Wise Law’s Top Ten Legal News Post for the Week of August 24, 2026
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of August 24, 2026
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of August 24, 2026 from Wise Law on Twitter:Supreme Court again rebuffs Trump’s push to toss out $5 million verdict in…
Of Trade Deals, Foreign Interference, and Conservative Leadership In Canada
We talk a lot about "foreign interference" in Canadian politics, but we don't very often talk about the single biggest source of interference in Canada's political discourse: the United States.…
Maura L. Gillison, Who Linked Throat Cancers to HPV, Dies at 61
This popped up in my feed today from an Aug 9 New York Times obituary, no doubt due to some smart algorithm searching. I hope
Vassal Statehood Averted
A vassal state is a nation that, while often appearing to be independent, has its sovereignty and decision-making powers significantly constrained and dictated by a more powerful state. Its ability…
Under Poilievre, We’d Have CUSMAGA
I have heard from many Conservatives that under Pierre Poilievre we would have had a deal with the Americans, and they are most certainly right — having a Prime Minister…
Sunday Funday: Canada Strong, plus some cartoons, some good posts, TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers and Wildfire Update
Canada Strong Carney's speech and press conference Saturday morning: I saw no criticism anywhere about what Carney said or how he said it - clear, informative, straightforward, understandable. View on…
A trade war with the U.S. may not be great, but the day after Labour Day 2026 is a great moment for it to start
If a country had to pick a moment to strike back with targeted countervailing tariffs at the Trump Administration’s habitual bad-faith trade bargaining, surely it would be difficult to imagine…
The pencil case
Trump branded pencils
Looking at BC Hydro
BC Hydro has released its annual report. Several realities stand out. Electricity demand from residential, commercial, and light industrial customers remains flat while power delivered to heavy industry has increased.…
Civic election issues from yesteryear
A collection of London Ontario civic elections cartoons from previous years Candidate registrations are over. Some are already knocking.
Saturday Photo: Dog Days in Mile End
Well, according to Wikipedia the Dog Days of Summer run from July 19 to Aug.11, so this beast sitting on a car in Montreal's Mile End neighborhood last weekwas a…
For Canada, the best deal is no deal. Because we’re not going to be America’s Guam North
Canada reached its gag limit with these jerks. I know it might be terrible news for our industrial workers and manufacturers, but Canada now understands that Free Trade is dead,…
Musical interlude
Eli & Fur feat. Tailor - Ceremony
Some election themed cartoons from the past
We gathered a few thought-relevant cartoons from yesteryears. Check ‘Em out here: https://wp.me/P38YJ-4zk
A Bad Deal Is Better Than No Deal?
Honestly, I had resolved not to write another post about the pending surrender trade 'deal' between the U.S. and Canada until I knew the full dimensions of the capitulation. What…
Outrageous
Residents of a condominium for people aged 55 and older, at 255 Erickson Road, have been locked out of their homes for more than two and a half years following…
It is true that we do not know what is in the deal withthe Trump administration or even if there is a deal. But we cannot wait until it is too late to express our concerns. While I understand why the government does not want to negotiate in public, we have no idea what if any bottom lines our negotiators have or what they believe success looks like. Instead what we know is that a trail of concessions brought us to this point and a deal will mean more concessions and all evidence suggests that tariffs are here to stay. If the government uses the standard that we want tariffs lower than other countries it has set a very low bar given that our economic relationship with the US and the implications of the tariffs are not like other countries.
There are at least three reasons to be concerned about signing a deal. One is moral and little discussed. But we are negotiating with a fascist regime desperately looking for…
Today’s News: Negotiating Tariff Deal Straight and Tariff Deal Crazy
From what I am reading tonight, I suspect there are actually two Tariff Deals being negotiated now between Canada and the Trump administration.TDStraight is the straightforward normal Tariff Deal where…
Danielle Smith, of all people, should have seen UCP problems with AI data centres coming
You’d think Danielle Smith, of all people, would have seen her government’s troubles with Artificial Intelligence data centres coming right up Highway 2. After all, back in the early Twenty-teens…