#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
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Connecting The Dots
Were we abundantly blessed with critical-thinking skills, we would have no problem asking some serious questions about the direction in which Ontario is headed with Doug Ford at the helm. As well, we would be able to discern a pattern that suggests the premier is leading us nowhere good. I am
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Employment #LawFact of the Day: Severance Entitlements of Long-Term Employees
In 2015, an Ontario Court awarded 27 months’ of pay in lieu of reasonable notice to a 65-year-old civil engineer who had been employed for 40.66 years. In exceptional circumstances involving extraordinarily long-service employees, it is within the discretion of Ontario Courts to award more than 24 months’ damages. Seek
Continue readingAlberta Politics: What did Danielle Smith say after the shooting at Edmonton City Hall? Nothing! She was too busy chatting with Tucker Carlson!
That startling sound you heard yesterday was probably just a co-worker spitting their coffee over their smartphone after Alberta Premier Danielle Smith clutched her pearls and advised progressive politicians to take it easy on their MAGA Canada counterparts lest someone get hurt. A screenshot of security camera footage of the
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Trump and inciting violence
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has responded to the Trump shooting by asking progressives to “dial down” the way they characterize conservative politicians, blaming them for the toxic culture in the U.S. “I think we have to be very mindful that we can have a disagreement in politics, but we have
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: What’s on your mind?
As you may have gathered Ms Soapbox is still under the weather. I’ve realized that what I miss the most about not writing is not getting your comments. Consequently I’d like to open the Soapbox to you. I’d be interested in your thoughts on all the crazy things that have
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Chris Hedges: the old evil
“Which Genocide Are You On?” Illustration by Mr. Fish. It comes back in a rush, the stench of raw sewage, the groan of the diesel, sloth-like Israeli armoured personnel carriers, the vans filled with broods of children, driven by chalky faced colonists, certainly not from here, probably from Brooklyn or
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Lorna Emma Bridget Cleary Kinsella
Use your thumb for the clouds, my Mom said. It was the pandemic. My life had blown up, I was living with two labs in an old farmhouse on an island, and nobody was allowed to go near anyone else. Creatively, I didn’t have another book in me. My band
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal News Post of the Day: July 15, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Trump whisked offstage after apparent gunshots ring out at campaign rally #law #legal #LegalNews via @CBCNews https://rb.gy/bvc2qd – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: A Good Businessman?
A decade ago, the government of Ontario replaced our LCBO with a much bigger building. It does a roaring business, particularly in the summer. These days, there’s a long picket line outside the building. Almost a decade ago, Doug Ford rode to power, promising a “buck a beer” and wider
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Canada runs on subsidies. Why shouldn’t news media get them?
Photo by Alex Proimos/Wikimedia Commons The recent Ottawa Declaration on Canadian Journalism signed by right-wing think tanks, publications and journalists calling on news media to stop taking the subsides that our largest newspapers lobbied long and hard for provided a bit of a laugh, but it actually made a few
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Unmasking the Real Villain
The Tour de France is now mandating masks after several riders got Covid and had to leave the race. But so many other reports of people getting physically sick still attribute illness to bizarre causes: People love to feel safe and secure, so it’s comforting to think we just need
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Top 10 #LegalNewsPosts for the Week of July 15, 2024
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Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of July 15, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 15, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter: Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud, pay $243M US fine in proposed deal over fatal crashes ‘Growing tension’ inside the public service over Indigenous self-identification University of Guelph issues trespass notice to
Continue readingScripturient: Trump, Ozymandias, and the Hubris of Ambition
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley in his 1817 poem, Ozymandias, the ancient king who called himself in the poem, the ” king of kings.” I was thinking about that poem as I watched the news that an AR-15-wielding, fellow MAGA Repugnican had shot
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: How our struggles are contained by those in power
Public servants marched around Parliament Hill as 155,000 Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) members went on strike, April 19, 2023. Photo by Spencer Colby/Flickr. After decades of involvement in trade union and anti-poverty struggles, I find myself thinking more and more about the lessons I have learned along the
Continue readingAlberta Politics: That bid to create a separate Sheriffs Branch officers’ union can’t succeed without help from the UCP Government – so what’s up?
Despite media coverage Thursday about a group of Alberta Sheriffs Branch officers who say they’d like to break away from the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees and form their own union, that could not happen without support from the United Conservative Party Government. Sheriff Branch Officers Association President Dornubari Tornwe
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Weekend Funny Stuff and Animal Crackers
We need a break before plunging into the fresh hell of next week. First, some funny stuff: Lenin said this, or maybe didn’t say it, but in either case it’s apt right now: “There are decades where nothing happens. and there are weeks where decades happen.” — — Bill Kristol
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Scoring Canada environmentally
There is no issue of more importance than the environment. If we can’t learn to live sustainably on this unique and wonderful planet, civilization as we know it will collapse. We may even follow the billions of other species into extinction. It is, therefore, essential that we monitor our progress
Continue readingQueer-liberal: Donald Trump suffers assassination attempt after 9 years of promoting violence and vicious disrespect against his own political opponents including inciting the Jan 6th insurrection
Yesterday, a horrifying and terrible incident happened in Butler, Pennsylvania where a gunman shot bullets at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during an outdoor political rally, grazing Trump’s ear, critically injuring two other spectators, and killing another innocent spectator. Secret service on the scene within seconds shot dead the shooter,
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