International Law

Canadian Woman Detained in Kenya Coming Home

Posted on August 11, 2009
We have a quick update to our post our July 19, 2009 post Is it Time to Update Your Passport Photo?The Toronto Star reports that Suaad Mohamud Haji, the young Canadian woman who was falsely detained in Kenya due to an old passport photo that apparently didn't look "enough" like her, will be soon returning to Canadian soil after DNA tests requested by her lawyer conclusively proved her identity...

Duck-shooting Video Prompts Arrests

Posted on August 10, 2009
The Vancouver Sun reports that three men were arrested in Saskatchewan after a YouTube video showed them shooting ducklings.The video that was posted last week shows a group of young men driving around in a car, shooting ducklings illegally and allegedly breaking several wildlife and firearms laws in the process...

Dangerous Rhetoric

Posted on August 07, 2009
Limbaugh, again:- 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

Worth Knowing

Posted on August 07, 2009
N.Y. Times:Together, China and the United States account for about 40 percent of pollutants linked to climate change.- 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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Tampa: Health Reform Town Hall Marred by Violence

Posted on August 07, 2009
Huffington Post: Police officers were called to calm down an unruly crowd outside a health care reform town hall meeting in downtown Tampa, Florida on Thursday evening, according to local news reports.Angry protesters screamed, yelled and banged on windows as officers hurried to guard the entrances to the facility, where U...

Balsillie Back in Coyote Hunt

Posted on August 07, 2009
Research in Motion owner Jim Balsillie appears to be very much back in the game after a ruling Wednesday by U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Redfield T. Baum.Judge Baum held that all bids to purchase the Phoenix Coyotes will be considered in a September 10th auction of the team, including bids by prospective owners who intend to move the team outside the Phoenix market...

Twitter, Facebook Attack Targeted Single User

Posted on August 07, 2009
Quite amazingly, much of the world's social media infrastructure was brought to its knees Thursday by a denial of service attack that was aimed at silencing one Georgian blogger. CNET News reports:A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial of service attack that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive...

The Twitter Theme Song (by John Denver)

Posted on August 07, 2009
Follow me where I go, what I do and who I knowMake it part of you to be a part of meFollow me up and down, all the way and all aroundTake my hand and say youll follow meGlad to see Twitter is apparently back after a rough Thursday.- Garry J. Wise, TorontoVisit our Toronto Law Firm website: www...

Rachel's Bits and Briefs

Posted on August 07, 2009
A few brief notes to take us into the weekend...Harper Backed by Premiers vs. 'Buy American' Policy The nation's provincial Premiers have united to back Prime Minister Stephen Harper?s fight against the protectionist trade policies being implemented in the U...

Recently Tweeted - August 5 Edition

Posted on August 05, 2009
Here are some of our more interesting Wise Law Tweets from the last week:USA: Rate of death threats against Obama at 30 per day - up 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under "W" -http://tiny.cc/WiseLaw780Ontario Judge nixes suit by winner's friend for lottery share:"During this trial,truth was only an occasional visitor"http://tiny...

Ontario Drivers' Cell Phone Ban Likely in Effect in October

Posted on August 02, 2009
Ontario's "no talking while driving" law will likely come into effect in October 2009, according to a July 27th report in Market News, an electronics industry journal that interviewed Jim Bradley, Ontario's Minister of Transportation:It's official....

Teachable Moments and Lessons Unlearned

Posted on August 02, 2009
New York Times columnist, Bob Herbert, hits the nail on the head on Gatesgate - Anger Has Its Place:No more than five or six minutes elapsed from the time the police were alerted to the possibility of a break-in at a home in a quiet residential neighborhood and the awful clamping of handcuffs on the wrists of the distinguished Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr...

Will Twitter Revolutionize Professional Sports?

Posted on August 02, 2009
Washington Post writer Rick Maese takes an intriguing look at how professional athletes' increasing use of Twitter to communicate directly with fans will change everything: For the first time, fans aren't dependent on media reports for training camp updates...

Texas Judge Uses Facebook, Explores Social Media Ethics for Judiciary, Lawyers

Posted on August 01, 2009
ABA Journal profiles Susan Criss, Galveston, Texas Facebook user and State Court Judge,:The judge's near-breathless accounts of questionable online activity by members of the bench and bar had many in the audience wondering whether Facebook, Twitter and their ilk are worth the headache...

Did Corporate Execs Force Truce on O'Reilly and Olbermann?

Posted on August 01, 2009
A New York Times article contends that News Corp. and General Electric executives imposed an end to the vaunted cable news feud between Fox's Bill O'Reilly and MSNBC's Keith Olbermann:?For this war to stop, it meant fewer headaches on the corporate side,? one employee said...

