#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: GM to lay off 700 workers at Oshawa plant, citing U.S. tariffs: union president #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/O5jur5m3Z9 - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
I think Theo Moudakis captures the Canadian zeitgeist here, don't you think?Recommend this Post
Wise Law's Employment #LawFact of the Day: Common Law Entitlements Upon Termination #law #legal #wrongfuldismissal #terminationDo employees have different severance entitlements under the Employment Standards Act in wrongful dismissal cases…
Just in time for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s meeting with Donald Trump in Washington, the U.S. Census Bureau has released year-end 2024 data on America’s bilateral trade flows in goods…
May 5 is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit+ People (MMIWG2S+) Red River Métis artist and activist Jaime Black founded the REDress…
After dealing herself a weak hand by making assumptions that turned out to be disastrously wrong, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith sat down for her weirdly timed mid-afternoon video address to…
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre. Photo courtesy Pierre Poilievre/X. How did the Conservative Party lose an election defined by nationalism? Traditionally, it is conservative parties t...
The quick answer is likely not; while the long-winded one is that our history says otherwise. In 1984, if you are as old as I, you may know that the…
Newsflash: Kansas City is a hidden gem. This is actually a really cool city, and I would love to spend more time here. This is totally unexpected!We had a slow…
Newsflash: Kansas City is a hidden gem. This is actually a really cool city, and I would love to spend more time here. This is totally unexpected!We had a slow…
I’m old enough to have lived through both Quebec referendums (to date) on sovereignty, and I’ve watched the sleazy grievance politics of “Western Alienation” attempting to ape Quebec’s situation. I…
I’m old enough to have lived through both Quebec referendums (to date) on sovereignty, and I’ve watched the sleazy grievance politics of “Western Alienation” attempting to ape Quebec’s situation. I…
Good morning! Today marks the 10th anniversary of the election of an NDP government in Alberta in an Orange Wave that came as a surprise to many and a shock…
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Jason Furman discusses how Donald Trump's economic obsessions are in fundamental conflict with one another - meaning that the only result of trying to…
Canadian and other non-US readers might not realize that Kansas City is in the state of Missouri. There is also a small, less famous Kansas City in Kansas, just over…
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 5, 2025 from Wise Law on Twitter:Ontario looking to fast-track judicial appointments, add more judges to courtsPeace Bridge duty-free…
Discarded drug use paraphernalia on the streets of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Photo by Ted McGrath/Flickr. Late last year the British Columbia NDP narrowly defeated the Conservatives i...
“Trumpland USA.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The Christian fascists and oligarchs gleefully handing Donald Trump his sharpie and executive orders are not making war on the deep state, ...
I will miss the Star Wars socks:Trudeau ran for the leadership at just the right time, in 2013, when the Liberal Party was flailing and failing. And he left at…
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Jason Hickel discusses how capitalism is fundamentally in conflict with the idea of democracy - and how increasing democratic control over the economy…
