Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Feline outreach.
High Noon
Pick on someone your own size
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Will Hutton discusses how the growing gap between the rich and everybody else is eating away at Britain's collective well-being, while Phillip Inman…
Legal News Post of the Day: October 22, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Exonerated Central Park Five sue Donald Trump for 'demonstrably false' debate remarks #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/Yy9JTPVBLD - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
In West Africa, Canadian mining firms come up against bloc of independent states
Mali’s Assimi Goïta, Niger’s General Abdourahamane Tchiani, and Burkina Faso’s Captain Ibrahim Traoré at the first summit of heads of state and governments of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES)…
beware the common sense con
When politicians offer up “common sense” solutions beware. Politicians will often tell us that what they stand for is precisely what regular folk, “ordinary hard-working taxpayers” want and believe. As…
Wise Law’s Employment #LawFact of the Day: Common Law Entitlements Upon Termination
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…
Masking in Hospitals
Toronto's UHN hospitals (Princess Margaret, Toronto General...) are reinstating masking requirements. BUT medical masks. N95s are allowed, but not required. AND masks are not required in lobbies and common areas.…
The strategy
Holocaust inversion: that has been the strategy of the antisemitic, pro-Hamas cabal – to depict Jews, who were the victims of Nazis, as the new Nazis. To depict Israel as…
Today’s News: Provincial elections; and another friendly sausage-maker moment
We've had two provincial elections in the last week -- BC was a squeaker for its progressive party, but New Brunswick was a resounding progressive success.Canadian Media today: BC elections…
Post election comments
The NDP holds one more seat in the Legislature than the BC Conservatives. David Eby will continue as Premier by depending on support from Rob Botterall and Jeremy Valeriote, two…
Capitalism’s Effect on Bird Flu
If you think Covid is bad (or even if you don't), if H5N1 starts passing from human to human, it could be worse. It's not just about the virus's effect…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Jessica Glenza reports on a new survey showing that the overwhelming majority of U.S. youth are (rightly) worried about the climate crisis. Pamela Swanigan…
Legal News Post of the Day: October 21, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: National ban on vaping flavours coming 'soon,' says addictions minister #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/aCMwQ9EEHo - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Wise Law’s Top 10 #LegalNewsPosts for the Week of October 21, 2024
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of October 21, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of October 21, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter:Canadian court to consider when minors can be sentenced as adultsOntario to require…
Funnies and Long Threads: from King Charles to airplane seats; from hurricane stories to Bob Dylan
Let's start with some funnies: Post by @patricknessbooks View on Threads Post by @ogginblog View on Threads Post by @the.language.nerds View on Threads Post by @johnfugelsang View on Threads Post…
No party snatches defeat from the jaws of victory like the NDP, and none does it with the flair they do in B.C.
No political party can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory like the NDP! And, as we watched in horror Saturday night, no Canadian New Democratic Party does it with…
Bill 20: Another Bill No One Asked For
” are good for municipalities, good for voters, good for Albertans.” – Ric McIver, minister of Municipal Affairs with respect to Bill 20. How do they do it? How can…