Rather than speaking truth to power, legacy media have become stenographers with amnesia, hiding the truth through the use of anodyne adjectives, convoluted phrasing and buried leads. In some cases,…
King Charles III, King of Canada Donald Trump has made repeatedstatements in recent months aboutthe desirability of Canada becominga state in that most disreputable ofrepublics. This is besides Trump'sthreats to…
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Trump administration fires Justice Dept. lawyers who brought criminal cases against him #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/GcsaczLQ6G - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
CALGARY – There are different types of conservatives. In Canada, all will be facing big tests very soon. All of them get categorized as conservatives. But in personality and style,…
Do employees have different severance entitlements under the Employment Standards Act in wrongful dismissal cases that are decided in Court?Ontario's Employment Standards Act provides only for employees' minimum notice and…
Amazon’s message to workers is clear, writes Jim Stanford. Don’t even think about demanding better wages and conditions—we will shut you down and destroy your life. Photo by Elliott Brown/Flickr.…
As predicted on Friday, it didn’t take long for the debunking of the conspiracy-theory-riddled final report of the United Conservative Party Government’s so-called task force on Alberta’s response to the…
A friend sent me this. Could the cartoonist who drew this be looking at sedition charges in the future, or, at the very least, termination of the non-lethal kind?Recommend this…
Here's a nice distraction from our nutty lives: I watched this lovely film about Michael Behrens, a math prodigy who studied at MIT, then left it all at 29. Now…
A decade ago, the New York Times included American cartoonist Jen Sorensen on a short list of the "most gifted lifters of political veils and pretenses." Her work might be…
Ruins of the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip. Photo by Muhammad Sabah. The dominant self-conception of the Jewish story is innocence, repeated persecutions, and then redem...
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Ryan Meili discusses how we should define Canada as a country through an ethic of care - rather than through opposition to any foreign…
Title (Optional)The Fish Lands: German trade with Iceland, Shetland and the Faroe Islands in the late 15th and 16th Century OAPEN : Open Access Book Based on newly uncovered archival…
Title (Optional)The Fish Lands: German trade with Iceland, Shetland and the Faroe Islands in the late 15th and 16th Century OAPEN : Open Access Book Based on newly uncovered archival…
Displaced Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip on January 19, 2025. Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa. The dominant self-conception of the Jewish story is innocence, repeated persecutions, and ...
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: South Korean prosecutors indict impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over martial law decree #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/LTGUmvnL9k - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
On this #InternatHolocaustRemembranceDay I am filled with sadness about the past, and anxiety about the future. Never forget. Never give up.
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Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 27, 2025 from Wise Law on Twitter:Trump Grants Sweeping Clemency to All Jan. 6 RiotersCanada’s Environment and Climate Change…
Kurt Vonnegut on Swooping Versus Bashing
Kurt Vonnegut is my literary hero, who called himself a “swooper.” A swooper is someone who lets the story appear, higgley-piggley, in the first draft.… The post Kurt Vonnegut on…