Now there’s something you don’t see every day!
Some odds and sods and bizarre news: Oh, yeah -- I forgot So today was the day everyone who had been Covid vaccinated was supposed to die.Everyone ok?— RS Archer…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Clingy cat.
Joe Fafard’s NFB film from 1973
I Don’t Have to Work that Big, Michael McKennirey, provided by the National Film Board of Canada. Lots of Regina views toward the end of the film, including some art…
“Imperialism as a whole is the enemy of humanity, not particular countries”: Reading Michael Karadjis on the Middle East [ThreeWayFight]
by Matthew N. Lyons The last time Israel launched a ground invasion of Lebanon, in 2006, I argued on Three Way Fight (here, here, and here) that US leftists should…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Elizabeth Kolbert discusses the immense damage and disruption which we can anticipate if Greenland's massive ice sheet melts due to global warming, while…
Legal News Post of the Day: October 8, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Supreme Court Turns Down Biden’s Appeal in Texas Abortion Case #law #legal #legalnews via @nytimes https://t.co/e7OFSa6wJM - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
Worth Repeating
In my previous post, I wrote about the Ford follies involving luxury spas on Toronto's waterfront. This letter to the editor about the premier's predilection for favouring private interests at…
The Giller Prize and the ‘Indigo 11’
Writers have joined forces with visual artists, filmmakers, and cultural workers under the banner of No Arms in the Arts, a campaign demanding that all cultural institutions receiving funding from…
Wise Law’s Employment #LawFact of the Day: Did you sign a non-competition agreement?
If your employment agreement prohibits you from competing with your employer or soliciting its customers after you leave, those restrictions may not be enforceable.Non-competition agreements are generally unenforceable against Ontario…
Reports of beheaded Israeli babies were bound to be propaganda
Anyone who has studied the history of propaganda must have rolled their eyes as I did upon hearing reports of babies being beheaded by Hamas militants after their incursion into…
[Three Way Fight] “Imperialism as a whole is the enemy of humanity, not particular countries”: Reading Michael Karadjis on the Middle East
Matthew N Lyons, October 8, 2024, from the Three Way Fight Website The last time Israel launched a ground invasion of Lebanon, in 2006, I argued on Three Way Fight…
Evacuating Eden
...They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. - John Milton, Paradise Lost I was going to do a post tonight on the…
What happens to the controversial ‘Alberta Recovery Model’ now that its architect and chief advocate is said to be out?
What will happen to the “Alberta Recovery Model” now that the chief advocate of the province’s much-criticized abstinence-only approach to addiction treatment in Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party Government…
Widdowson wins … sort of
Early last year I posted about the Frances Widdowson case. Dr. Widdowson was a tenured... The post Widdowson wins … sort of first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Jurassic Park: Some Thoughts About the Franchise Part 1
There’s one particular scene in the first Jurassic Park movie, about twenty minutes in, when Dr. Alan Grant and Dr. Ellie Sattler see the dinosaurs walking wild in the open…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Lauren Rosenthal, Brian Sullivan and Christopher Cannon examine how the prospect of extreme weather and associated disasters is a reality everywhere in the U.S.…
One year of genocide in Gaza
A Palestinian mother holds her son while passing a residential building that was destroyed overnight by an Israeli air strike at Sheikh Radwan in Gaza City. Photo by Eman Mohammed.…
Legal News Post of the Day: October 7, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: B.C. man sues RBC after earning then losing $415M on Tesla stocks via @CBCNews https://t.co/szRCcr4RZd - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
Wise Law’s Top 10 #LegalNewsPosts for the Week of October 7, 2024
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of October 7, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of October 7, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter:Eric Adams’s Lawyers Ask Judge to Dismiss Bribery ChargeHalton police bust 51 unplated…