Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cat with buddy.
My latest: Canada warned of terror attack – and does little
Canada could experience a lone-wolf terror attack soon, intelligence authorities have advised the federal government – and antisemitism is overwhelmingly the motivating factor. “Amid anti-Semitic hate, an undetected lone actor…
Legal News Post of the Day: February 25, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: RFK Jr. Announces New HHS Guidance Recognizing Only Two Sexes #law #legal #legalnews via @nytimes https://t.co/uZZ5tzih8B - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Who is going to buy Alberta coal?
If you listen to Alberta’s United Conservative Party (UCP) and the government it runs, you might have heard them talk about the economic need to mine coal on the Eastern…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Brian Cox writes that the combined cruelty and incompetence of the new Trump oligarchy should remind us of the need to tax the…
Canada has no excuse left: it’s time for a wealth tax
Photo by aisletwentytwo/Flickr This Black History Month, it’s important to recognize that economic injustice—both in Canada and around the world—is deeply rooted in racism. The property system i...
Wise Law’s Employment #LawFact of the Day: Severance Entitlements of Long-Term Employees #law #legal #wrongfuldismissal #termination
In 2015, an Ontario Court awarded 27 months’ of pay in lieu of reasonable notice to a 65-year-old civil engineer who had been employed for 40.66 years. In exceptional circumstances…
Today’s News: Liberal leadership debate, night one; and Trudeau in Ukraine
My photo is by "PoliLEGO" on tonight's Liberal leadership debate from @polilego.bsky.social -it shows @markjcarney.bsky.social @chrystia-freeland.bsky.social @karinagould.bsky.social and Frank Baylis.So tonight I went spinning through X, Threads, ...
Make no mistake, the UCP’s planned ‘compassionate intervention centres’ will be jails
Make no mistake, the two “compassionate intervention centres” planned by Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government will be jails. At a fancy televised news conference in Calgary yesterday with a large…
Actively working for change…
Audre Lorde was particularly focused on issues involving race and oppression, but her words are relevant to all of today's critical issues. Individually, we may not affect material change, but…
rtod: a folk song is what’s wrong and how to fix it
Revolutionary thought of the day: "I think real folk stuff scares most of the boys around Wahsington. A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it, or it…
Legal News Post of the Day: February 24, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: As Trump complains about Canada, data shows most crime guns seized in Greater Toronto Area (GTA) come from U.S. #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/SCHh7H5DoR - Garry J. Wise,…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Charlie Angus discusses how the second Trump administration has been systematically dismantling both internal democracy and international alliances in order to tighten the executive's…
Canadian Broadcasting In Crisis
Does saying "Jeeeezus" and "oh my God" over and over as I scroll through the news count as praying? It's not just all the bizarre appointments in the US that…
in which i scour the internet for signs of resistance and wonder if anyone is organizing a general strike
Where is the resistance? My question is not "where is the outrage, why is no one resisting," and so forth.There is always resistance. I know it's out there. It must…
Still Dead To Me – Part 2
Following up on my previous post about the erstwhile 'Great' One, Number 99 himself, it is clear that the odium he sparked by his appearance in Boston as the ceremonial…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Legal News Posts for the Week of February 24, 2025
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of February 24, 2025
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of February 24, 2025 from Wise Law on Twitter:Teen pleads guilty to manslaughter in fatal swarming of homeless Toronto manLaw Society…
Some questions for the Liberal leadership debates
So on Monday night the Liberal leadership candidates are debating in French, and on Tuesday in English. Like most Canadians, I have been semi-following the leadership race -- I wasn't…
Oh Canada, best Stand on Guard
I have not commented much here on the political climate anymore but the current total cluster fk both provincial and federal can hardly be let go by without sharing my…