LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday September 19, 2017. Today we are talking about Employment Law. Ontario employees are prohibited from discrimination and harassment against any…
2017
Man with giant Recipe for Hate sign on head invades Daisy Group
Frightens small children, etc. Film at eleven.
Taxing Wealth
One hundred years ago, Teddy Roosevelt warned Americans about, “a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men whose chief object is to hold and increase their power.” So…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – George Eaton discusses how some U.S. state governments are taking steps to fight inequality with taxes at the top of the income…
Andrew Scheer’s Disastrous Day In The Commons
It should have been a crowning moment for Andrew Scheer. His first day in the returning House of Commons, as the new leader of the Harper Party.His first chance to…
What ‘New’ Democratic Party?
We are hearing that ‘Love is in the air’ and the New Democratic Party of Canada is facing the future to the beat of new drums. Everyone anticipates that this…
Learn Economics for Free in the Most Effective Way
Economics is a large field filled with nuance – and assumptions. One of those assumptions is that environmental concerns and inequality are secondary to that of economic concerns. These assumptions…
Nomination Day kicks off Edmonton’s 2017 Municipal Elections
Photo: Sarah Chan (left) and her husband, Mayor Don Iveson (right), at Nomination Day at Edmonton City Hall. Dedicated citizens across Alberta gathered this morning in town halls and community…
Where’s the police? The Crown? The AG? Where’s the outrage?
A tweet by James Sears, the Hitler-loving and Holocaust-denying rapist editor of Your Ward News. Will anything be done by the authorities? I doubt it.
A few thoughts about the NDP leadership race…
A few thoughts about the NDP leadership race… …from a Twitter thread I wrote earlier this evening, in the unlikely event that anyone is interested in what I have to…
Coming out of the closet: I joined the NDP and I’m voting for Guy Caron
NDP leadership candidate Guy Caron I wrote last week about the future of the New Democratic Party, as well as the future for progressive politics in Canada. Since then, I’ve…
Christy Clark’s Secret Consultations with Oil and Gas Donors Revealed As B.C. Introduces Bill to Ban Big Money in Politics
Documents released on Monday reveal that B.C.’s climate plan under the previous Liberal government was drafted by the oil and gas industry in a Calgary boardroom, just as the province’s…
This week’s column: good advice from a veteran
The only reason sane people get involved in politics – or create a work of art, or write a book, or build a bridge, or climb mountains – is because…
Monbiot on the Malignancy of Growth
It’s encouraging to see more voices speaking out against the heresy of modern politics – perpetual, exponential growth. There are those, our prime minister among them, who cling to the…
John Tory is going to be pretty hard to beat – from the Right or Left
Check this out, from the folks at Campaign Research: What does that all mean? It means that – at this stage – Toronto’s mayor is in pretty good shape, I’d…
Top 10 Legal headlines for the Week of September 18, 2017
140Law: Here are our Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of September 18, 2017. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Ritika Goel writes that good jobs lead to all kinds of ancillary benefits to both the health of workers, and the strength of…
An Ugly And Growing Reality
Although I have written before about the terrible problem of plastic pollution that is strangling the world in general, and our oceans and marine life in particular, it seems that…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of September 18, 2017
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of September 18, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter: California sues Trump administration over ending DACA, joining 15 other states, D.C.…