Making It Work
It never ceases to amaze me how some big things just happen, surprising us all and catching everyone off guard. It seems to come when we least expect it or…
March 2022
Instead of Pesticides, Use Plants
This is the year nobody should use pesticides, if you’re on the fence about using pesticides I’ll remind you that they do more harm than good. They negatively impact human…
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire.
The last conservative to tell the truth in Ontario was premier Bill Davis and it caused his party to lose power in the provincial election in 1985. In the 21st…
Would ‘Wetworks’ Work?
There seemed to be a common message in readers’ comments on my story last week on Russian president Vladimir Putin’s adventures in Ukraine. I never think of my readers as…
Today’s News: Patience
All in all, today I am seeing less panic and more patience as international affairs experts are able to develop a longer-term analysis of what Putin’s War will mean for…
A Liberal-NDP confidence and supply deal takes shape? If so, brace yourself for a spectacular national Conservative tantrum!
If the deal the federal Liberals and New Democrats seem to have cooked up to keep the Trudeau Government in power until 2025 in return for national pharmacare and dental…
For Ukraine: please buy this painting
FOR UKRAINE – New one, inspired by the colors of their flag, and for sale – all proceeds going to the Red Cross Ukrainian fund. Bid here, or DM me…
Protected: The Blue Finger of Fate
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Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Umair Haque discusses how the corporate-driven surrender to COVID – like so many of the choices which value profit over well-being – reflects…
Meanwhile, in Existential News
With people riveted to the outrage in Ukraine or the Covid rollercoaster or the pump price of gasoline, the existential threat facing humanity has become an orphan. It isn’t that…
Legal Tweet of the Day: March 21, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario has dropped most mask mandates. Here’s what you need to know #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://bit.ly/3qJYVQj – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Corporate Canada’s regime of dispossession
Nickel processing plant for the Fenix mine in Guatemala, owned by Hudbay Minerals. The company faced charges in an Ontario court related to the alleged gang rape of 11 Mayan…
Lessons from two years of COVID-19
We – and by we, I mean the entire world – have just marked two full years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. Time flies when you’re living in fear…
Defeating MAGA
These are dangerous times in the United States. Jennifer Rubin writes: The GOP has unabashedly fanned violence, propagated a parallel universe of lies and conspiracy theories and sought to subvert…
Not Dead Yet!
This pandemic feels like living in a horror movie that just keeps going on and on. We think the killer is dead, but then they come back for yet another…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of March 21, 2022
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of March 21, 2022
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of March 21, 2022 from Wise Law on Twitter: Ontario Court of Appeal Upholds 26 Month Notice Period Toronto lawyer Jeremy…
Did the Fat Lady Sing?
The on-going comic opera in Alberta is running pell-mell towards the finale. With Jason Kenney’s arch enemy, Brian Jean, now back in the united conservative caucus, the provincial party meeting…
Today’s News: Slava Ukraini for Mariupol
In this photo, a mother at the Lviv train station embraces her son after he escaped Mariupol. (Photo by AP Bernat Armangue) The news today from Mariupol is terrible —…