International Law

Facebook in the Workplace

Posted on October 16, 2008
I haven't written about Facebook for a while, probably because the novelty largely wore off quite some time ago.Nonetheless, Facebook's place in the workplace remains a recurring theme in employment law circles.A comprehensive article from Australian lawyer Nick Abrahams considers the risks of permissive workplace social networking policies, but nonethless, argues against Facebook bans...

Pundits Weigh In On Obama's Third Presidential Debate Win

Posted on October 16, 2008
A good collection of commentaries here. More here, including this gem from David Von Drehle of Time:"McCain Threw the Sink ? and Plumber ? But Obama Doesn't Falter" The problem for McCain is that no matter how hard or how crisply he punched, it could not last...

Will Stephane Dion Step Down as Liberal Leader?

Posted on October 16, 2008
CBC says he may do it today: Dion planning to quit, report says - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

Video: "The Base"

Posted on October 16, 2008
Leave it to Al Jazeera to profile the Republican base:As the US presidential campaign enters its final weeks, both the Republican and Democratic candidates are hitting the swing states. But misconceptions and rumours abound and many voters have their facts about the candidates all wrong...

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Canada's Election - What Does it Mean?

Posted on October 15, 2008
A few random thoughts on yesterday's Canadian election, which returned Stephen Harper's Conservatives to Ottawa with another minority government:Canada is by and large a centre-progressive country according to the popular vote. The nation's centre-left, however, now finds itself in the same electoral predicament that daunted the fractured right during the Chrétien era...

Vote Canada

Posted on October 14, 2008
For information on where you will be able to vote, go to this Elections Canada voter information site and input your postal code.- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

The Race Card in America

Posted on October 13, 2008
See the evidence here. It is appalling.Beyond that, I have no interest in describing it.(Source: Seeing the Forest).......UPDATE: The offending graphic has been removed for "objectionable content" from its original post location, but has been reproduced and preserved here (at the same weblog) along with an "explanation" for its "removal...

"Break their Backs and Crush their Spirit"

Posted on October 13, 2008
O.K., so maybe Markos does get a bit carried away with himself sometimes...I've been making the case the last couple of weeks that we can't just focus on winning in November, but that we have an imperative to take advantage of a historic opportunity to break the conservative movement's backs and crush their spirits...

Freedom of Speech in America

Posted on October 12, 2008
... still alive and well:- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

Weekend Acoustic Interlude

Posted on October 10, 2008
And what a week it was....Wall Street had its worst tumble ever - barely a week after U.S. taxpayers poured a trillion dollars into propping it up. Stephen Harper's long-awaited dive in the polls materialized from thin air as Stephane Dion finally found his voice - and Canada began to listen...

Donna Brazile - Watch this Video

Posted on October 09, 2008
From Jezebel.com.H/t Andrew Sullivan- Garry J. Wise, TorontoVisit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

Too Strange

Posted on October 08, 2008
"My fellow prisoners...?"- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

Attorney General: Ontario to Enact Apology Act

Posted on October 07, 2008
From CTV:TORONTO -- Legislation that would allow people to offer apologies without fear of having that used against them in court, making it easier to say sorry when a wrong has been committed, will be introduced in Ontario, the province said Tuesday...

"Pallin' Around" With Alaskan Successionists

Posted on October 07, 2008
Following up on my earlier post today, Swift-Boat or be Swift-Boated, it looks like the McCain-Palin team is about to get the discussion it wanted: Update:... and this, too:Palin held fundraiser at home of troubled financial services execBut to be fair to Palin, her fundraiser host was only at the helm of a company that was fined $75 million by the SEC for questionable trading practices...

Hockey Anthem Finalists Online

Posted on October 07, 2008
The submissions of CBC's five Hockey Anthem Challenge finalists are now online.Check them out. Numbers 1 and 4 get my nod.For those of us in Toronto Maple Leaf - land, the music had better be good, because what we're seeing on the ice probably won't be getting us on our feet very much...

