Dear Maxine Bernier, Mark Bourrie and Andre Marin
This is your periodic reminder that we not only defeated Maxime Bernier and his lawyers Andre Marin and Mark Bourrie in court – but also this: Bernier was forced to…
2022
The world’s climate plan: make targets, miss targets, repeat, die
Millions of people have been affected by extraordinary weather events in 2022. The effects of climate change are compounding, but political leaders and industrialists use misinformation and outright lies to…
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 6, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: New CNE agreement needed ahead of next year’s event #law #legal #LawTwitter via @CityNewsTO https://bit.ly/3RHdpeM – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
No Place
Traditional conservatives no longer have a place in the world — because conservatives can no longer get along with each other. Glen Pearson writes: Ronald Brownstein, senior editor of The…
Another Urban Myth Busted
Road users always complain that other people are breaking the law, every group of road users accuess another of breaking the most traffic rules. Truckers think cars are the worst,…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of September 6, 2022
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Where Things Stand
Hello there everyone, it’s been a while…. Since March 25th to be precise, but yes, a while. I’ve taken some downtime from this space over the past few months, to…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of September 6, 2022
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of September 6, 2022 from Wise Law on Twitter: ‘I was made out to be a monster’: With her conviction for…
Today’s News: Continuing the story
The news is fast and furious today as the story about the mass stabbings at James Smith Cree Nation and the town of Weldon continues to be the most important…
Trudeau’s Choice.
It looks like the churn is working but that is hardly butter we are getting. There is a demand for change in Canada and it need not be change for…
NDP Leader Rachel Notley vows to reverse UCP policies that reduced worker overtime and the youth minimum wage
Opposition Leader Rachel Notley vowed yesterday to reverse two United Conservative Party policies that reduced overtime payments for many working Albertans and lowered minimum wages for young people if the…
COVID-19 — panic, then neglect and harm
BC Government’s COVID panic began in March 2020, but was turning to neglect in the following year. It can be argued that neglect shifted to overtly harmful management of the…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your Labour Day reading. – David Macdonald offers a reminder that any difficulty employers are having finding workers is a result of their failing to pay wages…
Despite protests, Ecuador’s Guillermo Lasso embraces Canadian mining at the expense of Indigenous peoples
Leonidas Iza Salazar, President of Ecuador’s Indigenous umbrella organization CONAIE, during nationwide protests in June 2022. Photo by Nico Kingman/Amazon Frontlines. This June, Indigenous-led protests erupted across Ecuador in rejection…
With The Passage Of Time
Thirty years ago, Brian Mulroney was looking at the worst defeat in political history. His chosen successor, Kim Campbell, had won just two seats in the House of Commons. Anthony…
Wish a Caregiver Happy Labour Day!
The feminist scholar Arlene Kaplan Daniels coined the phrase "invisible work" to describe the many tasks that women have traditionally performed in their families and communities. Picking apart our common…
Wish a Caregiver Happy Labour Day!
The feminist scholar Arlene Kaplan Daniels coined the phrase “invisible work” to describe the many tasks that women have traditionally performed in their families and communities. Picking apart our common…
On yelling at Chrystia Freeland
This still image from a video posted to social media shows Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland being verbally accosted as she visits Grande Prairie, Alberta, August 26, 2022. Irrespective of…
A terrible day in Saskatchewan
This morning we woke up to the alerts on our cell phones: Canadian police searched across Saskatchewan for two suspects believed to have stabbed to death 10 people in an…
The Matches of the Month.
September is promising to be the most exciting and maybe the most terrifying month for political liaisons Canadians have seen for a while. It was kicked off by the reported…