A recent study found that older adults are spending less time in public due to hostility against people in masks. “The study comes amid what the U.S. Surgeon General recently called an ‘epidemic of loneliness’ in which older adults – especially those who are immune compromised or have disabilities –
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: April 11, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Intimate partner violence could be declared an epidemic in Ontario after Ford government backs NDP bill #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/2vfvecnz – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Dumbest
Max Fawcett writes that Doug Ford is dumbing down Ontario: At an announcement for a new medical school at York University, Ford suggested that he wanted to get rid of all the province’s international post-secondary students. It does not appear to have occurred to Ford that those students currently make
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Can I make my own Will using an online form?
Beware. If you use an online form instead of a lawyer: 1. You aren’t getting personalized advice from a lawyer who has assessed your needs and interests. 2. Nobody is proofreading the document to ensure it is error free, and captures your intentions accurately. 3. Sadly, many online will forms
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Danielle Smith picks Alberta’s hill to die on: No to heat pumps, solar panels, and pharmacare
Alberta’s hill to die on? Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault (Photo: Government of Canada). According to Premier Danielle Smith it’s our God-given right to gas-generated electricity, diesel-powered buses, and gas-heated homes. You want our forced-air gas furnaces, our diesel buses, Guilbeault? Come and take ’em! This is Wild Rose Country
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Questions of Foreign Influence … Raised by the Americans in the Room
If the foreign influence inquiry is going to be useful, let’s investigate the source of funds for all of the angry mobs sprouting up across Canada. The post Questions of Foreign Influence … Raised by the Americans in the Room first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Alex Tanzi reports on new research showing how COVID-19 has radically changed the main causes of death globally. And Michael Peluso et al. study how COVID can persist and do damage to the body long after an initial infection. – Benjamin Wehrmann reports on new
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: don’t assume, Team Tory
You can’t assume anything in politics. That’s a Tip O’Neill truism. He had lots of them. Thomas P. O’Neill was a Democrat, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives for a decade in the Reagan and Bush years. He was the guy who came up with “all politics is
Continue readingMind of Dan: Chasing the Sun, for a Glimpse of Totality
Totality as seen in Mena Arkansas on April 8, 2024. A composite of 9 images taken at different exposures This was supposed to be an easy eclipse to watch. I have family in San Antonio and it would only be a short drive to the centre of the path of
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: April 10, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Arizona Supreme Court Upholds Near-Total Abortion Ban Enacted in 1864 #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://tinyurl.com/5cyk84ad – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Small Minds And Big Power
It will probably come as no surprise to regular readers of this blog that I have a rather low opinion of our species. There are too many small-minded people thinking they are the smartest people in the room, reflecting the classic Dunning-Krueger effect. Nothing can be done about this reality,
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Dying without a Last Will
If you’re making the Last Will there are 4 things that you should think about. 1. Who do I want to leave my property to after I pass away? 2. Who’s the person that I want to appoint to take care of all of my property and affairs after I
Continue readingQueer-liberal: Today’s lament: “Doug Ford is dumbing down Ontario” by Max Fawcett
Today’s lament: “Doug Ford is dumbing down Ontario” by @maxfawcett ‘There’s fierce competition in the unofficial race for Canada’s most dangerous premier, with Alberta’s Danielle Smith deliberately destabilizing her province’s health-care system and Saskatchewan’s Scott Moe literally breaking the law so he can thumb his considerable nose at the carbon
Continue readingA View From the Back Bench: Learning to campaign, for real
In the year following Frank’s nomination, I expressed an interest in getting involved with his campaign and helping him win the eventual by-election. It took a lot of patience, taught me a lot, and left me addicted to the street-fight of election campaigns. [ Continued from Part 1 | 2
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Non-profit news is also infected by corporate ‘pink slime’ in US
“Pink slime’” journalism is a murky world of partisan websites and print outlets that deceptively pose as local news to push political candidates and parties. Photo by lane Becker/Flickr. The explosion of non-profit news in the US seen over the past decade, which a small but growing movement in Canada
Continue readingAlberta Politics: The Recovery War Room: Best practices if ideologically acceptable, but not necessarily best practices
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government tabled legislation yesterday to establish its previously announced Canadian Centre of Recovery Excellence, which appears to be the drug-treatment equivalent of the UCP’s notorious Alberta Energy War Room. Canadian Centre of Recovery Excellence CEO designate Kym Kaufmann (Photo: Kym Kaufmann/Eden Health Services). According to the
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Conservatives, party of the poor?
That headline is one I thought I would never write. “Conservatives, the party of the poor”—you must be joking. But that, in fact, is what a recent survey by Angus Reid indicated. And it was clear, as shown in the graph to the right, the poorer the cohort, the greater
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: April 9, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Canadian DNA lab knew its paternity tests identified the wrong dads, but it kept selling them #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/m92mx66y – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
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