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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
#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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus is the classic tale of what happens to a man who sells his soul to the devil. It’s a classic because it keeps being replayed throughout…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Tonight’s tonic: “Shine a brighter light on contract government – Ottawa’s becoming addicted to consulting firms. Other countries have rung the alarm. It’s time for the same to happen here.”…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jessica Wildfire discusses how the U.S. and Canada are following the UK’s healthcare collapse due to a combination of public health negligence and…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Feds want Sunwing, Via Rail executives to answer for holiday travel chaos #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CityNewsTO https://bit.ly/3IkjIDu – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Like I’ve said for months: Anyone who is (a) sane (b) of voting age (c) in Canada doesn’t like either Trudeau or Poilievre. The federal choices suck. Worst ever. From…
