Speaking of False Premises
Back in the comments over here, we have quite a doozy of a comment that warrants a more detailed response, because there are underlying assumptions and beliefs that are encompassed…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 4, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Jeffrey Epstein documents unsealed, naming Prince Andrew and former U.S. president Clinton #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews http://tinyurl.com/35d58jzx – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Mobile Pollution Boxes Need to Pay to Enter Manhattan
Cars take up a lot of space in urban centres and deprive non-car owners of previous real estate and a clean environment. Yet, for years we have let car drivers…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What are the legal rights of adopted children?
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What are the legal rights of adopted children when a parent – biological or adoptive – passes away? If the Will makes a gift…
The apocalyptic doublethink of Poilievre’s economics
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre appears in front of Sudbury’s iconic Big Nickel to talk about inflation. Image courtesy of Pierre Poilievre’s YouTube channel. “There are parts of his “Debtonation”…
Can We Get Some Leadership Here?
Hopefully more people will start paying attention to the dangers of Covid and wear a simple N95 to protect themselves and others now that JN.1 seems to be in the…
Losing Like Legault.
It looked like good news. It said that Quebec premier François Legault was losing ground in Quebec politics. It was like the news that your mother-in-law has been killed in…
Bring on the crazy!
I’m seeing some crazy stuff tonight on the social. Like this: As an electrician, i’d like to remind Pierre Poilievre that we don’t capture lighting from the sky. We work…
Engaged citizens need to take it seriously when UCP leaders start talking about mass purges in health care and education
On December 30, Edmonton Sun commentator Rick Bell published a column suggesting Premier Danielle Smith plans a purge of Alberta Health Services that will reach deep into the middle ranks…
AI Has Nothing To Do With Intelligence
AI has nothing to do with intelligence but people believe the marketing hype, mostly because we have a distorted idea of what intelligence is, largely due to the media. Take…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Julia Conley reports that Massachusetts’ referendum-approved millionaire tax raised substantially more income than projected, contributing both to greater equality and more funding for…
AI Has Nothing To Do With Intelligence
AI Has Nothing To Do With Intelligence AI has nothing to do with intelligence but people believe the marketing hype, mostly because we have a distorted idea of what intelligence…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 3, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Harvard president resigns after criticism of testimony on antisemitism, plagiarism allegations #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews http://tinyurl.com/2fxas64t – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
My latest: it’s illegal, and I don’t care who does it
Sorry, partisans, but you can’t have it both ways. January 2022: protestors start blocking Ottawa streets to make a political point. Police are ultimately used to clear them out. Some…
A Personal Reflection
Regular readers may have noticed that I have not been posting very much in the last month or so. In addition to it having been a busy Christmas season, the…
How Heat Pumps Work
Despite the climate crisis some places (like Canada) are still building houses with fossil fuel based heating systems, and this needs to change. Gas companies and their planet-killing kin have…
While Canadian workers struggle, CEOs keep getting richer
While living conditions across Canada decay and the future looks increasingly grim for many, the richest CEOs in the country continue to fatten their pockets at the majority’s expense. Image…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates
If you’re making the Last Will there are 4 things that you should think about. 1. Who do I want to leave my property to after I pass away? 2.…
Learning community engagement
Aside from growing much of their own food, running a high workload business, and raising a family, my parents were constantly involved in the community throughout my growing up, and…
Is Canada Okay?
Dr. Mike Moffatt explained the six economic problems Canadians should worry about. He starts with red tape stopping things that would benefit us, a lack of state capacity, overlapping jurisdictions…