Florida’s balloon ban will protect sea turtles, birds and other marine life
Back in September 2017, I brought a motion to the Vancouver Park Board to ban balloons in our parks. This was because of the terrible toll they take on wildlife.…
June 2024
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Matt Stoller writes about the "economic termites" whose barely-noticed individual bites into personal finances are adding up to a fundamentally unsound economic structure. Imogen…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Matt Stoller writes about the "economic termites" whose barely-noticed individual bites into personal finances are adding up to a fundamentally unsound economic structure. Imogen…
First Nations and allies resist proposed radioactive waste repository
Activists with Environment North protest against the burial of highly radioactive nuclear fuel waste in the heart of northwestern Ontario. Photo supplied by the authors. On April...
Legal News Post of the Day: June 28, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Man charged after allegedly swinging sword on TTC bus, assaulting strangers #law #legal #legalnews via @CTVNews https://bit.ly/3XDTkMw - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Legal News Post of the Day: June 28, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Man charged after allegedly swinging sword on TTC bus, assaulting strangers #law #legal #legalnews via @CTVNews https://bit.ly/3XDTkMw - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Building Institutions: An Update on the State of Academic Research on Monarchy
In the decade since my first post on this topic there has been an explosion in interest regarding whether having a monarchy has tangible effects on a country's development. As…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from May 21, 2006
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from May 21, 2006 via Wise Law Blog: Great-Grandma's New Tattoo and Powers of Attorney for Care http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2006/05/great-grandmas-new-tattoo-and-powers.html - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from May 21, 2006
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from May 21, 2006 via Wise Law Blog: Great-Grandma's New Tattoo and Powers of Attorney for Care http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2006/05/great-grandmas-new-tattoo-and-powers.html - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our…
greetings from talent, oregon (days 2 and 3)
After breakfast at Joshua's, we hit the road, taking 101 South, which winds through the Olympic peninsula, following waterways -- rivers, canals, sounds, bays -- through tiny remote hamlets. Quilcene,…
greetings from talent, oregon (days 2 and 3)
After breakfast at Joshua's, we hit the road, taking 101 South, which winds through the Olympic peninsula, following waterways -- rivers, canals, sounds, bays -- through tiny remote hamlets. Quilcene,…
Democrat Debate Disaster Disgrace
A President for the ages: “Making sure that we’re able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I’ve been able to do with the uhh the COVID, excuse…
It was bad. For Joe.
Shit. I supported Barack Obama. I worked for Hillary Clinton in three different states, including at her Brooklyn headquarters. I worked the phones for Joe Biden in 2020. If there…
Oil and gas industry is a rogue entity making its own rules
If the public interest is ever to be served, the power and influence of lobbyists must be reduced to near-zero and the ability to slip easily between the regulators and…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Crawford Kilian discusses how avoidable harms to people's health and well-being are inflicted on us as "costs of doing business". Patrick Miner et…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Crawford Kilian discusses how avoidable harms to people's health and well-being are inflicted on us as "costs of doing business". Patrick Miner et…
Legal News Post of the Day: June 27, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Nunavut judge sentences Toronto woman to three years in prison in a case of Inuit identity fraud #law #legal #LegalNews via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/4s4348hn - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit…
Legal News Post of the Day: June 27, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Nunavut judge sentences Toronto woman to three years in prison in a case of Inuit identity fraud #law #legal #LegalNews via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/4s4348hn - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit…
New Resources for Working Caregivers and Their Employers!
Did you know that more than 3.5 million workers in Canada are also family caregivers? And over half of those are women who provide more than 20 hours per week…
New Resources for Working Caregivers and Their Employers!
Did you know that more than 3.5 million workers in Canada are also family caregivers? And over half of those are women who provide more than 20 hours per week…