Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- David Lurie discusses how Donald Trump is making flagrant corruption and theft legal for himself and his cronies, while inventing specious excuses to…
Wise Law’s Employment #LawFact of the Day: The Duty to Accommodate Disability in the Workplace #law #legal #wrongfuldismissal #termination
Every Ontario employer has a duty to accommodate an employee's disability up to the point of undue hardship.An employee is however responsible for requesting the accommodation and providing the employer…
Carney is moving fast and fixing things
The motto of Facebook used to be "move fast and break things". But really, folks -- that sounds cute but it doesn't actually work out very well, as XKCD says…
What next? UCP takes to reading Yours Truly in The Tyee, quoting lefty bloggers in press release
In Ontario last week on union business, your blogger was startled to discover the United Conservative Party had quoted his recent post commenting on recent polling results by Janet Brown…
Chris Hedges: the last days of Gaza
“The Last Piece.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. This is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon. Weeks. At most. Two million people are…
Just asking questions
Why is it always about me?
It’s hammer time
Just a jump to the right… #DougFord #onpoli #bill5 #bill6
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- David Moscrop writes about the difficulty in trying to respond to a news stream constantly filled with horrors without breaking down. George Monbiot discusses…
Monday funny stuff: TrumpWatch, AmericaWatch, some Canada posts, other odds and sods, some beautiful stuff, and Animal Crackers
This week in TrumpWatch: Remember what happened to Anwar Sadat at his parade in 1981?!?! #Resist #NoKings #TACO #DeportElon ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼— So Cal Beer Guy (@socalbeerman.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 12:51…
Legal News Post of the Day: June 9, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Trump Administration Says National Guard Will Be Deployed to L.A. Protests #law #legal #legalnews via @nytimes https://t.co/XXxjmUOmnL - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
what i’m reading: two by two favourite authors: part two: zadie smith’s the fraud
In an earlier post, I mentioned that I recently read novels by two of my favourite authors, Roddy Doyle and Zadie Smith. I wrote about The Women Behind the Door…
what i’m reading: two by two favourite authors: part two: zadie smith’s the fraud
In an earlier post, I mentioned that I recently read novels by two of my favourite authors, Roddy Doyle and Zadie Smith. I wrote about The Women Behind the Door…
Wise Law’s Top 10 Legal News Post for the Week of June 9, 2025
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of June 9, 2025
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of June 9, 2025 from Wise Law on Twitter:Ontario signs deals with Saskatchewan, P.E.I. and Alberta to reduce trade barriers US…
Tin soldiers and Trump is coming…
...but back in the day, Nixon was a lot scarier than Trump: LAPD Chief McDonnell when asked if National Guard is needed: “This thing has gotten out of control.” Everything…
Danielle Smith has news for the people of Canada: you have ‘the lowest living standards in the world’
I’ve been writing these little meditations on the state of politics in Alberta now longer than it takes an infant to grow old enough to vote and in that time…
Bursting the bubble (zone): Resisting Toronto’s anti-protest bylaw
Rally in Toronto organized by Toronto4Palestine, October 28, 2023. Photo by Sikander Iqbal/Wikimedia Commons. Toronto’s new bubble zone anti-protest mechanism, officially known as the “Access to...
Back From La Belle Province
Travel, as they say, broadens one's perspective, and even though I am getting long in the tooth, I am still open to learning things. One impression I take from our…
Sunday Congratulations
Congrats to Kelly Cup champs the Trois-Rivières Lions and MVP goalie Luke Cavallin, whose playoff numbers were killer. .948 save % and 1.53 avg. Equal congrats to 18-year-old Summer McIntosh…