Albertans are within their rights to wonder if it’s OK for any Alberta lawyer to throw a tantrum in their neighbour’s driveway in light of the ruling by the Alberta Law Society yesterday that former United Conservative Party health minister Tyler Shandro was not behaving unprofessionally when he melted down
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal News Post of the Day: July 18, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Manitoba youth in care allowed to go to homes where they were sexually exploited: search warrant #law #legal #LegalNews via @CBCNews https://rb.gy/evum7u – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: For The Sake Of My Sanity
I have been avoiding most American news these days, given how the media are fixated both on the attempt against Trump’s life and his coronation via the Republican National Convention. However, Trump’s VP running mate, J.D. Vance, merits closer scrutiny. The Independent offers the perspective of one of his former
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What is an Executor?
What is an Executor? An Executor is the person who’s the legal representative of your Estate. After you die, your Executor is responsible for taking all of the assets and properties that you own and distributing it to your heirs. If you’re thinking about who should be your Executor, you
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: A Tough Row To Hoe
Progressives in the United States and Canada have a leadership crisis on their hands. Michael Harris writes: In both countries, the progressive parties are in a crisis of leadership. For very different reasons, the parties themselves are deeply conflicted about their incumbents: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau here, and President Joe
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: A BC industry in decline
I have been reading about the history of British Columbia’s forest industry. I lack thorough expertise, but I think it is fair to say that short-term thinking by self-interested industrialists and politicians has caused serious damage to public assets that were vital building blocks of this province…
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: too soon.
Too soon? That was the question being asked, online, 24 hours after the assassination attempt on Donald J. Trump. People – not always anonymous, and some of them not necessarily Democrats – were posting funny and not-so-funny memes about Trump and the foiled assassination. One showed Trump depicted as artist
Continue readingwmtc: what i’m reading: the red parts: a powerful, haunting memoir of trauma, loss, and the limits of justice
This is why I keep a running book list that is decades long. For more than 15 years, my list has included this note. The Red Parts – Maggie Nelson – murder of aunt she never knew The Red Parts was published in 2007. I never would have remembered it. But it
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Why I Attribute
Alan Levine gave me the old h/t (hat tip) for referencing a post recently on AI and copyright law. In a follow-up he recognized my own version of the h/t, the ‘via’ link, where I credit Clint Lalonde for the find. It makes for a nice neat chain: Of course
Continue readingmark a. rayner: All hail the talented editor!
One of the great joys of writing at a professional level (however you define that) is getting to work with a talented editor. I’ve been… The post All hail the talented editor! appeared first on mark a. rayner.
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: New U.K. Government Signals Ambition on Labour Reforms
The new UK government is signaling some reasonably ambitious reforms on the labour policy front (certainly more ambitious than most were expecting, given the Labour Party’s austere pre-election rhetoric and platform). They call the vision a New Deal for Working People . The policy framework is called A Plan to
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal News Post of the Day: July 17, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Toronto flooding: Pictures, videos show heavy rainfall in downtown core #law #legal #LegalNews via @CTVNews https://rb.gy/shfdnf – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Family #LawFact of the Day: Same-Sex Marriage in Canada
The first same-sex marriage in Ontario occurred on January 14, 2001. Its legality, along with the legality of many other same-sex marriages, was affirmed by the Ontario Court of Appeal on June 10, 2003 in a case called Halpern v. Canada. Same-sex marriage and divorce have been recognized throughout Canada
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: LCBO strike is also about public health
Photo by Douglas Sprott/Flickr More than 9,000 unionized workers of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) have been on strike for almost two weeks against Premier Doug Ford’s privatization and union-busting campaign. Rather than return to the bargaining table in anything approaching good faith, Ford has continually attacked the
Continue readingA View From the Back Bench: The Most Sincere Liberal Vice
If I were to boil down liberals’ greatest challenge to a single word, it would be sincerity. Liberals fundamentally believe that simply doing a good job will be noticed and rewarded by electors. Balance the disparate needs of the country, avoid radical controversy, keep the economy afloat, modestly improve the
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Canada’s response to Sudanese humanitarian crisis reflects systemic racism
A Chadian camp for displaced people who fled violence in Darfur at the Chad-Sudan border where over 90,000 people have fled and thousands have been displaced. Photo by Henry Wilkins/VOA/Wikimedia Commons. Sudan’s protracted war Airstrikes destroying primary schools with bombs. Hundreds of thousands of people displaced from one city to
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Frozen Logger
As I stepped out one morning into a small cafeA 40 year old waitress to me these words did say…She said, “I see, sir, that you are a logger, and not just […]
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Starmer’s Labour: the UK establishment’s supernova
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks at Cambridge. Photo by Chris Boland (www.chrisboland.com). Speaking from 10 Downing Street, newly elected Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that the country had voted “decisively” for change and “for national renewal and a return of politics to public service.” Neither claim could be further
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal News Post of the Day: July 16, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Toronto police officers were ‘misleading’ to justify use of force during raid of rapper’s condo: judge #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://rb.gy/y95y7b – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
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