7th Inning Stretch at the Blue Jays Game in 2023
On May 20, 2023, Blue Jays fans sing OK Blue Jays and Take Me Out to the Ball Game during the seventh inning stretch at Rogers Centre in Toronto.
May 2023
Winners and losers in the Alberta election.
So, what have we learned after the ugliest, closest election campaign in Alberta history? As always, there are winners and losers outside of the polling stations. Here are a few……
How Quebec Will Defeat AirBnB
The global housing crisis has numerous causes, and one of them is AirBnB. Of course there are competitors to the short term rental company but the impact of their presence…
Legal Tweet of the Day: May 30, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Landlord sentenced to 20 years for letting drug lab set up in basement of his Pickering rental home #law #legal #lawtwitter via @TorontoStar https://tinyurl.com/444upszf – Garry J. Wise, Toronto…
Pandemic Historic Ties to Fascism
I’m very concerned with the public largely ignoring Covid despite a growing shift to get kids to replace workers who are lost to Covid deaths or disability after convincing us…
In yesterday walks tomorrow
On the morning after, Alberta is as divided in 2023 as America was in 2016. It'll end similarly. #ableg #cdnpoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 30, 2023
Unbowed behind bars: Read Putin critic Ilya Yashin’s letter from a Moscow prison
Link to Globe and Mail Story ILYA YASHIN Ilya Yashin, a key figure in more than a decade of protests against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule, was sentenced in December…
While thousands of Venezuelans died, Chrystia Freeland called for sanctions with ‘more bite’
A demonstrator holds a sign with a message that reads in Spanish: “Trump unblock Venezuela” in Caracas, August 7, 2019. Photo courtesy AP. Sanctions have become the most common weapon…
The first casualty of war is critical thinking
Composer Yuri Kerpatenko. Photo courtesy the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and Information Policy/Facebook. We often hear that truth is the first casualty of war. Yet the truth cannot be killed.…
Follow Polls at Your Peril.
Reading political polls is a trap but we all do it. Polls are never that accurate. Polls can mislead us. Polls are always old news. At their best, they report…
Hot take: If you were hoping for sanity in Alberta after yesterday’s election, you can forget about it
Those praying for a degree of sanity to prevail after yesterday’s Alberta provincial election were bound to be disappointed by the apparent result last night. NDP Leader Rachel Notley concedes…
Dear Health Authority Without The Infection Control
To follow up my Dear Premier letter, Dear Saskatchewan Health Authority: Your capable employees had booked me for a routine appointment at a hospital in Regina. To get to my…
what i’m reading: madame restell (nonfiction version)
In March, I wrote about My Notorious Life, historical fiction by Kate Manning, based on the life of a woman known as Madame Restell. I loved the book. Then, by…
Legal Tweet of the Day: May 29, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Here’s What Happens When Your Lawyer Uses ChatGPT #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://tinyurl.com/yw8dybps – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
Saturday Photo (a little late): Bridle Veil…
The glory continues. This week it is Bridle Veil that is featured.
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of May 29, 2023
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Kids Today!
A letter has been circulating and in the news complaining about kids today. Things have changed in the last few years, but I don’t think it’s as dramatic a shift…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of May 29, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 29, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: ‘Game changer’: Ontario engineers remove Canadian work experience requirement for immigrants Why…
Indoor Plants That Eliminate Carcinogenics
Plants are one of the most obvious good things that there can be, and certain plants are excellent at cleaning specific chemicals out of the air. We all know that…
Bonnie Blunders.
You hate to see a promising politician do a pratfall on the way out of the starting gate. Mississauga mayor Bonnie Crombie broke all the rules she could have learned…