#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
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Cory Doctorow discusses the inherent impossibility of trying to build any public good on an economic system centered on selfishness: This is the problem at the core of “mechanism design” grounded in “rational self-interest.” If you try to create a system where people
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Conversational Gambits that are Annoying – Guilt By Association
The second part of my series on conversational gambits and habits that are annoying, funnily enough, happened in the first Gambits post I made. Go check out the comment section as I will be pulling my example for this post directly from the text of a commentor. “Guilt by
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: A Weird, Weird World
Fifty years ago, Louis Armstrong had a big hit singing “What A Wonderful World.” That song doesn’t characterize the world we live in. Susan Riley writes: Anyone looking for evidence that we live in a post-policy, post-fact, increasingly incoherent political moment only needs to look at the war against the
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
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Louis Brandeis (1856-1941) was a U.S. Supreme Court Justice for 23 years from 1916. He was nominated by Woodrow Wilson but the President’s choice was hotly contested. Writing for the New York Times in 1964, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas explained the opposition was because the nominee frightened the
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Danielle Smith squirms at thought of Jason Kenney’s Critical Infrastructure Defence Act used against her allies
You might be tempted to think Alberta Premier Danielle Smith was on the right track with her obvious discomfort at the thought of her predecessor’s Critical Infrastructure Defence Act being used to prosecute the so-called anti-carbon-tax protesters impeding traffic alomg the Trans-Canada Highway west of Calgary. A few of the
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: the Super Bowl for nutbars
ST. ELIZABETH PARISH, JAMAICA – Jamaica wasn’t really the best place to see the eclipse on Monday. For one thing, it’s way too far from what the scientists were calling “the totality,” which has an unsettling end-times feel to it (we’ll get back to that in an minute). For another thing,
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Watch this
Want to know why Trump is going to lose? Here’s just one more.
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: How the Fossil Fuel Industry Can Save Itself and the Planet
The fossil fuel industry seems to have a romantic fascination with “all the oil in the ground”, a fascination that shields it from financial reality. There are two things absolutely true about the fossil fuel industry. It has a finite end because there is a finite end to the oil
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Let’s Go Back To The DSM III !
Apparently there is a belief held among certain members of the trans community that we should go back in time … back to the days of the DSM III in particular – at least for what is now referred to as Gender Dysphoria. (If you wish to read the DSM
Continue readingwmtc: "i’m afraid to leave the house, because i’ll hear about another death": the ongoing crises and the toll on frontline workers
The branch supervisor of the Port Hardy Librarymade these, on her own initiative. We have givenaway more than 50 of these “crisis keychains” so far.Front and back pictured here. The Port Hardy community has been besieged with a series of untimely deaths, many of young people. This has been going
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: April 8, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Greta Thunberg released after Dutch climate protest arrest, rejoins protest and is arrested again #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/49ffd8fp – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: On This Eclipse Day
The crazed populist and evangelical set is trumpeting today’s eclipse as yet another indicator of the end times. Marjorie Taylor Greene, never one to pass up an opportunity to display her moronic mentality, had this to say: … the firebrand Republican congresswoman raised eyebrows with a tweet: “God is sending
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of April 8, 2024
– 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 Legal Headlines for the week of April 8, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 8, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter: Trump posts $175M bond in civil fraud case, then hit with expanded gag order in hush money case Trump Gag Order Is Expanded to Stop Attacks on Judge Merchan’s Family Woman arrested after
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Conversational Gambits that are Annoying – Disagreement vs. Hate
Controversial topics are hard to talk about. What makes the process even more difficult is when one side, for whatever reason, decides that disagreeing with their position is equivalent to you *hating* their position. The disagreement=hate confab is almost an exclusive feature of attempting to dialogue with someone on the
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Fighting the commodification of housing
Century home and adjacent lot comprising the 214-230 Sherbourne properties. Photo by Andre Bermon. For the last year and a half, I have been part of a local grassroots struggle that is unfolding in Toronto’s poor working class Downtown East community. We are challenging the commodification of housing, the destructive
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: The abuse of entrusted power for private gain
Corruption erodes trust, weakens democracy, hampers economic development and further exacerbates inequality, poverty, social division and the environmental crisis. Exposing corruption and holding the corrupt to account can only happen if we understand the way corruption works and the systems that enable it.
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