Notwithstanding This Crap
It’s been a rough three years in Ontario, and that’s before you factor in the hellish 15 months, we’ve had with the COVID pandemic. The one constant in all of…
June 2021
Legal Tweet of the Day: June 9, 2021
#LegalTweetOfTheDay: What to Know About Workplace Mask Rules via The New York Times Read more: http://bit.ly/WiseLawLegalTweet06092021 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
Back to the Start in Alberta
It was just a couple of months ago that I wrote a piece here about Alberta UCP Premier Jason Kenney and his fall in his province. As I put it…
There Must Be A Better Word
The word phobia generally connotes an irrational fear of something. A definition of the term from a mental health perspective tells us it is a type of anxiety disorder that…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Devon McKendrick reports on Manitoba’s announcement of a digital vaccine passport as a means of both incentivizing people to get vaccinations, and ensuring…
A Rising Tide of Hate
Canadians have been rocked by what happened in London, Ontario. But what happened there was not new. During the pandemic, however, our focus was elsewhere. Glen Pearson writes: While the…
Legally Adulting Online
Highlights from #LegallyAdultingOnline: Paul Adam discusses when you should make a Will and Simran Bakshi considers whether employers can require employees to be vaccinated. Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/pqzAm0OXQCA…
The hypocrites
Every federal leader is silent when Quebec enacts it’s anti-Muslim legislation, and then expect us to listen to their pious speeches after the mass murder of Muslims in London this…
Attempting Harmless Fashion
The concept of sustinable fashion is more of a goal than something that can be put into practice. One company, Asket, is taking a different spin on making the fashion…
RSS and the Browser As Social Network
Google Reader – source Responding to Mark Berthelemy. RSS was essentially disappeared because there wasn’t a good business model for commercialization. Centralized social networks work much better for user tracking…
Egerton Ryerson is mouldering.
Is it alright to debase and deface a statue? Are we all given the right to do thousands of dollars in damage to statues of people who are long dead?…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats at rest.
You owe us an explanation, Mr. O’Toole
In a recent letter to the prime minister (which he gratuitously tweeted to the general public), Conservative leader Erin O’Toole had this to say about the proposed global tax agreement:…
A Thirst for Vision
Has the world stopped behaving rationally or was that just a figment of my imagination? The world, as in humanity, human civilization, the community of nations can, at times, appear…
Covid Journal, June 8, 2021
During what I feel are ‘post-Covid’ times, a lot of people are doing a very poor job of being good humans: racists in London, ON; loggers of our legacy in…
Referendumbs and Equalization
So, the Kenney-led UCP government in Alberta wants to hold a referendum on equalization. Here’s the proposed question: I want to bring two points to your attention here. First, is…
Legal Tweet of the Day: June 8, 2021
#LegalTweetOfTheDay: Damning report finds ‘persistent and unyielding’ anti-Black racism in Ontario’s public service via CBC Read more: http://bit.ly/WiseLawLegalTweet06082021 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Lauren Pullen reports on two outbreaks of the Delta variant of COVID-19 within a Calgary hospital. Emily Mertz reports on a push…
Even in 1792 They Knew Understood His Type
The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies…
Talking Ontario’s Re-Opening Plan with Andrew Pinsent
Yesterday I joined Andrew Pinsent on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Lindsay Maskell & Kate Harrison for “Political Heat” panel. We talked about Ontario’s Re-Opening Plan, the move to re-open…