Unabated Fury
If the people of Hamilton are any indication, the citizen fury against Doug Ford’s brazen and corrupt theft of Greenbelt lands continues unabated. In a meeting ostensibly called to get…
2023
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rebecca Leber highlights how drilling in the Arctic and other high-cost fossil fuel extraction plans are based on a sociopathic bet against any…
Aliens at the Bruce
“Did you see that? Tell me you saw that!” Our first instinct was to question our eyes. We were stargazing near the tip of the… The post Aliens at the…
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 7, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Mexico’s Supreme Court Decriminalizes Abortion Nationwide – The New York Times #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://tinyurl.com/28kd4vva – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 8, 2023
#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 Lanterns for Peace 2023
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…
maya’xala: things i heard in the library, an occasional series # 40
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
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…
Should Schools have A/C?
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 ‘Truthiness’ of All.
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,…
Why Climate of Joy?
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…
My latest: watch LeBlanc
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.…
Protect the unborn, not the already born
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…
Thursday Morning Links
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.…
What Exactly Is A “Broad Coalition Of Conservatives”?
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…
The conservative attack on gay life
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…
What are the legal rights of adopted children when a parent – biological or adoptive – passes away?
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…
We’ve Been Here Before
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…