Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – David Wallace-Wells examines a few of the false narratives which are limiting our response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Sarah Wulf Hanson and…
January 2023
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 6, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: N.B. convoy donor fighting motion to name him in lawsuit #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/3Zg8jdW – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Chaos In The House
As much as I might like to, I find it hard to completely ignore the dysfunction that defines American society in general and, currently, in particular, the House of Representatives.…
Riding On The Back Of The Tiger
These days, our politics are driven by anger. Konrad Yakabuski writes: Former federal Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole spoke for many Canadians distressed at the increasing nastiness of our political…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from May 1, 2005
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from May 1, 2005 via Wise Law Blog: Canada’s new Spousal Support Guideline Proposal http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2005/05/canadas-new-spousal-support-guideline.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
Locals pay the price of super gentrification in Mexico City
La Roma Norte, Ciudad de México. Photo by Natch Jarero/Flickr. The accelerated gentrification of two of Mexico City’s neighbourhoods, La Condesa and La Roma Norte, has caused tensions and a…
Taxing Excess Profit?
It really is disgusting. As inflation is eating away at your paycheque, the boss of your company could be going home with more than 200 times the salary of the…
We Need to Talk about Kraken (XBB.1.5)
I watched this livestream tonight: an interview and Q&A with Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding (EFD), an U.S. epidemiologist who broke the news that the CDC knew XBB.1.5. was a variant of…
Juxtapose: Burgeoning CEO pay and the sprawling woke conspiracy the National Post thinks we should worry about
On Tuesday, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives reminded us that it takes the country’s 100 highest-paid corporate CEOs less than an hour to make $58,800 – the average Canadian…
So Jordan Peterson Is Being Disciplined?
Jordan Peterson is running about making a big fuss because his social media antics have garnered the attention of the College of Psychologists of Ontario (CPO). "I won't comply!", he…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 5, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: CIBC agrees to settle overtime class-action lawsuit, will pay $153 million #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CityNewsTO https://bit.ly/3GbvXQ4 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk examines what we know about – and what we should be doing in response to – the Kraken COVID-19 variant…
This Heat Pump Uses Sound
Normal heat pumps make use of chemicals to modulate temperatures, in the future they may all use sound. A new French startup has announced they will sell a residential heat…
a reading plan for 2023
This year’s reading plan is more open-ended — designed to give me focus but not overwhelm. I’ve created what most people seem to call a reading challenge, but that term…
The High Cost Of Serving Developers
Doug Ford has a lot to be happy about these days. His debt to developers is being rapidly repaid via his Bill 23, which will not only remove key parts…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: If a family member has put money into an investment in your name and you have co-signed on changes to the investment, does the investment belong to you?
The answer will very often depend on what you and your family member intended. Did they put the investments in your name with the expectation that you would hold it…
Dismantling the cult of Churchill
Winston Churchill. Illustration by Lyn Ott (1942). Image from Wikimedia Commons. Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes Tariq Ali Verso, 2022 When I was about 10 years old, my first…
Champagne’s Clarion Call.
It is Canada’s last hope for a break in cell phone pricing. We have been betrayed by the Quislings in the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) and the Competition Tribunal…
Today’s News: Update on Covid
I haven’t posted much about the Covid news lately, but I have been gathering together some of the articles and tweets that seem to summarize the most helpful advice right…