A Toolkit for Addressing Misinformation
Democracy functions best when the people are well educated and the group Evidence for Democracy wants exactly that: a smart public. With COVID vaccinations well underway it’s important to understand…
May 2021
Simran Bakshi on Family Law: Simran Bakshi on Family Law: Spouses reminded that there are no free lunches when it comes to Property acquired during a Common Law Relationship
The Court of Appeal in Walters v Nusseiri, 2020 ONCA 615 affirmed that a common law spouse who does not contribute towards a property, may not have an entitlement to…
Talking Potential COVID Re-Opening Thresholds with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Lindsay Maskell & Jason Lietaer for the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health’s…
Much More Than Cowardice
The conventional wisdom these days is that Republicans are doing what they’re doing because they’re cowards. Greg Sargeant writes: As a broad description of our current moment, this is profoundly…
He shoots flowers, doesn’t he?
Okay, yes. I should’ve trimmed back the winter kill on the peonies. And, yes, that’s Joey and Roxy about to collide with me. But I wanted to show you these…
Just a voice in the wilderness!
The truth is that blogs get as much attention as just another mosquito in the wildness of Ontario. No matter what the readership numbers, you never seem to reach the…
Kaycee Madu’s claim Liberals and New Democrats want Alberta to be overwhelmed by COVID-19 is just classic gaslighting
When Alberta Justice Minister Kaycee Madu said the federal Liberals, the Alberta NDP and the media all hoped Alberta would be overwhelmed by COVID-19, he was gaslighting. He’s just not…
Safe Schools in September – Second Try
Last September, despite all the science to the contrary, school boards opened schools with “mask breaks” built in to the mornings rather than have a shorter day and let the…
Carbon Wars?
What the hell is it? Is it a tax? Is it a levy? Does it matter? As I read it, they’re talking about a global price on carbon. The idea…
America’s Juggernaut – the Perma-War Machine
“We kept our country at peace. We never went to war. We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a bullet. But still we achieved our international goals.” C’mon, quick.…
Here’s Our Problem
Caitlin Johnstone is a self-described “rogue journalist” from Australia. She’s fiercely critical of the United States, too much for my taste, and almost as hard on matters cultural and artistic.…
Legal Tweet of Day: May 10, 2021
#LegalTweetOfTheDay: FAA Fines Air Passengers Who Clashed Over Mask Rules via The New York Times – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Marcin Osuchowski et al. highlight the importance of updating our understanding of COVID-19 rather than presuming it behaves the same way as previously-studied…
Talking Tighten COVID-19 Restrictions and Tensions on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We discussed the latest discussions around COVID, the increasing…
The Xinjiang genocide allegations are unjustified
Activist Irade Kashgary waves a flag of the Uighur region as she takes part in a protest outside of the Apple Store on K Street, July 30, 2020 in Washington,…
Musings on Shakespeare’s Goodbye
Prospero’s words in Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest, have long been thought to have been Shakespeare’s own goodbye to the theatrical world, assuming, of course, you are reading the play or…
north island life: in which we buy a generator (when in rome)
Our new friend Here on Vancouver Island, frequent power outages are a fact of life. Obviously outages happen everywhere, but when high-wind storms come ripping off the Pacific, we’re the…
Cheney’s Long Game
A civil war is being waged within the Republican Party. It appears that Liz Cheney will be a casualty of that war. But Conrad Yakabuski writes that the Cheneys settle…
Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the week of May 10, 2021
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of May 10, 2021. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of May 10, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 10, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: CN withholding pension from gay widower over outdated definition of spouse Texas…