Meet The Real John Doe

Posted on July 29, 2009
He really exists...- 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 U.K. Law Lords' Last Hurrah

Posted on July 29, 2009
Times Online on the U.K.'s shift from ther Hopuse of Lords to a new Supreme Court:Today the law lords sit to give judgment for the last time in the House of Lords and, as Lord Hope of Craighead said there last week, the upper chamber will be ?losing part of itself?...

Quotable: Silvergate on Gates and Crowley and Freedom of Speech

Posted on July 29, 2009
Cambridge, Massachusetts First Amendment lawyer, Harvey A. Silvergate at Forbes Magazine, on Citizen Gates and Officer Crowley:...Put more simply, why do we as a society so often ignore traditional notions of First Amendment freedom to speak one's own notion of truth to power when one party to the confrontation is wearing a uniform, a badge and a gun?Some of the media commentary is quite remarkable, replete with claims that Crowley had a right to arrest Gates because the professor was loud and offensive...

Recently Tweeted

Posted on July 29, 2009
Some of our recent Wise Law Tweets for your viewing pleasures:Microsoft, Yahoo team up to ding Google with Bing -http://tiny.cc/WiseLaw439Candid' Madoff explained fraud - http://tiny.cc/WiseLaw564Mayor David Miller: Toronto workers can return once deal ratified -http://tiny...

Apology Lessons from Amazon CEO

Posted on July 28, 2009
So, this is what an actual, public apology sounds like:Jeffrey P. Bezos says:This is an apology for the way we previouslyhandled illegally sold copies of 1984 and other novels on Kindle. Our "solution" to the problem was stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with our principles...

Sore Losers

Posted on July 28, 2009
Former Bush speechwriter David Frum pushes back against neocon criticism of Obama in Quit Whining 2:It is also to act and look like sore losers. If America has been sliding gently but irresistibly into soft despotism, where were all the valiant defenders of liberty before November of 2008? Soft despotism begins to look less like a profound sociological trend, more like undulations of the sine curve: It?s despotism when we lose, freedom when we win...

World's Most Livable Cities: Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary in Top Ten

Posted on July 27, 2009
From The Economist, via Toronto Marketing Blog: Three Canadian Cities at Top Of Livability Survey- 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

Another Reason Why Mandatory Family Law Mediation is a Good Idea

Posted on July 27, 2009
Divorce hurts health even after remarriage- 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: Visiting John Yoo's Law School Classroom

Posted on July 23, 2009
John Yoo, the legal architect of the Bush "enhanced interrogation" regime receives a visitor to his Tax Law class at Chapman University School of Law in Orange County, California: - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw...

Charles Doherty Gonthier, August 1, 1928 ? July 16, 2009

Posted on July 20, 2009
The Supreme Court of Canada today released the following statement on the passing of a former Justice of the Court, Charles Doherty Gonthier:OTTAWA, July 20, 2009 ? The Honourable Charles Doherty Gonthier, formerly a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, passed away in Montreal, Quebec, on July 17, 2009...

Stop Motion

Posted on July 19, 2009
Your Sunday feel-good video:(h/t - David Silverberg)- 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

Rachel's Bits and Briefs

Posted on July 19, 2009
Here are a few notes for the weekend:Ontario Criminal Lawyers' Legal Aid Boycott ExpandsAn Ontario Legal Aid boycott by criminal lawyers has now expanded to reach Kingston and Thunder Bay, reports the Law Times. The Criminal Lawyers Association (CLA) is organizing quickly in to effect change to a legal aid program that it argues has been ?broken for over 20 years...

Dealing With Antiques On Marital Breakdown

Posted on July 19, 2009
A recent decision of the Supreme Court of British Columbia confirms that trying to predict how a judge with deal with the division of antiques upon marital breakdown is futile, and that it?s best to resolve at least that one issue outside of the courtroom...

The Case That Perry Mason Lost

Posted on July 18, 2009
Judge Sonia Sotomayor may have been stumped by Senator Al Franken's question about the one case that Perry Mason "lost," but with the help of Google, we at Wise Law Blog are not.Here, then, is the verdict from The Case of the Deadly Verdict (10/17/1963):Mr...

LawPRO Webinar on Fraud Against Lawyers Now Online

Posted on July 18, 2009
Dan Pinnington of LawPRO has posted the following notice at Slaw that will be of interest to Ontario lawyers: On May 26 LAWPRO put on a special webinar aimed at helping lawyers to avoid being the victims of fraud. It was hosted and broadcast by the Ontario Bar Association...

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