More than a month has passed since Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro promised the government would pay the province’s health care aides a $2-per-hour coronavirus-crisis top-up — and there’s still…
At a time when access to accurate, well-informed and well-researched information is crucial, it is probably not surprising that there are bad actors who promote disinformation. After all, chaos, their…
In this episode of “In Conversation With…” Kerry Cassanova, President of Micronova Software Solutions Inc, joins Wise Law’s Garry J. Wise to discuss the ease of migrating your law practice…
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 19, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Air Canada temperature checks raise privacy concerns, experts say Top Roger Stone…
With the exception of his mindless cheerleaders and coterie of sycophants, it is obvious to the world that Donald Trump has led the United States into a steep, perhaps irreversible,…
Covid-19 upended everything. No one knows whether the world will snap back to “normal” like an elastic band or be gone forever. Economists, futurists, and historians are all over the…
Alberta’s so-called Fair Deal Panel, which might have seemed like a good idea when Premier Jason Kenney announced it last fall, presents something of a political problem for a government…
Yesterday I offered, shall we say, an unflattering appraisal of the American ‘character’ and psyche. Further evidence supporting that assessment is to be found in the following video: Perhaps those…
Does anyone remember the $2-million “review” of Alberta Health Services by Ernst & Young launched a year ago by the United Conservative Party Government? Health Minister Tyler Shandro and Alberta…
A man wearing a facemask sits on the subway. Photo by Jacques Paquier/Flickr. This is the second in a seven-part, multi-week series of commentary on the COVID-19 crisis entitled WHAT…
One of the benefits (and, to be honest, drawbacks) of having a blog is the freedom it confers on the owner. He or she can write on a range of…
WHO wants people to be aware that there’s no assured victory against COVID-19. I still think it’s possible to eradicate it, but it will take a global effort that surpasses…
With friends like Drew Barnes, does the United Conservative Party really need enemies in these troubles times? The right-wing Frankenparty may have won the 2019 provincial election convincingly soon after…
A recent poll of Canadian students aged 10-17 found that, “When it comes to online classes, most say they’re keeping up (75%) but are largely unmotivated (60%) and disliking the…
In the past 36 days, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador has reported no new cases of CVD-19 on 21 of them. Three weeks worth of zero. More than a…
140Law: Here are our Top 10 legal headlines for the week of May 11, 2020. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on May…
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 11, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: UPDATED: Everything you need to know about CERB, EI and income support…
The New York Times reported yesterday how the coronavirus crisis is prodding a wave of mostly progressive American physicians to enter politics. Many are women and most have connected the…
At last count there have been 1,550 Covid-19 infections and three deaths connected with the Cargill, JBS and Harmony Beef meatpacking plants in Alberta. This is frightening in a province…
In my previous post I wrote about reading during the lockdown, particularly delving into some longer reads like War and Peace. This time gives us ample opportunity to tackle books…
