America’s attention-junkie shoots himself in the foot
Slapping a 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico is like trying to rob a bank by threatening to shoot your own toe off.— Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 (@4HumanUnity) November 26, 2024 Trump wants…
November 2024
My latest: war is declared – on us
Trump Tax™️. President-elect Donald Trump may call it a “tariff,” but essentially that is what he is promising to impose on his first day in office: a tax. “Tariff” comes…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- John Woodside reports on the pitiful excuse for climate finance advanced by developed countries at COP29. Kate Dooley highlights how the carbon trading…
Legal News Post of the Day: November 26, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Trump promises a 25% tariff on products from Canada, Mexico #law #legal #LegalNews via @CTVNews https://t.co/lIegQ5HxXX - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Wise Law’s Employment #LawFact of the Day: How to Resign the Right Way
An employee is obligated to give reasonable notice of intention to resign from his or her position of employment.The amount of notice to be given will depend on a number…
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Palestine, and a message of resistance
Israeli checkpoint at the entrance of Shuhada Street in Hebron, Palestine. Photo by Mehdi Chebil. The Message Ta-Nehisi Coates One World, 2024 In East Jerusalem, roughly a ...
Alberta pulls plug (again) on regional planning – a big win for the ‘Sprawl Cabal,’ not so much for city taxpayers
The United Conservative Party is pulling the plug on regional planning in Alberta in a move that will be a big win for the “Sprawl Cabal” of wealthy developers and…
Canada inches toward justice for the Palestinians
Canada’s attitude toward the Palestinian people could be described as hypocritical. We have consistently claimed... The post Canada inches toward justice for the Palestinians first appeared on Views from the…
Trump declares war on Canuckistan
Interest rate cuts: over. Rates up to save CAD: likely. 65¢ dollar: yep. Consumer spending choked off: unavoidable. Big layoffs: ditto. Alberta oil (#1 export): crushed. Welcome to a world…
Legal News Post of the Day: November 25, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Second Cup closes cafés, cuts ties with Montreal franchisee over 'hateful remarks and gestures' #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/w2hIocoTF9 - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
Today’s tonic: Breaking the CBC and our link to public broadcasting?
Breaking: the CBC and our link to public broadcasting? by Susan Riley If this is public broadcasting’s last chance to save itself, it needs to move fast—and the majority of…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Whizy Kim writes about the rise of the overt use of wealth and associated fame to overwhelm the U.S.' political system. Jason Sattler discusses…
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Today’s tonic: Breaking the CBC and our link to public broadcasting?
Breaking: the CBC and our link to public broadcasting? by Susan RileyIf this is public broadcasting’s last chance to save itself, it needs to move fast—and the majority of Canadians…
Saturday Photo: For My American Friends During This Thanksgiving Week…
Lots of talk from south of the border about deporting millions of illegal immigrants. Not going to do a bit to bring prices down, or make life any easier for…
Wise Law’s Top 10 #LegalNewsPosts for the Week of November 25, 2024
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of November 25, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 25, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter:Former justice minister Irwin Cotler says RCMP told him Iranian plot to kill…
Canada’s news media must be refashioned for the future
Photo by Serge Tanet/Flickr Writing about all of the problems with the ownership of Canada’s news media, as I have done for the past quarter century, has become frustrating. From…