The Libraries Act provides the legal framework for public library service in Alberta. It defines the public library as a municipal service. It provides for the establishment of municipal library boards which manage library service for...
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Author:AlbertaSummary: - Author:Public Legal Education Association of SaskatchewanSummary:
Please note: legislation affecting older adults may vary significantly from province to province. If you are looking for this information for a province other than Saskatchewan, please contact NNELS...
- Author:Baum, Daniel J.Summary:
A understandable overview of the laws regarding euthanasia, end-of-life treatment, and medication of those who may be unable to decide for themselves if the treatment is necessary. Our bodies are ours to control, free from state...
- Author:BoireSummary:
Over a million people in the United States regularly smoke marijuana. Approximately 400,000 defendants each year are charged with the use, possession, sale, or cultivation of marijuana. MARIJUANA LAW describes how people can reduce the...
- Author:Semrau, Stanley, Gale, JudySummary:
Each murder trial brings its own tangle of evidence, legal parameters, medical factors, social circumstances, and personalities. The tangle gets trickier when we must keep in mind that: "A person shall not be criminally responsible...
- Author:McAdam, SylviaSummary:
Traditionally and through custom, nêhiyaw (Cree) laws are shared and passed down through the generations in the oral tradition, utilizing stories, songs, ceremonies, lands, waters, animals, land markings and other sacred rites...
- Author:Bigger, Philip J.Summary:
James Donovan was a larger-than-life figure who led a fascinatingly varied career, primarily as a negotiator on behalf of prisoners. In 1957 he became involved with defending the captured Russian spy Rudolf Abel, and then rapidly became...
- Author:Dummitt, Christopher, Sethna, ChristabelleSummary:
“There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation,” Pierre Elliott Trudeau told reporters. He was making the case for the most controversial of his proposed reforms to the Criminal Code, those concerning homosexuality, birth...
- Author:Villegas, Paloma E.Summary:
North of El Norteprovides an important counterpoint to the attention given to Mexican migration to the United States by examining a lesser-known migration route: that taken b by contemporary Mexican migrants to Canada. Paloma Villegas...
- Author:Lieberman, DebraSummary:
In Objection, psychologists Debra Lieberman and Carlton Patrick examine disgust and its impact on the legal system to show why the things that we find stomach-turning so often become the things that we render unlawful.
- Author:Public Legal Education Association of SaskatchewanSummary:
Please note: legislation affecting adults in retirement may vary significantly from province to province. If you are looking for this information for a province other than Saskatchewan, please contact...
- Author:Borrows, Lindsay KeegitahSummary:
Otter's Journey employs the Anishinaabe tradition of storytelling to explore how Indigenous language revitalization can inform the emerging field of Indigenous legal revitalization. Indigenous languages and laws need bodies to live in....
- Author:Hatch, Scott, Hatch, Lisa ZimmerSummary:
Apply important legal concepts and skills you need to succeed Get educated, land a job, and start making money now! Want a new career as a paralegal but don't know where to start? Relax! Paralegal Career For Dummies is the practical,...
- Author:Charmasson, Henry J.A., Buchaca, JohnSummary:
Useful tips and step-by-step guidance from filing to issue to license, acquire and protect your share of this major business asset. Want to secure and exploit the intellectual property rights due you or your company? This easy-to-follow...
- Author:Johnson, Harold R.Summary:
An urgent, informed, intimate condemnation of the Canadian state and its failure to deliver justice to Indigenous people by national bestselling author and former Crown prosecutor Harold R. Johnson. The night of the decision in the...
- Author:Scott, Tracie LeaSummary:
In 1999 the Nisga’a First Nation in northwestern British Columbia signed a landmark agreement which not only settled their land claim but outlined significant powers that could be exercised by its government. The Nisga’a Final Agreement...
- Author:Harris, Robert H.Summary:
Prime Example tells the story of the State of New York Department of Health versus Warren M Levin, MD. In the late 1980s the Commissioner of Health of New York was a very brilliant and morbidly depressed individual who suddenly got the...
- Author:Ziff, Bruce H.Summary:
This book lays the foundation for property-related areas, including real estate conveyancing and land registration, landlord and tenant law, estate planning and succession, trusts, equity and restitution, Aboriginal rights, bailments,...
- Author:Herivel, Tara, Wright, PaulSummary:
In Prison Profiteers, co-editors Tara Herivel and Paul Wright "follow the money to an astonishing constellation of prison administrators and politicians working in collusion with private parties to maximize profits" (Publishers Weekly...
- Author:Jochelson, Richard, Ireland, DavidSummary:
In 1984, the Supreme Court of Canada, in Hunter v Southam, declared warrantless searches unreasonable under section 8 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Police would henceforth require authorization based on "reasonable and...
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