Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Crawford Kilian discusses what Canada’s long-term climate policy needs to look like as it becomes abundantly clear that relying primarily on consumer-based carbon…
2023
A decade after Euromaidan, Ukraine more fractured than ever
A protester during Euromaidan, December 9, 2013. Photo by Ivan Bandura/Wikimedia Commons. Of all the political events that have rocked Europe in recent years, it is probably fair to say…
Legal Tweet of the Day: November 22, 2023
#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…
The Warning Signs Are All There
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;…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What is an Executor?
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…
Bill S-201 and the breakdown of caucus unity
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,…
Inadequate penalties are licenses to pollute
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…
Disagnosing Mental Illness During Difficult Times
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…
The Theory of the Tax.
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…
Sixty years ago today
What would the world have been, had he not been killed? What would have been different? What would have stayed the same? Sixty years.
"As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"
Using the excuse of American Thanksgiving, I just need to post the funniest line ever said on television: and here’s the back-story:
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Warming cats.
Tuesday Afternoon Links
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…
Trudeau interview reveals uncomfortable truth
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…
Legal Tweet of the Day: November 21, 2023
#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…
My latest: digitizing the oldest hatred
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…
Protesting against Israel’s genocide of Palestinians isn’t antisemitic
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…
Israel-Palestine: Where is Canada?
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,…
Wise Law’s Employment LawFact of the day: Termination Without Cause
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…
Prediction
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.