Appropriate Fear and Respect
We teach our children to have a "healthy fear" of the water, to respect that it's possible to drown in the shallows or to hit our head on a rock…
2024
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- David Climenhaga writes that nobody should be surprised by Danielle Smith's determination to privatize Alberta's health system - though her explicit declaration that she…
Legal News Post of the Day: August 30, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: As another cannabis retailer tries to save itself, is the industry going up in smoke? #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/8yveJ98EWa - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto…
Let’s try this…
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This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from March 19, 2013
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from March 19, 2013 via Wise Law Blog: Vexatious Litigants http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2013/03/vexatious-litigants.html - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit o...
Today’s News: Christ, What An Asshole!
Two stories today in the "Christ, What An Asshole" news, and its not surprising they concern Pierre Poilievre and Donald Trump. He calls him sellout Singh and then asks for…
Possibly the biggest rollback of public health insurance in Canadian history gets underway in Alberta with barely a peep of protest
With the creation of the Recovery Alberta agency and the plan to farm out of all addiction recovery treatment programs to a small group of out-of-province private operators with a…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Brittany Hopkins rightly argues that parents with any interest in providing a worthwhile future for their children should be motivated to combat the…
Legal News Post of the Day: August 29, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: High-ranking Toronto cop demoted at cheating scandal disciplinary hearing #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/iy9X7ykzYU - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit...
UPDATED:Exploiting The Dead
You have likely heard about the debacle at Arlington National Cemetery where Don Trump and his team took pictures and video of him laying a wreath honouring the war dead.…
Wise Law’s Estate #LawFact of the Day: What is an Estate Information Return?
An Estate Information form is used by an Estate to certify the net value of its assets and to verify the Estate Administration taxes payable by an Estate. An Estate…
Today’s News: Thinking positive thoughts about Trudeau
Last week, Ekos published the poll above - here is the discussion:Conservative Party Sees Seven-Point Decline: The Harris Effect? Party still leads by 14 points, would likely win majority if…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- The Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research discusses a new study showing that the effects of a climate breakdown could far exceed what has…
Legal News Post of the Day: August 28, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Ontario Superior Court's Fred Myers: breaking the mental health stigma #law #legal #legalnews https://t.co/9NNXDT2Vzb - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
Costs of Disability
Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, the guy who told the Senate Hearing that the burden Long Covid is on par with the burden of cancer and heart disease, wrote a brief explainer…
Wise Law’s Family #LawFact of the Day: How do Child Support Payments Work in Ontario?
The amount of support payable by separated parents in Ontario is strictly governed by the Child Support Guidelines.The Guidelines tables establish basic child support obligations and are based solely on…
Redecorating Isn’t Reform
Not only in Canada
States of exception
Stripped, blindfolded, and bound Palestinian civilians are taken prisoner and ordered into a line by Israeli occupation forces in Gaza in December 2023. Photo from a social media post by…
Long Threads: Some things I didn’t know
I suffer from"vellichor" myself!X is slowing down but I still find some great "long threads" posts.These comparison photos are fascinating:2. Big oak tree, Thomasville, Georgia, 1885 to 2020 pic.twitter.com/tHUe1j8fMZ— Time…