Legal Tweet of the Day: April 9, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Canadian DNA lab knew its paternity tests identified the wrong dads, but it kept selling them #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/m92mx66y – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Cory Doctorow discusses the inherent impossibility of trying to build any public good on an economic system centered on selfishness: This is…
A Weird, Weird World
Fifty years ago, Louis Armstrong had a big hit singing “What A Wonderful World.” That song doesn’t characterize the world we live in. Susan Riley writes: Anyone looking for evidence…
Wise Law’s Employment #LawFact of the Day: Severance entitlements of long-term employees
In 2015, an Ontario Court awarded 27 months’ of pay in lieu of reasonable notice to a 65-year-old civil engineer who had been employed for 40.66 years. In exceptional circumstances…
Wisdom is timeless
Louis Brandeis (1856-1941) was a U.S. Supreme Court Justice for 23 years from 1916. He was nominated by Woodrow Wilson but the President’s choice was hotly contested. Writing for the…
Danielle Smith squirms at thought of Jason Kenney’s Critical Infrastructure Defence Act used against her allies
You might be tempted to think Alberta Premier Danielle Smith was on the right track with her obvious discomfort at the thought of her predecessor’s Critical Infrastructure Defence Act being…
My latest: the Super Bowl for nutbars
ST. ELIZABETH PARISH, JAMAICA – Jamaica wasn’t really the best place to see the eclipse on Monday. For one thing, it’s way too far from what the scientists were calling…
Watch this
Want to know why Trump is going to lose? Here’s just one more.
How the Fossil Fuel Industry Can Save Itself and the Planet
The fossil fuel industry seems to have a romantic fascination with “all the oil in the ground”, a fascination that shields it from financial reality. There are two things absolutely…
How the Fossil Fuel Industry Can Save Itself and the Planet
The fossil fuel industry seems to have a romantic fascination with “all the oil in the ground”, a fascination that shields it from financial reality. There are two things absolutely…
Let’s Go Back To The DSM III !
Apparently there is a belief held among certain members of the trans community that we should go back in time … back to the days of the DSM III in…
Let’s Go Back To The DSM III !
Apparently there is a belief held among certain members of the trans community that we should go back in time … back to the days of the DSM III in…
"i’m afraid to leave the house, because i’ll hear about another death": the ongoing crises and the toll on frontline workers
The branch supervisor of the Port Hardy Librarymade these, on her own initiative. We have givenaway more than 50 of these "crisis keychains" so far.Front and back pictured here.The Port…
"i’m afraid to leave the house, because i’ll hear about another death": the ongoing crises and the toll on frontline workers
The branch supervisor of the Port Hardy Librarymade these, on her own initiative. We have givenaway more than 50 of these “crisis keychains” so far.Front and back pictured here. The…
Legal Tweet of the Day: April 8, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Greta Thunberg released after Dutch climate protest arrest, rejoins protest and is arrested again #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/49ffd8fp – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
On This Eclipse Day
The crazed populist and evangelical set is trumpeting today’s eclipse as yet another indicator of the end times. Marjorie Taylor Greene, never one to pass up an opportunity to display…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Law Tweets for the Week of April 8, 2024
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of April 8, 2024
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 8, 2024 from Wise Law on Twitter: Trump posts $175M bond in civil fraud case, then hit with expanded…