My latest: the ghost of Bill Blair
NEW YORK – Bill Blair haunts us still. He’s not dead or anything. In fact, he’s still the Minister of National Defence. He’s alive. But his legacy as Toronto’s…
2024
‘Stop the War’ means ‘Death to the Dictatorship’
Anti-war picketers assemble at the 1905 Square in Yekaterinburg, Russia, immediately following the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, February 24, 2022. Photo by Vladislav Postnikov/Wikimedia Commons. Two years ago, Vladimir…
Opt-in Polls: Bad Data, Bad Science, and Bad Actors
I was perusing the usual collage of semi-news, trivia, and fluff on CollingwoodToday recently and noticed a poll at the bottom asking “How old are you?” It piqued my interest…
You – yes, you – can be scammed
One day last week, I got a phone call from my mother-in-law. I know this sounds like the set-up for a joke, but it isn’t. “Where are you?” she practically…
Legal Tweet of the Day: March 5, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Apple fined almost $2B by the EU in music streaming antitrust probe #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/4z4natky – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Julia Doubleday highlights how the continued unmitigated spread of COVID-19 is collapsing hospital systems around the globe. Priyanjana Primanik examines how the…
the ballad of polly bee: in which newbie homeowners learn things they didn’t want to know, but turn annoyance into opportunity
Evil!As you may or may not recall, Allan and I are first-time homeowners. In 2019, both of us in our late 50s, we bought a home in Port Hardy, BC,…
Easy Marks
Millennials, we’re told, are shifting their votes to Pierre Poilievre. Max Fawcett writes that Poilievre is playing them for fools: Credit where it’s due: Pierre Poilievre has talked a good…
Wise Law’s Employment #LawFact of the Day: Termination Without Cause
Can an employer lawfully terminate an exceptional employee who has had consistently good performance reviews? Under Ontario law, an employer may terminate any employee without cause, so long as the…
the ballad of polly bee: in which newbie homeowners learn things they didn’t want to know, but turn annoyance into opportunity
Evil! As you may or may not recall, Allan and I are first-time homeowners. In 2019, both of us in our late 50s, we bought a home in Port Hardy,…
Maybe Concern with Measles will Save us from Covid!!
A thread on how to stay safe from measles and two on why you should keep testing for Covid. The first, on measles, from Jeff Gilchrist (I didn’t block quote…
Former Herald journalist charts shocking decline of Calgary newspapers’ paid circulation
If the federal government thinks its various subsidies to Canadian newspapers are doing much to uphold democracy, it needs to take a clear-eyed look at Postmedia’s paid circulation numbers. The…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Alan Urban writes about the reality that establishment institutions are working on normalizing civilizational collapse – as well as the need to fight…
Legal Tweet of the Day: March 4, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Reception for Trudeau, Italian PM cancelled after pro-Palestinian demonstrators blocked entrances #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/3fcv6z3c – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Take My Money. Please!
With even Britain’s Labour Party avowing no new taxes on the wealthy, it is refreshing when one reads about people of means asking to be taxed more. In the United…
My latest: Toronto’s police farce
NEW YORK – This is a tale of two police forces. One police force knows how to deal swiftly and effectively with pro-Hamas thugs breaking the law. The other is…
Did Mulroney really ‘lead the fight’ against apartheid?
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney speaks after a visit to the United States, 1984. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. On February 29, former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney passed away at the age…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of March 4, 2024
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of March 4, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of March 4, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter: New Jack Smith Filing in the MAL Documents Case (A Thing of…