Progressive punishment is not enough to regulate behaviour when an offender has extraordinary wealth. To a corporation like Teck Resources Ltd. — market capitalization $29 billion — inconsequential fines are…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Katrina vanden Heuvel writes that the same plutocrats who have chosen to value the lives of most of humanity at nil are pouring…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Corrections defends Bernardo’s privacy, as it faces calls to detail transfer reason #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/4j9j8vns – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
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Where you live matters in almost every way imaginable, and there’s now more evidence that your location impacts your mental health. We now know that what has been colloquially known…
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of June 12, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: Prince Harry a no-show at court hearing in suit against tabloid publisher…
We’ve got marches and rallies surfacing, sometimes right outside of schools, with people chanting, “Leave the kids alone” in order to put an end to “gender ideology.” What does this…
We won’t have Ontario premier Doug Ford to kick around much this summer. He will be up polluting the air in Muskoka on his gas-guzzling water craft. Before he fled…
Google and Facebook are stealing money, but they’re not taking it from newspapers—they have been stealing from their own customers. Photo from Flickr. Are Google and Facebook stealing? It seems…
Welcome to “Life in a Conservative Province” also known as “they say the wackiest things.” “They” being conservative premiers who say idiotic things when asked: how do you reconcile your…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The Canadian Press reports that the Ford PCs’ COVID negligence includes shutting down a rapid test program still distributing hundreds of thousands…
I don't hate him. I don't hate anyone. I believe any one of a number of scandals – blackface, obstruction of justice, groping a woman, wiring contracts for family members…
David Johnston is gone. He was last week’s sacrificial lamb. Intergovernmental Affairs leader Dominic Leblanc has suggested that the opposition parties construct their own solution to the problem. Susan Delacourt…
There’s tons of news about all the smoke – so much about the smoke. But I’m finding very little information about the actual fires. We know that firefighters are coming…
When you have a political party of climate change deniers, what can you say about climate change? I once asked a very conservative lady why she wanted to leave the…
They’re kind of hard to see, but here’s Mama Goose and four babies who are resting after eating what seemed to be a delicious breakfast. Summer is here!
So Canada’s foreign interference rapporteur David Johnston has left the building: Shorter David Johnston: https://t.co/1Kl7H9fed8 — Dale Smith (@journo_dale) June 9, 2023 Dale Smith has an excellent column Exit David…
The plan was just another example of Pierre Poilievre's feverish compulsion to destroy Justin Trudeau and Canada.Not necessarily in that order.He announced that he was going to personally filibuster Parliament…
The plan was just another example of Pierre Poilievre's feverish compulsion to destroy Justin Trudeau and Canada.Not necessarily in that order.He announced that he was going to personally filibuster Parliament…
