What The World Needs Most
Great discussion, as always, and a great song. (See the link below, to a podcast interview by one of my top three sources.) Now, maybe a song about sisu, the…
August 2024
Legal News Post of the Day: August 14, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Justice Merchan Denies Trump’s Recusal Bid, Rebuking Him for Claiming Harris Ties #law #legal #legalnews via @nytimes https://t.co/PifjaAaH4r - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
BC United (formerly B.C. Liberals)
Kevin Falcon returned to politics from his job with one of BC's largest real estate developers. Falcon was a guy who lied about BC Rail being bankrupt and therefore a…
Wise Law’s Family #LawFact of the Day: Net Family Property in Ontario
Ontario’s Family Law Act (FLA) governs the equalization and division of property between spouses upon marital separation.It applies only to spouses who are legally married.A spouse may be entitled to…
A Time for Political Optimism at Last
After many dreary months of the relentless, pounding negativity, insults, accusations, lies, deflections, racism, and rage-farming of a convicted felon, tax cheat, and serial liar Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, we…
The Death of Canadian Medicare
Nearly a fifth of New Brunswick residents don’t have access to a family doctor. Over 400 family doctors in Quebec have left the public healthcare system altogether, and are free…
Raj Sherman is back again, this time as Danielle Smith’s man at the head of the Health Quality Council of Alberta
As if to reinforce his role as the proverbial bad penny of Alberta politics, Raj Sherman has turned up again – this time as Premier Danielle Smith’s man at the…
Sweeping up the Heart: Molly
Our Molly died today. She was diagnosed with gastric lymphoma cancer in May, and we knew from the beginning that it was incurable. We hoped we could at least have…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Syris Valentine writes about our severe and chronic environmental overshoot in using far more resources than the Earth can replenish. Clayton Page Aldern…
Uniting The People
I wish “the West” had a powerful anti-aurhoritarian left, but currently we do not. Am I the only one left of the real left? Surely not. But things are shifting…
In Kitsilano, the Case of the Beloved and Broken Pool
‘The City of Vancouver will never see this fall to ruin,’ a former park board chair said. But will it?Jen St. Denis The TyeeJen St. Denis is a reporter with…
In Kitsilano, the Case of the Beloved and Broken Pool
‘The City of Vancouver will never see this fall to ruin,’ a former park board chair said. But will it?Jen St. Denis The TyeeJen St. Denis is a reporter with…
Transgender Employees and Human Rights in the Workplace
BY SATYMA MONGIA, ASSOCIATE LAWYER“All children and youth in Canada have the right to live and to learn free from discrimination related to their sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity…
Legal News Post of the Day: August 13, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Here's how the U.S. trial of a Canadian linked to the Pearson gold heist could play out #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/sy2N5f1XMz - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit…
Wise Law’s Employment #LawFact of the Day: Returning to Work from Maternity or Parental Leave
Can an employer fire an employee whose pregnancy is causing medical complications that affect her ability to perform her usual workplace duties?Employers have a duty to accommodate in those circumstances…
Colonialism, capitalism, and Canada, 1500-2025: How the past is before us
“The Surrender of Poundmaker to Major-General Middleton at Battleford, Saskatchewan, on May 26, 1885.” Painting by Robert William Rutherford. Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-274-2. ...
‘Mom-and-pop’ landlords are risking everything—including the economy
Victorian houses in Toronto. Photo by young shanahan/Flickr. Ari bought the house next door back in the spring. It’s his first home and he is very excited. So excited that…
Today’s News: Commentary on Poilievre v. journalists, and on Harris v. Trump (plus dissing Poilievre’s wardrobe)
Starting with Poilievre v. journalists:David Moscrop Why Pierre Poilievre disowns the extremists he flirts with ...Poilievre, who supported the Convoy that descended on and occupied Ottawa in 2022, keeps showing…
Where’s Naheed? Alberta’s New Democrats need to know!
So where’s Naheed? Alberta’s New Democrats need to know! Since June 22, when Naheed Nenshi posted his crushing 86-per-cent victory on the first ballot in the race to replace former…