Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Robert Reich comments on the U.S.' out-of-control oligarchy - while noting there are precedents in turning the tide. Alexander Hurst calls out Elon Musk…
December 2024
Legal News Post of the Day: December 20, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Appeals Court Disqualifies Fani Willis From Prosecuting Georgia Trump Case #law #legal #legalnews via @nytimes https://t.co/bhV3IorOCd - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visi...
Around my neck
What I wear around my neck. From right: letter “W” purchased from a Mayan in Mexico, St. Joan of Arc (my hero), Magen David I just got.
This week’s #FlashbackFridaypost is from March 18, 2006
This week’s #FlashbackFridaypost is from March 18, 2006 via Wise Law Blog: $1 Million damages for Mental Suffering to BC Employee https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2006/03/1-million-damages-for-mental-suffering.html - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our To...
In Praise of Idleness
By Bertrand Russell, Harper’s Magazine, 1932: Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.” Being a…
The pigs are now wearing trousers
Words from two of Britain’s finest humourists.
Danielle Smith congratulates the loser of the Lethbridge-West by-election; family docs’ pay deal is finally done
Had the United Conservative Party’s John Middleton-Hope won Wednesday’s by-election in Lethbridge-West, one wonders if Health Minister Adriana LaGrange would have invited him along yesterday to help her make her…
Dumb Americans
Americans sure love their perp walks, but they’re going to deeply regret this one (which even included New York City’s mayor): it was wildly, inarguably prejudicial and will be used…
B’nai Brith demands the truth
On November 4, 2024, B’nai Brith discovered that Library and Archives Canada will not release Part II of the 1986 Deschênes Commission’s report on Nazi war criminals. This goes against…
On disruption
There's little doubt that Chrystia Freeland's resignation from the federal cabinet (with associated spillover effects) has managed to earn the notice of even those largely disconnected from politics. And while…
Legal News Post of the Day: December 19, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay:TikTok asks U.S. Supreme Court for emergency order to block upcoming ban #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/i31qX7h1s7 - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Iris Gorfinkel rightly asks why Doug Ford (among other politicians) doesn't want people to know if they have COVID-19 when that knowledge would…
Setting the record straight on Canada’s ‘productivity crisis’
Economists like to fashion themselves as the “adults in the room.” However, their notion that incomes are determined by productivity is incredibly naïve, writes D.T. Cochrane. Photo courtesy Archives of…
Ontario Wills and Estates #LawFact of the Day: Public Policy and Your Last Will
A last will cannot have provisions that run contrary to public policy.For instance, a will cannot discriminate against a family member because of their…Religionmarital status, orsexual orientationIt cannot encourage people…
Lethbridge-West by-election voters send NDP’s Rob Miyashiro to the Alberta Legislature
In a refreshing sign of intelligent life on the Great Plains of Alberta, voters in the Lethbridge-West by-election sent New Democrat Rob Miyashiro to the provincial Legislature in Edmonton yesterday.…
Today’s News: Weakness all around
The government shutdown talk in the United States shows Trump for what he really is -- a weak clown Oliver Willis / Daily Kos Billionaires lead GOP revolt against critical…
Five Point Plan to Save Canada from the Cons
1. Justin Trudeau announces his intention to resign as Prime Minister to the Liberal caucus and the Liberal caucus appoints an interim leader. 2. Justin Trudeau resigns as Prime Minister…
Five Point Plan to Save Canada from the Cons
1. Justin Trudeau announces his intention to resign as Prime Minister to the Liberal caucus and the Liberal caucus appoints an interim leader. 2. Justin Trudeau resigns as Prime Minister…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Kat Kerlin writes about new research showing that the true social cost of carbon pollution is over $280 per ton - far higher than…
Legal News Post of the Day: December 18, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Luigi Mangione Charged With Murder in UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing #law #legal #legalnews via @nytimes https://t.co/KZRatQj2Uw - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…