Citing health challenges, Edmonton-City Centre MLA David Shepherd has announced he will not be joining the Alberta NDP leadership race after all. Mr. Shepherd on the campaign trail shortly before…
Timecop1983 – On The Run
The announcement that the King had cancer was surprising for a number of reasons. For starters, the fact the Royal Family was even forthcoming about the surgery that resulted in…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Massage therapist allegedly secretly recorded client undressing in Pickering, Ont.: police #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews http://tinyurl.com/yckyacfr – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Assorted content to end your week. – Anthony Leonardi writes about the reality that COVID-19 is intrinsically more harmful than “ordinary” respiratory viruses due to its continuing effect on the…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from April 17, 2007 via Wise Law Blog: Employment Law: Is Online “Adult” Activity Relevant to the Workplace http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2007/04/employment-law-is-online-adult-activity.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit…
This week, the House voted down a resolution to establish a citizens’ council to study proportional representation. Max Fawcett writes: On Wednesday, the House of Commons voted against a motion…
Yes, I get the reason some people might have been outraged that a white guy (Johnny Depp) played an indigenous person in the 2013 movie version of The Lone Ranger.…
A huge complication of Covid is that it affects so many different parts of the body. We can’t kill it, but we can prevent it from getting in. On Wednesday,…
A young woman carries her infant while walking on Rashid Street, west of Gaza City, on January 11, 2024. Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa/UNICEF/Flickr. “There is almost no kind of outrage…
February 8, 2024 news item: BCE slashes 9% of workforce, puts blame at the feet of regulators and policymakers. The cuts affect about 4,800 jobs and follow the elimination of…
I am reading a called ‘Yeah, Yeah, Yeah’ a history of pop music. Naturally, there was a chapter on The Beatles and their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show,…
Edmonton-Whitemud MLA Rakhi Pancholi formally joined the NDP leadership race yesterday. Candidate Kathleen Ganley (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). This was not exactly a surprise, as Ms. Pancholi, an Edmonton lawyer…
In nine months, we will know whether Biden and the Democrats can win the American election. Though in 2020 Biden won the popular vote by millions, he only won the…
Canada is a very free country, but unfortunately not a very democratic one. Not when our electoral system consistently gives us governments that most of us don’t choose. For example,…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Mark Poynting reports on the latest data showing that global warming reached the 1.5 C threshold over the past year. And Adrienne…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Montreal man charged with uttering death threats against Trudeau #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews http://tinyurl.com/bdejstpc – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
The house was old; the house was big – bigger in fact than it had ever been. Not much happened upstairs, in the attic, because the attic was full of…
For the past couple of years I have been reading about the antebellum South, the Civil War, and the so-called Reconstruction era that followed. My reading has uncovered a number…
