real heroes for real reasons: female athletes moving the world forward
These days I can’t blog about events or issues that are meaningful to me until they’re old news — which of course in today’s world can mean only days or…
September 2023
Saturday Photo: More Housing…
And then there’s this highrise model.
Metroland bankruptcy smells to high heaven
The chain of 70 Ontario community newspapers and a half-dozen dailies, including the historic Hamilton Spectator, filed last week for court protection from its creditors. File photo by John Rennison/Hamilton…
Staying Healthy Takes Work
If social media is any barometer of this, anti-mask abuse appears to be skyrocketing. Fixed it for ya! There are tons of comments by the Covid cautious about about being…
Criticizing Bonnie Crombie.
Having missed the liberal leadership debate at the old Ryerson campus last week, it seemed, according to the news articles, I did not miss much. The mayor of Mississauga is…
On Helping Professions
Should mental health professionals be more concerned about the spread of a brain-invasive virus that affects mental health by doing a number on the brain?? Amanda Hu wrote “I feel…
To Live in Interesting Times.
Returning home from a visit to Toronto this past week was like returning to a peaceful oasis. Not that Barrie does not have more than its share of construction going…
Farewell to twitter, I guess
Apparently Musk is going to try to start charging for his platform. He simply doesn’t understand Twitter at all – he never did. Its like a pulp and paper company…
What polarization?
Do conservatives like democracy? That may seem like an unfair question. And for many conservatives it may be. Bur it seems there are many who don’t, and they are very…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Stephanie Soucheray discusses new research showing how people with existing health problems are at substantially higher risk of long COVID. And Helen Floersh…
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 22, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: ‘It was a mistake:’ Ford reversing Ontario government’s decision to open Greenbelt #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/s9cprz42 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Are We Supposed To Be Grateful?
Make no mistake about it: I am absolutely delighted that the Ford cabal has, albeit quite belatedly, seen the light and is restoring the pilfered Greenbelt lands. But, like puppies…
Clouds In The Future
Politics isn’t just about elections. It’s also about what happens between elections. Doug Ford made that abundantly clear yesterday when he reversed his decision to build houses on Ontario’s Greenbelt.…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from April 12, 2012
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from April 12, 2012 via Wise Law Blog: Seven Years of Wise Law Blog https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2012/04/seven-years-of-wise-law-blog.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
Nagorno-Karabakh and the failure of Armenia’s ‘colour revolution’
A billboard in Yerevan featuring the flags of Armenia and the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, October 7, 2020. Photo by Garik Avagyan/Wikimedia Commons. Thursday was Armenia’s independence day. This year, however,…
How Canada’s bombing of Libya contributed to the flooding disaster
On September 6, the Libyan poet Mustafa al-Trabelsi attended a meeting at the House of Culture in Derna. The meeting was held to discuss the risks that a flood would…
Children Risk More Illnesses after Covid
What every pediatrician in the world needs to read – from tern: Correct me if I’m wrong, but this is a really bad thing, isn’t it? I wonder what the…