#LegalTweetoftheDay: Federal judge restores part of Georgia’s law that had banned gender-affirming care for trans youth #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN https://tinyurl.com/2a2fk2ma – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
Winnipeg, August 9, 2023 — Winnipeggers held a Lanterns for Peace Ceremony to mark the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These ceremonies are conducted each…
In my ongoing efforts to make the Port Hardy Library a safer workplace, and a more comfortable space for customers, I was invited to a elders’ luncheon at the Gwa’sala-‘Nakwaxda’xw…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from August 31, 2012 via Wise Law Blog: Ontario Employment Law: Mitigating Damages By Staying With The Same Employer http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2012/08/ontario-employment-law-mitigating.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto…
Or do we need hot days to be considered “bad weather” days and just close the schools? And do we need to re-think how we do school – and civilization…
The word ‘Truthiness” has come into heavy play. “Truthiness” applies to the relative truth of what we learn from the Internet and other questionable sources for news. ‘Truthiness’ is truth,…
At the same time that there’s these extremes going on in the planetary level, we have new science that’s telling us that this physical world that we can see and…
Watch Dominic LeBlanc. Watch what he does. As everyone knows by now, reputable pollsters are saying that Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are as much as 14 points behind Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives.…
Some who favour right wing politics believe in protecting the unborn, but vehemently oppose protection of children already born. This is largely an American problem, where guns overtook car crashes…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Tess Finch Lee writes about the importance of doing everything we can to protect children (and indeed the general population) from COVID-19.…
This morning, on the news one of the headline stories was about the CPC policy convention, where they are going to debate a range of policies, and two of them…
Toronto Pride parade, 2006. Photo by Sue Maguire/Flickr. When the Canadian government updated its travel advisory to the United States, warning LGBTQ+ people that many American states have enacted laws…
Under Ontario law, legally adopted children are generally presumed to have the same rights as biological children for estate purposes. A testator still has the freedom to make gifts and…
The owners of Big Tech are the new Robber Barons. Linda McQuaig writes: Like the Railroad Barons of the late 19th century, today’s Big Tech giants strut around, acting like…
Two slightly different takes from lengthy threads on how the brain operates in such a way that makes it ignore Covid risks as it protects us from the trauma caused…
Wildfires are clearly a major problem for Canadians in 2023. Primary causes are known but solutions conflict with policies of governments that prefer to eliminate forest diversity and promote fossil…
It is not just who’s holier than thou in Alberta. It is who is further in commitment to the right-wing loonies. I was inclined to give up on my high…
I found both of these posts so shocking. The first one is a reminder about AIDS and how only within the last 20 years has our society learned to respect…
