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Legal News Post of the Day: May 27, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Hudson's Bay to lay off more than 8,300 employees by June 1 #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/tySm2J3iBq - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
New Covid Strain Causing Razor Blade Throat
Several news venues have been reporting on Covid in the last few days. An ABC News headline says: "Why are more than 300 people in the US still dying from…
New Covid Strain Causing Razor Blade Throat
Several news venues have been reporting on Covid in the last few days. An ABC News headline says: "Why are more than 300 people in the US still dying from…
Wise Law’s Employment #LawFact of the Day: Discrimination in the workplace #law #legal #wrongfuldismissal #termination
Ontario employers are prohibited from discrimination in the workplace against any employee.Employers may not discriminate on the basis of- Race- Religion- Citizenship- Gender- Sexual Orientation or Identification- Disability- AgeIf you…
Today’s Quotes – Carney promises "We will prevail" & King Charles is cheered "Rock on,🤴Chuck!🍻"
There were a couple of memorable quotes in today's news. The first one was in the speech that Prime Minister Carney gave in the House:Hey, I'm starting to love ChatGPT…
Bedevilled by scandal and measles, UCP tries to gin up a moral panic about racy picture books in school libraries
There’s never a bad time for a scandal-ridden right-wing government like Alberta’s United Conservative Party to try to gin up a moral panic over books with dirty pictures in school…
Naheed Nenshi, NDP leader, to get chance to win seat in Alberta Legislature on June 23
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has finally called a by-election in Edmonton Strathcona, four months after NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi was acclaimed as the Opposition party’s candidate in the riding long…
Royal visit perpetuating deference to unaccountable power
King Charles and Queen Camilla waving from the balcony of Buckingham Palace following their coronation service. Photo courtesy HM Government/Wikimedia Commons. As Victoria Day memories fade, mon...
My latest: Jew hatred comes from the Left
Does antisemitism come from the Left or the Right? In truth, Jew-hatred is a shape-shifter. It isn’t practiced by one ideology – it’s embraced, at different moments in history, by…
Legal News Post of the Day: May 26, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Toronto passes bylaw to restrict protests around places of worship, schools #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://bit.ly/4kziK65 - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
TD Bank Money Laundering
I think many people are familiar with HSBC doing something bad like this, but TD Bank is especially disappointing as I’ve used them all my banking life.
Recognizing Bias and Deceptive Journalism
The Telegraph published this piece of drivel decrying the number of "biological males" who undergo gender reassignment surgery (GRS) in the UK. It's trash journalism at its worst, but it…
Recognizing Bias and Deceptive Journalism
The Telegraph published this piece of drivel decrying the number of "biological males" who undergo gender reassignment surgery (GRS) in the UK. It's trash journalism at its worst, but it…
A tiny spit of history
Some cartoons that caused trouble. flipboard.com/@grunge/political-cartoons-that-lost-people-their-jobs-376bgue22jh9qr3p
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of May 26, 2025
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 26, 2025 from Wise Law on Twitter:Trump Has His Law Firms Right Where He Wants ThemBoth Coutts blockade leaders…
What if Julian Jaynes Was Right?
In 1977, Princeton University psychologist Julian Jaynes published his controversial book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Hardly a title that should have captured the…
On Moral Injury
A moral injury is a severe stress reaction following the experience of an event or a recurrence of situations that contradict an individual’s moral beliefs. Moral injury is characterized by…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Doug Cuthand offers a reminder that the need for forward-thinking climate action hasn't been reduced just because any discussion of the possibility has…