140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of April 20, 2020. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Apr 20, 2020 at 7:41am PDT – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:
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Wise Law Blog: 140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of April 20, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 20,2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: An ER doctor loses custody of daughter because of coronavirus fears How Toronto police used controversial facial recognition technology to solve the senseless murder of an innocent man Nearly 6 million people have applied
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140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of April 13, 2020. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Apr 13, 2020 at 6:18am PDT – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:
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Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 13,2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: R. Kelly requests bail because of Covid-19, but a federal judge turns him down Ontario government liberalizing weed sales during COVID-19 pandemic Judge cites dictionary definition of ‘espionage,’ crushes decision to keep alleged Russian
Continue readingWise Law Blog: CoVid19: Federal Relief Initiatives for Canada’s Employers, Employees, and Workplaces
Bradley Waese, CPA, CA, Managing Partner of SF Partnership, LLP joins @wiselaw‘s Garry J. Wise in discussion about the federal government’s CoVid19 relief initiatives for employers, employees and workplaces. Information is current as of April 10, 2020, but expect that these programmes may continue to evolve and change. * –
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140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of April 6, 2020. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Apr 6, 2020 at 7:32am PDT – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:
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Last week, Wise Law’s Legally Adulting teamed up with JNF Toronto on Zoom to answer your questions about #Covid19 and the Law. Here is the video of the session: – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
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Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 6,2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: PM warns employers will face ‘serious consequences’ if 75% COVID-19 wage subsidies misused Antiquated technology holding Ontario’s justice system back during COVID-19 crisis Summary judgment issued in CIBC employees’ groundbreaking unpaid overtime class action
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Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of March 30, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Watch: Mayor John Tory to declare state of emergency for Toronto Small businesses walloped by COVID-19 rules, says Toronto board of trade N.J. man faces terror charges after coughing on grocery store worker,
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BY SIMRAN BAKSHI, ASSOCIATE LAWYER UPDATE: With Ontario today mandating closure of all non-essential businesses, effective March 25, we can urgently hope for updated legislation shortly, to guide employers’decisions in the face of CoVid19, and to provide much-needed income security benefits for employees. Pending such an announcement, however, we must assume that
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Gender Issues Relating to Children: California intersex surgery bill fails
BY GARRY WISE AND SIMRAN BAKSHI Reprinted from The Lawyer’s Daily In a highly controversial decision last month, a California senate committee voted against proceeding with a bill that would ban cosmetic genital surgery on intersex infants. The term intersex refers to persons born with genitalia, chromosomes or reproductive organs that
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Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of March 16, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Duncan Hunter Sentenced to 11 Months in Prison for Stealing Campaign Funds Justin Trudeau to unveil emergency compensation plan Wednesday as COVID-19 fears deepen ‘This is changing hour by hour, day by day’:
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Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of March 16, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Prince Andrew Is Stonewalling in Epstein Case, Prosecutor Says Led Zeppelin wins ‘Stairway’ fight County where San Jose Sharks play bans mass gatherings due to coronavirus rates Ford government’s legal aid plan will
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Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of March 2, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Group of US federal judges calls emergency meeting, USA Today reports A Complete List of Trump’s Pardons and Commutations Today Ontario government proposes new powers to expropriate land, reduce environmental approvals Boy Scouts
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Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of February 17, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Police arrest anti-pipeline protesters at Vancouver port as they enforce court injunction Amazon Wants To Depose Trump Over Order To ‘Screw’ It Out Of $10B | Talking Points Memo California police officer suing
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Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of February 10, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Philadelphia Flyers’ mascot Gritty cleared in alleged assault, police say Lawmaker quotes ‘Harry Potter’ to make impeachment argument A Berkely school played ‘The Lion King’ at a fundraising event. Now it has to
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Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of February 3, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: An Arizona woman can’t use her frozen embryos after divorce, state Supreme Court rules Prince Andrew has not cooperated with attempts to interview him about Jeffrey Epstein, US Attorney says Doctors Could Face
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Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 27, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Lev Parnas asks Attorney General William Barr to recuse himself from investigation Trump Legal Team Asks Senate for Speedy Acquittal in Impeachment Trial Divorced father of three finds that splitting up can lead
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BY GARRY WISE AND SIMRAN BAKSHI Reprinted from The Lawyer’s Daily As Hillary Clinton famously observed, it takes a village to raise a child. In many cultures, this philosophy is quite literally represented in the way family units are structured. Parents, children, grandparents, aunts, uncles and even cousins often live
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Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 20, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Ontario Warned of a Nuclear ‘Emergency,’ Then Said Never Mind False alert about Pickering nuclear plant caused widespread alarm, but some residents ‘not worried’ Pakistan court annuls Musharaff’s death sentence: prosecutor US Supreme
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