My latest: the CBC’s “eyes and ears”
Couldn’t CBC have shown some respect, even on Oct. 7? More than 1,200 men, women, children and babies slaughtered by Hamas and Gazans in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023: On…
October 2024
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Darius Snieckus reports on a new International Institute for Sustainable Development study finding that Canada is still spending three times as much subsidizing fossil…
Legal News Post of the Day: October 9, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Scouts Canada 'shabbily' sidelined veteran volunteer, judge finds #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/dW4XulEJW0 - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our we...
More On The Therme Sweetheart Deal
The following video is the NDP's Chris Glover talking about how the deal Doug Ford has struck with Therme Spa is a bad one for taxpayers. Just before watching it,…
Wise Law’s Family #LawFact of the Day: Separating from your Spouse in Ontario
Ontario Family Law recognizes separation of spouses who intend to live separate and apart even if they don't immediately live in separate residences.Many couples live separate and apart “under one…
DeAdder Fired and the Weird Week
Yesterday afternoon, Michael DeAdder announced that he’d been fired by the Postmedia-owned Halifax Chronicle Herald, where he has been the editorial cartoonist for more than three decades, and for which…
Now there’s something you don’t see every day!
Some odds and sods and bizarre news: Oh, yeah -- I forgot So today was the day everyone who had been Covid vaccinated was supposed to die.Everyone ok?— RS Archer…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Clingy cat.
Joe Fafard’s NFB film from 1973
I Don’t Have to Work that Big, Michael McKennirey, provided by the National Film Board of Canada. Lots of Regina views toward the end of the film, including some art…
“Imperialism as a whole is the enemy of humanity, not particular countries”: Reading Michael Karadjis on the Middle East [ThreeWayFight]
by Matthew N. Lyons The last time Israel launched a ground invasion of Lebanon, in 2006, I argued on Three Way Fight (here, here, and here) that US leftists should…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Elizabeth Kolbert discusses the immense damage and disruption which we can anticipate if Greenland's massive ice sheet melts due to global warming, while…
Legal News Post of the Day: October 8, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Supreme Court Turns Down Biden’s Appeal in Texas Abortion Case #law #legal #legalnews via @nytimes https://t.co/e7OFSa6wJM - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Worth Repeating
In my previous post, I wrote about the Ford follies involving luxury spas on Toronto's waterfront. This letter to the editor about the premier's predilection for favouring private interests at…
The Giller Prize and the ‘Indigo 11’
Writers have joined forces with visual artists, filmmakers, and cultural workers under the banner of No Arms in the Arts, a campaign demanding that all cultural institutions receiving funding from…
Wise Law’s Employment #LawFact of the Day: Did you sign a non-competition agreement?
If your employment agreement prohibits you from competing with your employer or soliciting its customers after you leave, those restrictions may not be enforceable.Non-competition agreements are generally unenforceable against Ontario…
Reports of beheaded Israeli babies were bound to be propaganda
Anyone who has studied the history of propaganda must have rolled their eyes as I did upon hearing reports of babies being beheaded by Hamas militants after their incursion into…
[Three Way Fight] “Imperialism as a whole is the enemy of humanity, not particular countries”: Reading Michael Karadjis on the Middle East
Matthew N Lyons, October 8, 2024, from the Three Way Fight Website The last time Israel launched a ground invasion of Lebanon, in 2006, I argued on Three Way Fight…
Evacuating Eden
...They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. - John Milton, Paradise Lost I was going to do a post tonight on the…
What happens to the controversial ‘Alberta Recovery Model’ now that its architect and chief advocate is said to be out?
What will happen to the “Alberta Recovery Model” now that the chief advocate of the province’s much-criticized abstinence-only approach to addiction treatment in Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party Government…
Widdowson wins … sort of
Early last year I posted about the Frances Widdowson case. Dr. Widdowson was a tenured... The post Widdowson wins … sort of first appeared on Views from the Beltline.