright concentrates mainly on the areas of civil litigation and
administrative law. He has acted as counsel in matters under the
Fair Practices Act and the Human Rights Act, as well as the Canadian
Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Mr. Wright has specific arbitration
training, has acted as counsel before many administrative tribunals,
and has been involved in a variety of committees with the NWT Law
Society and the Canadian Bar Association.
In 2008 Adrian was appointed as Chair
and Adjudicator for the NWT Human Rights Commission Adjudication
Panel and an adjudicator in the
Indian residential schools adjudication process.
Archie Zariski is a legally trained Chartered
mediator and conciliator. He holds the degrees of BA, LLB and LLM as
well as a Graduate Diploma in Higher Education.
He has completed mediation training at
the University of Windsor Ontario and through LEADR, South
Australia. In 2008 became as associate professor with Athabasca
University in the areas of administrative law.
For 15 years he practiced law in Edmonton as an associate and
partner before moving to Australia to teach law. At Murdoch
University Law School in Perth, Western Australia he created and
taught courses in dispute resolution, negotiation and mediation.
Archie also conducts mediator training courses for the Institute of
Arbitrators and Mediators Australia, of which he is a member. In May
2005 Archie resettled in
Edmonton. He is a member of the Law Society of Alberta, Canadian Bar
Association, LEADR – Association of Dispute Resolvers, Family
Mediation Canada, ADR Institute of Canada and the Alberta
Arbitration and Mediation Society. Carol Zukiwski’s practice is primarily focused on assisting municipalities and the provincial linear assessor with property assessment complaints and appeals. She appears regularly before the Municipal Government Board and before the Court of Queen's Bench on judicial review. Carol has been on the staff of two Boards, and a member of two additional Boards. She is currently involved in Board member training. Carol is a partner with Reynolds Mirth Richards & Farmer LLP.
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