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r/LawCanada

80.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 517 upvotes, which works out to 6 per 1,000 members.

6peak upvotes per 1,000 members
80.5Kmembers
517best post
345most comments
301posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

53% 47%
Text 53% Question 47%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Did I spend 8 years becoming a lawyer just to make $50k with no benefits?

↑ 517 💬 345 question 2026

Thoughts on UofT Law “Laptop Ban” Policy

↑ 293 💬 238 text 2026

Ontarians need a bar license to practice law, but a 2-year college diploma to run bail court. Why are we still tolerating a non-lawyer lay bench?

↑ 190 💬 125 question 2026

Why makes lawyers so weird?

↑ 133 💬 95 question 2026

I enjoy being a lawyer but it makes me miss my old life.

↑ 111 💬 34 text 2026

Is Law saturated in Canada?

↑ 105 💬 122 question 2026

Should law schools keep increasing spots when number of jobs is not going up?

↑ 98 💬 106 question 2026

Lawyer wants to bill me to fix typos, poor grammar, etc

↑ 84 💬 190 text 2026

Really sad during articling

↑ 79 💬 26 text 2026

"There is a shortage of lawyers outside of big cities"

↑ 64 💬 80 text 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/LawCanada, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/LawCanada have?
r/LawCanada has about 80.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 301 of its posts; the biggest reached 517 upvotes, which is 6 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/LawCanada?
"Did I spend 8 years becoming a lawyer just to make $50k with no benefits?" reached 517 upvotes and 345 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/LawCanada.
What subreddits are similar to r/LawCanada?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/InvictaSolaris, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche.
What kind of posts do best on r/LawCanada?
Of the posts we hold, 53% are text posts and 47% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/LawCanada?
Across 301 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 00:00 UTC (173 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 02:00 UTC (61 avg upvotes), Sunday at 02:00 UTC (27 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/LawCanada?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/LawCanada has 36 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 187 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/LawCanada, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.