Slava Ukraini
I paint when I’m anxious about the world. I paint a lot, lately. For obvious reasons, I want to fundraise again for Ukrainian Red Cross. Portion of proceeds goes to…
Ontario Wills and Estates #LawFact of the Day: Life Insurance and Your Estate
Life insurance policies that designate a beneficiary become that beneficiary's property on the day the insured dies. They don't become part of the insured’s Estate and they are not subjected…
Inching closer to an uneasy peace in Ukraine
Ukrainian soldiers with a captured Russian T-90M Proryv tank in the Kursk region. Photo courtesy Ministry of Defence of Ukraine/Wikimedia Commons. In December 1990, Serbian rebels declared indep...
Athana Mentzelopoulos files her $1.7-million wrongful dismissal lawsuit and the stuff starts really hitting the fan
Fired Alberta Health Services Chief Executive Officer Athana Mentzelopoulos’s lawyers have filed her $1.7-million lawsuit alleging she was fired “capriciously, arbitrarily, and in bad faith because she was actually carrying…
Things I learned today: Canada is really pissed; the "White Horse Prophecy"; "Leprechaun economics". And an excellent rant!
Doom-scrolling through social media today, I learned some things:First, its always better to be pissed off than pissed on! This is what is happening across all of Canada right now!🇨🇦😊…
AI and Environmental Justice
Responding to: Harnessing AI for Environmental Justice, by request. This originated as a Mastodon thread; I'll preserve the use of the informal 'you' throughout.--So, the document is addressed to activists…
PSA
This is your periodic reminder that I proudly volunteered for Kamala Harris and none of this – none of it – would be happening if we’d won. Elections have consequences.
AI and Environmental Justice
Responding to: Harnessing AI for Environmental Justice, by request. This originated as a Mastodon thread; I'll preserve the use of the informal 'you' throughout.--So, the document is addressed to activists…
Warren loves democracy
I love seeing photos of candidates, of every political stripe, smiling as they canvass and go door-to-door. It’s the purest form of democracy, and I’m a sucker for that. Thanks…
Legal News Post of the Day: February 12, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Woman Files First U.S. Lawsuit Against Andrew Tate and His Brother #law #legal #legalnews via @nytimes https://t.co/8gcNRc5aIS - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way chart the likely road ahead in the U.S.' journey from democracy to authoritarianism, while Hamilton Nolan's interview with Stephanie…
The attack on democratic rights
Activists with Just Stop Oil during a November 2022 protest near Trafalgar Square. Photo by Alisdare Hickson/Flickr. In his inauguration speech, Donald Trump proclaimed, “I was saved by God to…
Trump’s Abraham Accords incited Hamas attack
President Donald Trump, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Foreign Affairs for the United Arab Emirates Abdullah…
Guerrilla Warfare, Anyone?
Although I am now a senior, there is no doubt in my mind that should the Americans ever invade Canada (a notion unthinkable just a short time ago), I would…
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…
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…