Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Trevor Memmot and Christian Weller write about the long road to recovery from the trauma of hurricanes and other climate change-induced environmental disasters. Jack…
It Can’t Happen Here
About 90 years ago Sinclair Lewis wrote his novel, It Can’t Happen Here. It’s uncanny. In the novel “Buzz” Windrip, a senator, a showman, a demagogue, a conman wins the…
Some sketchy news seeds
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Saving You Time
...but destroying the environment and likely killing some cyclists in the process. That's Doug Ford's new Bill 212: Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act. Despite all research, knowledge and reality…
Wise Law’s Family #LawFact of the Day: Spousal Support in Ontario
To determine entitlements to spousal support, Ontario courts consider the financial means of both spouses, the length of their marriage, and any economic disadvantage experienced by a spouse as a…
A Third Referendum?
Slogans have meaning.
Today in the Stupid: Trump
That's it. That's the title. Two weeks to go but I think America has already reached its gag limit. The McDonald's stunt may have been the last. Tim Walz has…
Acting like an Opposition politician, Danielle Smith fruitlessly needles NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi
“Premier Smith says she’s waiting on Nenshi to call Lethbridge-West by-election,” said the headline yesterday on the MyLethbridgeNow.com website. I’m going to give the good folks at the Southern Alberta…
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…