#LegalTweetoftheDay: Why you can’t get birth control at every pharmacy in Canada #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/2p8n49jj – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
There are many reasons that can be adduced for the declining health of democracy: widespread disaffection from the political process; pervasive anger among citizens; the disproportionate influence of social media;…
What is an Executor? An Executor is the person who’s the legal representative of your Estate. After you die, your Executor is responsible for taking all of the assets and…
Private Members’ Business offers the occasional opportunity for a backbench to collectively disagree with their leadership. One of the sharpest examples of this in my four years was Bill S-201,…
Glacier Media’s climate and environmental reporter Stefan Labbé has a disturbing report about heavy metals and other pollutants in waters moving from Canadian coal mines to the USA. The item…
A guest essay in the NY Times makes some excellent points about the way we’re framing mental health issues in kids. Psychologist Darby Saxbe discusses the well-intentioned but problematic way…
Pierre Poilievre might not be the smartest politician in Ottawa. He stumbles around without his glasses, probably walks into walls and tells his foolish followers to “Axe the Tax.” What…
What would the world have been, had he not been killed? What would have been different? What would have stayed the same? Sixty years.
Using the excuse of American Thanksgiving, I just need to post the funniest line ever said on television: and here’s the back-story:
Warming cats.
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Archie Mitchell and Adam Forrest report on the revelation from the UK’s COVID inquiry that now-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was entirely eager…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sits down for a one-on-one interview with Village Media Editor Michael Friscolanti in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Photo courtesy Timmins Today. It’s not often that the…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: OpenAI Board Backs Decision to Oust Sam Altman as C.E.O. #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://tinyurl.com/ychcea7x – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
It’s a deadly virus, one that has killed for millennia. But the virus has mutated. It’s not actually a coronavirus. It’s anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism – hatred of Jews – is one…
Anna Lippman at a November 4 rally in downtown Toronto. Photo by Fatin Ishraq Chowdhury. As those of us in Toronto watch the devastation occurring in Gaza, where Israel’s bombing…
Thousands protest in downtown Toronto in solidarity with Palestinians, November 18, 2023. Photo by Fadi Salib. More than 400 signatories have endorsed this letter, among whom are respected international law,…
Can an employer lawfully terminate an exceptional employee who has had consistently good performance reviews? Under Ontario law, an employer may terminate any employee without cause, so long as the…
After October 7, the political party which advocates for new Canadians “leaving their hatreds behind where they came from” is going to win a massive victory. I’m hearing it everywhere.
Protesters gather outside a downtown Toronto intake centre to support refugees forced to sleep on the streets due to a lack of resources within the city’s shelter system. Photo courtesy…
A New York Times piece discusses, again, learning loss from the lockdowns of 2020, but a new study shows the lockdowns actually improved some skills. The Editorial Board of the…
