#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Judge grants U of T injunction to clear pro-Palestinian encampment from downtown Toronto campus #law #legal #LegalNews via @CTVNews https://bit.ly/4d4QQvh – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
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Portland is Food Truck City On Monday, while we were driving to Portland, Allan was already sick, and by the time we were settled in our room, I was sick, too. We both slept an insane number of hours, double the sleep I normally get, and felt like crap when
Continue readingThings Are Good: Plant Based Diet Connected to Lower COVID-19 Rates
It’s been years that we’ve been living with COVID-19 and it looks like we missed the window to fully eradicate it, which means we need to adapt our lifestyles to ensure that rates of transmission are as low as possible. Of course, the obvious things involve collective action like improving
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Employment #LawFact of the Day: Were You Terminated with Cause?
It is very difficult for employers to prove “just cause” for termination, unless there is evidence of gross or willful misconduct like theft, fraud, or intentional dereliction of duties. To establish “cause” for termination because of performance concerns, employers must typically provide several written warnings as well as adequate opportunity
Continue readingA View From the Back Bench: Trumping Democracy
On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its split ruling in the jarringly ironic case, “Trump v. United States” in which the former President claimed immunity from criminal prosecution for his attempted coup on January 6, 2021, on the grounds that his actions were conducted in his
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Get off our lawn
Why a Superior Court judge ordered the University of Toronto pro-Hamas occupiers out: it’s private property. Simple.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Moving on from Biden?
As the days pass after Biden’s disastrous debate, I’m reading more stories from people I respect, saying that Biden needs to withdraw from the presidential race. For a time after the debate, I dithered about this. But the problem as I see it now is this: Trump is a terrible
Continue readingAlberta Politics: UCP ends funding deal with Legal Aid Alberta; province’s legal aid system could cease operations next Tuesday
Alberta’s Justice Ministry has halted negotiations with Legal Aid Alberta and the Alberta Law Society for a new governance agreement and terminated its current agreement, leaving the legal aid system in Alberta broke and on the brink of collapse. The Supreme Court of Canada, which sooner or later gets involved
Continue readingScripturient: Review: The Design of Books
Like with so many other technologies in our lives — computers, cars, bread machines, flushing toilets, DVD players, convection ovens — most consumers don’t know or appreciate how books are made, or why they are made in such familiar shapes and structure. In more than four millennia since humans invented
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Jann Arden and Rick Mercer in Regina
May 19th, it was raining, and people were busting a gut to the stories of Canada’s TV duo who egged each other on for the camera.
Continue readingwmtc: random notes from portland (day 7)
Allan and I are both sick, apparently with a flu or some other virus. I rarely get sick — it’s been more than four years — and this has hit us with both barrels. I’m concerned that I may have passed something along to my mother. The world’s smallest hamster
Continue readingExcited Delirium: The World Needs a Progressive 2025 (Now, More Than Ever)
Project 2025 is one step closer to reality. Who’s with me with creating a ‘Progressive 2025 (and Beyond) Manifesto? The post The World Needs a Progressive 2025 (Now, More Than Ever) first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Some Notes on Intelligence
Responding to Benjamin Riley, Modeling Minds (Human and Artificial): What are we talking about when we talk about intelligence? See also the discussion here. In the paper on Modelling Minds Riley writes, ” improving one’s knowledge within a specific domain generally does not significantly improve one’s reasoning abilities.” To
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal News Post of the Day: July 2, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: NHL reinstates former Chicago executives, coach after ban for mishandling sexual assault scandal #law #legal #LegalNews via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3XMIELG – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Tell Me A Story
Regular readers of this blog will likely know that I have great faith in the so-called legacy media, especially newspapers. The reasearch and thought that go into articles and columns far surpass much of what one will find on the internet, especially that very poisoned segment known as social media.
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Top 10 Legal News for the Week of July 2, 2024
– Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingThings Are Good: Batteries Still Works in Winter
The myth that batteries are useless in the winter continues to spread despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. This myth has slowed the uptake of elective vehicles, which is a bad thing. The CEO of a an EV car company is trying their best to dispel that myth and
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of July 2, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 2, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter: Israel’s Supreme Court Rules Ultra-Orthodox Jews Must Be Drafted Into Military Surgeon General Declares Gun Violence a Public Health Crisis Largest First Nation in B.C. now fully responsible for its child welfare services
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Can You Define the Term Woman –
Don’t be like Democratic witness Maya Wiley whose dedication to a misogynistic anti-reality ideology prevents her from even approaching the truth.
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