Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jon Henley reports on new research showing that adopting right-wing policies does nothing to help left-of-centre parties win votes (while producing disastrous effects…
Nazis, f**k off!
Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Henry Rollins are of Jewish descent. Joey and Tommy Ramone were Jews. So was Richard Hell and the Dictators. So is Fat Mike of NOFX. Brett…
A New Vaccine Study is Giving Me Hope!
Amazing news about a new vaccine methodology! Eric Topol gave a brief rundown of the vaccine and highlighted the study: “Engineered secretory IgA antibodies vs Omicron (BA,1, BA.2, BA.5) were…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 10, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Sunwing passengers still awaiting compensation more than a year after vacation flight disruptions #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews http://tinyurl.com/5x4nfyjm – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates January 9, 2024
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: What is an Executor?
What is an Executor? An Executor is the person who’s the legal representative of your Estate. After you die, your Executor is responsible for taking all of the assets and…
Family time and early education
We did not have much in the way of family time for most of the year, making up for it with an annual drive to Florida to visit my grandparents,…
Misdirected energy policies
In 2018, BC Hydro began discouraging the production of solar power in British Columbia. Customers with solar panels had been allowed a two-way connection to the grid. When they fed…
Building on the Brand.
Can you believe that the liberals in Ontario will have a new leader next week and the Ford conservatives are going to pay to introduce her to Ontario voters. Ford…
Judge upholds Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s $6,000 fine but the organization’s dubious credibility will likely survive
Back in January 2019, observers of the Alberta political scene wondered if the $6,000 administrative penalty levied against the Canadian Taxpayers Federation for failing to register as a third-party advertiser…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Crashed cat.
“Thankful For” List
Happy New Year! What is on your “thankful for” list at the start of 2024? 2023 concluded for me with a bang – I became a grandma! So far, a…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jessica Wildfire laments the great abdication of mutual responsibility which is resulting in countless preventable dangers being allowed to spread unabated. And…
Adfree Cities for Happier and Healthier Cities
Billboards are a plight on the environment that also negatively impact our mental health – so why do let them exist? In Sao Paulo they banned billboards a long time…
Collingwood Needs a Communications Director and Plan
Yesterday, the Town of Collingwood sent out an email trying to rationalize the town’s budget and tax increase. That release underscores in so many ways why townhall desperately needs both…
My latest: it ain’t working, Hamas-fans. At all.
In less than a week, we’ve seen them disrupting the Mayor’s skate party. We’ve seen them scream curses and epithets at the regular folks there. We’ve seen them intimidating an…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 9, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Toronto police chief apologizes after video of cops carrying coffee at protest sparks outrage #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews http://tinyurl.com/y4j5kxn3 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
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…
Despair is the currency of massacre
All Out for Gaza demonstration in Montréal, Tuesday, October 17, 2023. Photo by Lital Khaikin. “More than 20,000 Palestinians have perished in the new war,” reads a newspaper photo caption…
It’s time for Canadian environmental groups to talk about war as an act of climate denial
An airburst of artillery-fired white phosphorus over Gaza City. Photo by Mahmud Hams/Al-Haq. Three months after Israel started bombing Gaza in retaliation against Hamas, Palestine is being converted to rubble…