Ontario Wills and Estates #LawFact of the Day: Holograph Wills in Ontario
For an Ontario Will to be valid, it must be signed by the testator and be witnessed by two people who are not beneficiaries under the Will.A Holograph Will is…
Today’s News: Afternoon of the Rubber Knives, Liberal Caucus Edition
You could almost hear Ottawa deflate this afternoon as the Liberal caucus "let's get rid of Trudeau!" frenzy squiffed out. Night of the Long Knives turned into the Fish-Slapping sketch.CBC…
Coming Together
When I first started in this business of working online some thirty years ago I was somewhat surprised to learn that it would involve more, not less, travel. And so…
Coming Together
When I first started in this business of working online some thirty years ago I was somewhat surprised to learn that it would involve more, not less, travel. And so…
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…