#LegalTweetoftheDay: Corporal Punishment in Private Schools Is Outlawed in New York #law #legal #lawtwitter via @nytimes https://tinyurl.com/mr28v4v2 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
The Continued Arrogance of Brian Saunderson Our gormless backbencher CONservative MPP, Brian Saunderson, recently exposed his egregious arrogance in a comment to CollingwoodToday about the province again burdening municipalities by…
Cory Doctorow’s novel For the Win may have been the most unexpected title on my Labour Book Club booklist. It’s kind of science fiction (but not really), kind of YA…
In Canada, more than $100 billion is now being spent to expand fossil fuel production. Meanwhile, other nations are working to mitigate climate change and enable long-term human survival. For…
This week’s #FlashbackFriday post is from January 13, 2010 via Wise Law Blog: U.S. Supreme Court Extends Camera Ban at California Gay Marriage Trial https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2010/01/us-supreme-court-extends-camara-ban-at.html – Garry J. Wise, Toronto…
Changing minds on big issues takes a long time and the work never ends. Anti-drinking and driving groups appeared in the early 1980s, like MADD, typically made up of survivors…
Lots of chatter about this New South Wales comms hit and miss: From Dr. David Berger, “As the ninth Covid wave grows, NSW Health doesn’t say ‘wear masks’. It says,…
It seems to be a universal quest these days. Whether country, province or municipality, we are desperately in need of effective leadership. I feel embarrassed that I bitched about Jason…
Until I read Tom Friedman’s column in the New York Times, I didn’t understand what was happening in the Israel-Hamas War – particularly why so many people around the world…
Today, charts about BC Hydro showing information that ought to alarm citizens of British Columbia. It will not of course, because corporate media does not bother to report meaningful data…
With disputes and condemnations over coverage of the mayhem in Gaza, it is worth considering the ethics of journalism. Whether or not generally accepted rules are followed by media is…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – William Ripple et al. offer a new and alarming state of the climate report. And Damian Carrington delves into their findings as…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Hamilton man convicted of filming women at gym, uploading videos to Pornhub gets 15 months behind bars #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/ev57knyk – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit…
Photo by Anas Alsharif/Atlantic Palestinian Society Consider the boy in the rubble. There can be no excuse, of course. In the early morning of Saturday, October 7, 2023, well-organized Hamas…
I have never been much of a joiner. I never really participated in team sports, committees (unless I had no choice), or group endeavours. There is something about the passionate…
Mark Jaccard, recently appointed Chair and CEO of the BC Utilities Commission, argued in 20017 for Site C, when BC could have stopped the project and saved about $15 billion.…
A Last Will only determines what happens to your property after you have passed. A Power of Attorney is used to appoint someone to manage your property and your medical…
The Republicans finally have a Speaker of the House — someone they all voted for, someone nobody knows anything about. The internal communications of Republicans reveal a lot about who…
