Legal News Post of the Day: September 24, 2024
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: 'It's disgusting': Ford calls for investigation into Toronto school field trip that ended at 'Palestinian rally' #law #legal #legalnews via @CTVNews https://t.co/geuuhHi9is - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our…
Wise Law’s Employment #LawFact of the Day: Can a Temporary Layoff be Considered a Termination of Employment?
Temporary layoffs of employment may not be permitted unless there is an employment contract that specifically permits such layoffs. In most circumstances, legally permitted layoffs can only last:A. Not more…
Trudeau knocks it out of the park
Trudeau was on Stephen Colbert tonight and the Conservatives are furious -- how dare he demonstrate his popularity, his interview chops, and his international standing so easily, when he is…
The Danielle Smith Chronicles: Still picking fights and wasting other people’s money
Last June, Naheed Nenshi began his campaign to lead the Alberta NDP by observing that Premier Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party “only know how to do two things:…
What is the real price of your hamburger?
As much as we trust the free market, it isn’t always honest with us. It... The post What is the real price of your hamburger? first appeared on Views from…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Sarah Kaplan and Simon Ducroquet highlight new research documenting hundreds of millions of years worth of temperature fluctuations - and finding both that high…
Out of control spending on for-profit nursing agencies to surpass $1.5B in Canada this year: report
Spending on so-called “agency nurses,” nurses employed by for-profit nursing agencies whose services are contracted out to short-staffed public health care employers to fill temporary staffing needs, is out of…
Wise Law’s Top 10 #LegalNewsPosts for the Week of September 23, 2024
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of September 23, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of September 23, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter:Sean (Diddy) Combs faces criminal indictment in New York, prosecutors saySean 'Diddy' Combs…
"Basket of deplorables" 2024 version: fearful, credulous, vicious, cheap, thoughtless and destructive
Remember in 2016, when Hillary said some Trump supporters were "a basket of deplorables" and the US media clutched their pearls and fainted all over their couches and gasped how…
Book review: Beneath the Surface of Things, by Wade Davis
This is a collection of 13 essays by Canadian anthropologist Wade Davis. There isn't any overall theme to them, other than they are all well worth reading. Two of them,…
How to Return to Civility in Politics?
Who's fueling the decay in politics? The post How to Return to Civility in Politics? first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Tarique Niazi discusses some of the geopolitical implications of the intensifying climate crisis. Aaron Whetty offers a reminder that the joint effort by…
When ‘disinformation’ control becomes government censorship
TIFF Lightbox in Toronto. Photo by Raysonho/Wikimedia Commons. The Liberals are openly suppressing alternative views on the war in eastern Europe and ramping up dangerous rhetoric towards a nucl...
Saturday Photo: When Stars Fell on….
This is the time of year when the stars are out...in the front yard. I mean, asters are in bloom everywhere, rivaling the heavenly show. Quite lovely.
My latest: the truth about terror
Hezbollah is a terrorist entity. It is designated as a terrorist entity by Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the U.A.E. and many other countries. Its members are…