It is obviously just human nature to sometimes react with outrage and certitude when confronted with something that seems to beggar common sense. We have likely all experienced such a response at one time or another. The recent acquittal of Ulmar Zameer, charged with murdering a police officer, is an
Continue readingThings Are Good: Cool Cities Have Botanical Gardens
If you live near a park you know that even a small amount of nature can cool the local environment, and you know that the bigger the park the more cool it is. In terms of a land-to-cooling-effect ratio certain types of parks are more efficient than others with the
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Doug Ford: Should we be thankful for small mercies ?
So is there anything good to say about Doug Ford. Well he is not Pierre Poilievre or Danielle Smith. At least Ford does not seek votes by appealing to people’s fears and hatred. He is more of an old fashioned corporations know best, privatization will solve all our problems, capitalist
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Employment #LawFactof the Day: How to resign the right way?
An employee is obligated to give reasonable notice of intention to resign from his or her position of employment. The amount of notice to be given will depend on a number of factors including any provision in an employment agreement that sets out the amount of notice of resignation that
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Another School Came Around
Slides from Yale School of Public Health, one of the oldest school in Public Health and Epidemiology:
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Once upon a time Danielle Smith told Marco Van Huigenbos, ‘Coutts must win!’ Now she can’t even find the poor guy’s phone number
Now that the chickens are coming home to roost for some of the would-be Canadian colour revolutionaries of 2022, a certain amount if schadenfreude in social media was inevitable given the rhetoric of the Coutts blockaders and Ottawa occupiers. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, in whom Mr. Van Huigenbos once put
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – The Climate Change Performance Update’s latest update shows Canada tumbling to the bottom of the world’s development countries in climate performance – even as right-wing petropoliticians demand that we make matters worse. Justin Ling discusses how we’ve ended up with that painful gap
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: April 22, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Opening Statements in Trump’s Criminal Trial to Begin Monday #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://tinyurl.com/yckcsfz9 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingThings Are Good: eBikes are Killing the Oil Industry
This Earth Day it’s good to reflect on one’s own love for the planet Earth. If you want to express your love and appreciation for this ball of rock and air that orbits then Sun then you should ride a bike everyday. If an ordinary bike isn’t your style then
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: like father, unlike son
The terror groups, and their supporters, are busy. In the neighborhoods lived in by those they hate, they have firebombed mailboxes and public buildings. They have attacked banks and the residences of politicians. They have attacked government buildings, and businesses where people go to shop. They have issued statements about
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of April 22, 2024
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Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of April 22, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 22, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter: Tribunal dismisses appeal of former Toronto cop who was fired after tweeting workplace harassment allegations ‘Rust’ Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed Is Sentenced for Involuntary Manslaughter Trump’s historic hush money trial begins with jury selection
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Bill Maher – I Think He Is Starting to Get It.
The queering of our culture needs to stop. It has flown under the radar as “inclusion” and “diversity” but its goal is neither. Queer identity is an identity without an essence, it exists in opposition to every norm in society. Some norms in society DO need changing, but not all
Continue readingAlberta Politics: How did Danielle Smith know about an anonymous letter alleging dirty deeds at the city of Edmonton before it arrived?
Albertans are being asked to believe the provincial government doesn’t keep copies of every piece of correspondence it receives, including some it formally acts upon. Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). To say this strains credulity understates the matter considerably. Yet this is precisely what Alberta Premier
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: April is the Cruelest Month
A few snowflakes this morning, but the ponds at the Technoparc were clear and the geese were cruising. Still, spring seems a long way off,,,
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: It’s About Over-Extraction
The Liberals say that their budget is about restoring generational fairness. Some economists say that the problem is over-extraction. Evan Dyer writes: “Income matters less than it used to. Access to secure housing matters so much more,” said Paul Kershaw, a professor at the UBC School of Population and Public
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