Swift-Boat or Be Swift-Boated: U.S. Dems Fight Back

Posted on October 07, 2008
The political nasty season has arrived in America.In a climate in which Barack Obama has been taunted as "pallin' around with terrorists" by the Republican Party's Vice-Presidential nominee, a well-organized Democratic counter-assault appears to be materializing...

Towed Car Ticketed by Traffic-Cam for Speeding

Posted on October 06, 2008
Here's a gem from Overlawyered: The traffic camera automatically recorded the license plate of the vehicle going too fast, so the owner (in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa) was automatically mailed a ticket. The only problem: the vehicle was being towed by a tow truck at the time...

Conservative Deregulation and Listeria

Posted on October 06, 2008
Sometimes, I wonder whether 'deregulation' is just a nicely-spun euphemism for negligence-in-waiting.I'm not just talking about Wall Street, here.A report today from CBC suggests that deregulation of Canada's food safety inspection procedures my have precluded early detection of the deadly listeria outbreak that has now taken the lives of at least 20 Canadians...

Gwen Ifill: Palin "Blew Me Off..."

Posted on October 05, 2008
An annoyed Ifill tells Meet the Press: "The understanding was that we were going to have a debate..."(h/t: Think Progress)- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

Canadian Election Race Tightening

Posted on October 05, 2008
According to at least one new poll, Canada's October 14th federal election may well be turning into a horse race, after all.Scott Tribe points to a current CPAC-Nanos Daily Election Tracking poll with the numbers for the period ending October 4:Conservative Party: 34 %Liberal Party: 30 %NDP: 19 %Bloc Quebecois: 10 %Green Party: 7 %And, over at Macleans, even Andrew Coyne says The Tories are in Trouble...

John McCain Has Gotham City Worried

Posted on October 05, 2008
The Republican nominee does his best Burgess Meredith imitation yet, as the Penguin goes to Washington... - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

Will O.J. Simpson's 'Past' Be A Factor in Judge's Sentencing?

Posted on October 05, 2008
A fascinating discussion at Volokh: Could O.J.'s Sentence for Robbery Take Into Account His Killings? And given this finding about Simpson's past conduct and therefore his moral character, the judge would be legally allowed to impose a higher sentence than he would on a typical robber, burglar, or what have you...

Video: Bruce Springsteen - Rising For Obama at Philadelphia

Posted on October 05, 2008
More photos and video here, here, and here.- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

Economist: A "Revaluation of the US"

Posted on September 23, 2008
From today's Washington Post: The dollar took its steepest one-day drop in years as the financial crisis eroded the nation's basic measure of value, helping to drive U.S. stocks sharply lower and the dollar-based prices of oil and gold sharply higher ...

"Confessions of a Sub-Prime Mortgage Baron"

Posted on September 21, 2008
From The Guardian's interview with Richard Bitner, "co-founder and president of Kellner Mortgage Investments, a firm which specialised in providing high-risk loans:"As a sub-prime mortgage lender, Richard Bitner has not done too badly. He lives in a huge mock Tudor house in a wooded suburb on the edge of Dallas, complete with miniature turrets, an oversize fireplace and wood-panelling...

Obama: Fire the Whole "Trickle Down" Lot

Posted on September 18, 2008
Associated press reporter Terence Hunt brings us these fighting words (at long last) from Barack Obama:Obama also heaped criticism and sarcasm on Republican rival John McCain and mocked his promise to fire the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission if elected president...

The Political Ad: A Case Study (Video)

Posted on September 13, 2008
A John McCain campaign ad, unwrapped, unplugged and debunked:- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

The Great Canadian Gas Price Mystery

Posted on September 12, 2008
Are we missing something here?September 12, 2008 CNN: Oil drops below $100NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Oil prices zig-zagged Friday, briefly dipping below $100 a barrel for the first time in 5 months, as the the fury of a massive hurricane blowing toward refineries on the Texas coast countered ...

Turning on the President

Posted on September 12, 2008
Chris Matthews, yet another former Iraq War cheerleader, turns on President George Bush:From C&L- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

Sarah Palin on the Bush Doctrine - Video

Posted on September 12, 2008
"May I have a hint, please, Charlie:"- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

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