The Datasphere Is Coming
The Gates of Polished Horn has many science fiction stories that are preoccupied with the notion of what I call The Datasphere. This is more… The post The Datasphere Is…
February 2025
Wise Law’s Family #LawFact of the Day: Same-Sex Marriage in Canada
The first same-sex marriage in Ontario occurred on January 14, 2001.Its legality, along with the legality of many other same-sex marriages, was affirmed by the Ontario Court of Appeal on…
Leadership and the Next Election
On the 9th of March, the new Liberal leader should ask the current Prime Minister to stay on in a caretaker role and immediately visit the Governor General to dissolve…
Guantánamo redux
Two US Army military police escort a detainee, dressed in an orange jumpsuit, to a cell at Camp X-Ray, Guantánamo Bay Navy Base, Cuba. Photo by Mate 1st Class Shane…
UCP Attacks! Any old port in a storm when all the media wants to talk about is the Dodgy Contracts Scandal
Desperate to distract from the attention being paid to allegations of dodgy contracts pushed by government insiders, Alberta’s United Conservative Government attacked the Canadian Union of Public Employees yesterday, accusing…
Bending the knee
Media organizations in the US are expected to bend the knee now: There is going to come a time in the very near future where the only way to resolve…
And what about the .70 percent?
In these days of increasing international tensions, we hear incessantly about the magic two percent.... The post And what about the .70 percent? first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Should I smite them?
In 2000, James M. Kauffman forwarded a satirical letter circulating the Internet, addressed to conservative talk-show host, Dr. Laura Schlessinger. As a result, he became entangled in the raging controversies…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Elevated cat.
Democracy is at risk… everwhere!
PhD historian Giordano Nanne wrote that his main focus was "comparative colonialism in the 19th-century British Empire; and more specifically, settler-colonialism in Australia." Nanni's focus may have shifted because he…
My latest: wake up, Team Tory
If the polls are accurate, this has never really happened before. The Conservative Party of Canada has dropped nearly 30 percentage points in six weeks. Now, in 1984, there was…
Who do you believe?
The BBC issued a February report that found “significant inaccuracies” with news summaries generated from artificial intelligence (AI) engines including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and Perplexity AI. “The…
Who do you believe?
The BBC issued a February report that found “significant inaccuracies” with news summaries generated from artificial intelligence (AI) engines including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and Perplexity AI. “The…
Legal News Post of the Day: February 11, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: A Guide to the Lawsuits Against the Trump Executive Orders #law #legal #legalnews via @nytimes https://t.co/JrBLD4Y9ca - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Paul Krugman discusses how Donald Trump and Elon Musk are severing the U.S.' ties around the world. And Eamon James and Dan Mangan…
Italo Calvino and His Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino is a writer I’ve admired for some time, particularly his book, Invisible Cities. Somewhere in the middle of my new collection, The Gates… The post Italo Calvino and…
Wise Law’s Employment #LawFact of the Day: Discrimination in the Workplace
Ontario employers are prohibited from discrimination in the workplace against any employee.Employers may not discriminate on the basis of- Race- Religion- Citizenship- Gender- Sexual Orientation or Identification- Disability- AgeIf you…
UPDATED: A Repository Of Wisdom
I read a letter to the editor the other day to the effect that policy-makers would be wise to consult the op-ed pages for inspiration. Good journals offer repositories of…
Hard times are here
Boxes wait to be filled with provisions at the Daily Bread Food Bank warehouse in Toronto. Last year there were close to three million visits to Toronto food banks—a 50…