Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Matthew Rosza reports on the continued toll of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, including over 1,000 deaths per week in the U.S. alone along…
Legal Tweet of the Day: December 8, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Texas Judge Grants Woman’s Request for Abortion #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://tinyurl.com/5n93p4d3 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
A Solution for Housing Shortages
Proposed US Legislation Aims to Remove Wall Street from Main Street. Why isn’t this happening in Canada? The post A Solution for Housing Shortages first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Pavlovian Dogs
I sometimes think, in my more cynical and dark moments, that our species really has not evolved very much beyond our tribal roots. Examine our collective deportment today, and it…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from June 19, 2009
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from June 19, 2009 via Wise Law Blog: Ontario Court Nixes CIBC Overtime Class Action http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2009/06/ontario-court-nixes-cibc-overtime-class.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
How Shallow These Mortals Be.
It tells a story. All by itself, once more, the talent of Time magazine comes to the fore. It tells tales of these terrible times. Yet it ignores the wars,…
Expect Rachel Notley, NDP premier from 2025 to 2019 and current Opposition leader, to step down today
Look for Opposition Leader Rachel Notley, NDP premier of Alberta from 2015 until 2019, to step aside today. After her election victory in May 2015, Ms. Notley proved to be…
Chinese at the border
Perhaps the most famous border in the world is the one along the Rio Grande that separates Mexico from the United States. It is almost certainly the most popular. U.S.…
A year later and things are very different in Moscow
Russian military recruitment poster in the streets of Saratov. Photo by Gulmira Amangaliyeva/openDemocracy. I used to have some respect for elements of the Western media. While that respect has eroded…
Sun Media video: anti-Semitism, everywhere
Watch here.
On the Mayor’s Motion to Disband the Elected Park Board
Here is my statement:It is unfortunate that the current mayor doesn't seem to appreciate representative democracy. The government closest to the people is often the most important. Nothing is closer…
On the Mayor’s Motion to Disband the Elected Park Board
Here is my statement:It is unfortunate that the current mayor doesn't seem to appreciate representative democracy. The government closest to the people is often the most important. Nothing is closer…
On the Mayor’s Motion to Disband the Elected Park Board
Here is my statement: It is unfortunate that the current mayor doesn’t seem to appreciate representative democracy. The government closest to the people is often the most important. Nothing is…
We Can’t Get There From Here
The thing about deciding to write a story set in the future is what to make of the present and how it creates a trajectory of plausible events, scenarios, and…
We Can’t Get There From Here
The thing about deciding to write a story set in the future is what to make of the present and how it creates a trajectory of plausible events, scenarios, and…
We Can’t Get There From Here
The thing about deciding to write a story set in the future is what to make of the present and how it creates a trajectory of plausible events, scenarios, and…
Israel Is A Study In Collective Trauma
Israel, as a state, was formed as a Jewish state. As such it was formed with the collective generational traumas that Jewish people have experienced over centuries, and in particular…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Adam King discusses how governments and employers have memory-holed some of the most important lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic as to the…
Replacing to Sovereignty Act so soon? Danielle Smith’s belligerent statement vows new attack on federal power
VICTORIA, B.C. – Is Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party Government now planning to introduce a new, tougher Sovereignty Act to fight Ottawa’s proposed emissions regulations? Alberta Environment Minister…
Legal Tweet of the Day: December 7, 2023
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Ontario has a rental housing enforcement unit. It investigates a fraction of cases and fines even fewer #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/ybenvpmu – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit…