Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – David Slater and Charles Rusnell write about the unconscionable lack of any meaningful discussion of the climate breakdown in Alberta’s provincial election even…
May 2023
Legal Tweet of the Day: May 19, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Northern Ontario First Nation gathers in Toronto to launch land theft case #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://bit.ly/3pKUeI3 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Temperamentally Incapable
Readers of this space know that I have no patience for Pierre Poilievre. I took a break recently, thinking that I had obsessed too much about the man, and that…
Who prints this stuff?
@PatricianGrill's Terry and Chris react to the opinions of some jerk named Kinsella in @TheTorontoSun! pic.twitter.com/sC4uBWwEAp — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 19, 2023
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from June 24, 2012
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from June 24, 2012 via Wise Law Blog: Ontario Employment Law: Contractual Entitlement to Notice and the Question of Mitigation https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2012/06/ontario-employment-law-contractual.html – Garry J. Wise,…
ME/CFS as a Guide to Long Covid
ME stands for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, a chronic neurological disease affecting the nervous and immune systems of about 17 million people worldwide. It’s also known as CFS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, for…
Review 3: Godzilla Raids Again – 1955
The unexpected success of the original Gojira film led Toho to find a quick and cheap way to cash in on the popularity. And within six months, they released the…
A Brown Stain in Brampton.
Did we hear rumblings from Hazel’s grave the other day? I am sure we can have every confidence in current Mississauga mayor, Bonnie Crombie that everything will work out all…
Alberta premier’s worst moment in last night’s leaders’ debate happened before the opening bell rang
The worst moment in yesterday’s televised leader’s debate for Alberta Premier Danielle Smith came well before the hourlong event’s opening bell rang at 6 p.m. Premier Smith during the debate…
The debate debate: who won, who lost, who cares.
Televised debates can be pivotal in an election. In 1960, in the first U.S. presidential debate on TV, John F. Kennedy looked cool and composed, while Richard Nixon looked nervous…
Of Campaigns, Bigotry, and Dog Whistles
So, with UCP leader Danielle Smith regularly playing dodge-em with her own statements in the past, it shouldn’t come as any big surprise that something would come bubbling to the…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Omar Mosleh discusses the growing damage being caused by repeated wildfires in Canada, while David Wallace-Wells writes that there’s no escape from…
Legal Tweet of the Day: May 18, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario to take steps to break up Peel Region #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://bit.ly/3OkHSR8 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
Enforcing Ignorance
In the United States, there is a movement — and it’s gaining momentum — to make students ignorant. Exhibit A is the state of Florida. Jennifer Rubin writes: Florida Gov.…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Do children inherit parent’s debt?
Most debt doesn’t transfer from a parent’s estate to a child. If the deceased did not have enough assets to pay off the debts, the creditors may require a sale…
Inciting anti-Chinese hatred
Photo courtesy China Photos/Getty Images The Trudeau government has moved to expel Chinese diplomat Zhao Wei on the grounds that he has been involved in targeting members of Conservative MP…
Sacrificed on the Language Cross.
Don’t you love these hypocrites in Quebec who will sacrifice the future of the province’s youth on the cross of linguistic purity? Take Pierre Karl Péladeau, the denizen of Quebecor…
Today’s News and Views: from Poilievre to Penguins
First, this is such a juvenile response from Poilievre, isn’t it: This is how important foreign interference is to Pierre Poilievre. pic.twitter.com/XBfCgOe8Gm — Raoul Duke’s Salt Shaker (@RodKahx) May 17,…
Two new polls Wednesday say UCP and NDP are close to ‘statistical dead heat,’ province-wide and in Calgary
If the latest Alberta voter intention polls are right – and who would be bold enough to predict that? – Canada’s richest province could soon end up in an excruciating…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jakub Hlavka and Adam Rose examine the $14 trillion just in direct economic costs of COVID-19 in the U.S. – making clear how…