Sweden—a model economy
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Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Joan Westenberg writes about the insistence by Elon Musk and others that people be forced to listen to bigotry in the name of…
Legal News Post of the Day: August 15, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Court to mull fate of pro-Palestinian protest camp at B.C. university #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/oPZ3t5Ip8O - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Blatant Racism
I don't have anything especially interesting to about write today, so I thought I would put up this video that exemplifies the unapologetic racism of Don Trump and his adherents.…
Uproar over CBC bonuses ignores industry realities, international comparisons
Photo by Richard Akerman/Flickr Context is something journalists are supposed to provide in reporting on matters of national importance, but it has been sadly lacking so far in coverage of…
Wise Law’s Wills and Estate’s #LawFact of the Day: Intestacy in Ontario
When a person dies without a Will, an intestacy arisesOntario’s Succession Law Reform Act establishes rules for the distribution of an intestate deceased person’s property.An intestate person’s spouse inherits the…
Today’s News: Harris/Walz v. the national press
Once again, America's national press are whining about Kamala Harris not holding press conferences. Apparently, US voters can hardly wait to hear about Kamala's views on fracking and Medicare and…
What The World Needs Most
Great discussion, as always, and a great song. (See the link below, to a podcast interview by one of my top three sources.) Now, maybe a song about sisu, the…
Legal News Post of the Day: August 14, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Justice Merchan Denies Trump’s Recusal Bid, Rebuking Him for Claiming Harris Ties #law #legal #legalnews via @nytimes https://t.co/PifjaAaH4r - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
BC United (formerly B.C. Liberals)
Kevin Falcon returned to politics from his job with one of BC's largest real estate developers. Falcon was a guy who lied about BC Rail being bankrupt and therefore a…
Wise Law’s Family #LawFact of the Day: Net Family Property in Ontario
Ontario’s Family Law Act (FLA) governs the equalization and division of property between spouses upon marital separation.It applies only to spouses who are legally married.A spouse may be entitled to…
A Time for Political Optimism at Last
After many dreary months of the relentless, pounding negativity, insults, accusations, lies, deflections, racism, and rage-farming of a convicted felon, tax cheat, and serial liar Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, we…
The Death of Canadian Medicare
Nearly a fifth of New Brunswick residents don’t have access to a family doctor. Over 400 family doctors in Quebec have left the public healthcare system altogether, and are free…
Raj Sherman is back again, this time as Danielle Smith’s man at the head of the Health Quality Council of Alberta
As if to reinforce his role as the proverbial bad penny of Alberta politics, Raj Sherman has turned up again – this time as Premier Danielle Smith’s man at the…
Sweeping up the Heart: Molly
Our Molly died today. She was diagnosed with gastric lymphoma cancer in May, and we knew from the beginning that it was incurable. We hoped we could at least have…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Syris Valentine writes about our severe and chronic environmental overshoot in using far more resources than the Earth can replenish. Clayton Page Aldern…
Uniting The People
I wish “the West” had a powerful anti-aurhoritarian left, but currently we do not. Am I the only one left of the real left? Surely not. But things are shifting…
In Kitsilano, the Case of the Beloved and Broken Pool
‘The City of Vancouver will never see this fall to ruin,’ a former park board chair said. But will it?Jen St. Denis The TyeeJen St. Denis is a reporter with…
In Kitsilano, the Case of the Beloved and Broken Pool
‘The City of Vancouver will never see this fall to ruin,’ a former park board chair said. But will it?Jen St. Denis The TyeeJen St. Denis is a reporter with…