Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of September 5, 2023
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of September 5, 2023
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of September 5, 2023 from Wise Law on Twitter: Trump Trial Set for March 4 in Federal Election Case Art generated…
Rearranging The Deck Chairs On The Titanic
The title of this post is likely known to most. It means taking actions that will do nothing to avert disaster. And that is precisely what Doug Ford is doing…
We’re Mutant Enablers
A friend said, “I watch the numbers. I’ll start to mask again when cases get high. People who are sick should wear a mask.” And that, my friends, is why…
The Importance of Being Liberal.
Oscar Wilde published The Importance of Being Earnest in 1895. It was a farce for its time. The importance of being a liberal is something of a farce for our…
We’re closed … but not for long (and we hope you had a happy Labour Day)
Labour Day – the traditional end of the Canadian summer and supposedly the moment when we all get seriously back to work, or school, or whatever – has come and…
Nate has my heart, but Bonnie has my brain and (more than likely) my first preference vote in the Ontario Liberal leadership race
(From left to right) OLP leadership candidates Bonnie Crombie, Nate Erskine-Smith, Yasir Naqvi, Dr. Adil Shamji, and Ted Hsu As many know, I’ve been an activist with the Ontario Liberal…
Stores … progress … trees
It is beginning to look like it’s going to be easier – and a bit more straightforward – to have one store at Society6. It will feature basically prints and…
What have unions done for us? What could they do?
Photo courtesy United Steelworkers/Flickr Unions have given us the weekend. They have fought for the eight-hour day. They have agitated for improved health and safety laws. They have eradicated child…
Only A Good Start
What can be said about the overdue resignation of Housing Minister Steve Clark, other than that it is only a good start? His departure from cabinet (which I am sure…
Those Who Seek Scapegoats
Canada has a housing crisis. And some are blaming immigrants. Susan Delacourt writes: If politicians in this country are going to be seized with housing in the coming months —…
Strike While the Fire’s Hot
Happy Labour Day! I’m sitting at a comfortable distance from Ontario school contract negotiations this time out, and I don’t know all the ins and outs of the various union…
BC Hydro’s credibility gap
When BC Hydro said that growing demand required asset additions worth billions of dollars and contractual commitments of $50+ billion owed to independent power producers, should we have believed what…
On a Bicycle Built for Two.
Okay Toronto, how are you and your new mayor doing? Is she getting all those Torontonians out of their cars and onto bicycles? Has she had Dundas Street renamed? Is…
The Vulnerable will Fall by the Wayside
Fauci’s line to the BBC, “The vulnerable will fall by the wayside,” said while projecting that we’re unlikely to have another tsunami of cases of death as happened with Delta…
Say ‘No’ to Singh.
Federal new democratic party leader Jagmeet Singh wants the liberal government to come up with another one-time benefit payment of $500 for low-income families. This is the same as the…
Oversight? No! Undersight? Yes!
Lew Edwardson wrote the following as a comment on the post Lack of transparency at BC Hydro may conceal massive fraud. It deserves to be repeated in this separate post.…