Justices of the peace, constables, and game wardens from the late 19th century are brought to vivid life interacting with a variety of accused citizens. Rare views of human lives in turmoil are revealed in several hundred trials...
Law materials
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Author:Boyer, J. Patrick, Greenspan, Edward L., McMurtry, RoySummary: - Author:Durisin, Elya M., van der Meulen, Emily, Bruckert, ChrisSummary:
In 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in Canada v. Bedford that key prostitution laws were unconstitutional. Red Light Labour addresses the new legal regime regulating sex work by analyzing how laws and those who uphold them have...
- Author:Public Legal Education Association of SaskatchewanSummary:
This booklet reviews the legal rights and duties of tenants and landlords in Saskatchewan and provides information about resolving disputes.
Please note: the rights and duties of tenants and landlords are significantly difference...
- Author:Tunnicliffe, JenniferSummary:
From 1948 to 1966, the United Nations worked to create a common legal standard for human rights protection around the globe. Resisting Rights analyzes the Canadian government's changing policy toward this endeavour from the 1940s...
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Rights and the City takes stock of rights struggles and progress in cities by exploring the tensions that exist between different concepts of rights. Sandeep Agrawal and the volume's contributors expose the paradoxes that planners and...
- Author:Boyd, David R.Summary:
Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand's Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes, a movement of immense import...
- Author:Batten, JackSummary:
Ross Mackay, The Saga of a Brilliant Criminal Lawyer is great fit for people who love Perry Mason's courtroom drama and Better Call Saul's criminal subculture. Two murder trials were held in Toronto in the spring of 1962, only nineteen...
- Author:Sirove, TarynSummary:
In the 1980s, the Ontario Board of Censors began to subject media artists' work to the same cuts, bans, and warning labels as commercial film. This innovative exploration of how art and law intersected in the ensuing censor wars...
- Author:Stone, Carrie, Culhane, John G.Summary:
Grasp the latest legal information for gay and lesbian couples Same-sex relationships are treated differently under each state's laws, and nearly a quarter of the U.S. population lives in a state with some form of legal recognition...
- Author:Puddister, KateSummary:
Can Parliament legalize same-sex marriage? Can Quebec unilaterally secede from Canada? Can the federal government create a national firearms registry? Each of these questions is contentious and deeply political, and each was addressed...
- Author:Minch, Candice, Gunn, Rita F.Summary:
An analysis of sexual assault as it affects the victim and the assailant in the Canadian justice system.
- Author:Craig, Wallace GilbySummary:
The author recounts with warmth, humour and insight, his journey from the family shack in Vancouver to a downtown law practice and twenty-six years on the bench of the Vancouver criminal division of the provincial court. He has observed...
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The concept of environmental justice has evolved over the past two decades to offer a new direction for social movements, public policy, and public planning. Researchers worldwide now position social equity as a building block for...
- Author:Public Legal Education Association of SaskatchewanSummary:
Please note: legislation affecting adults in special-care homes may vary significantly from province to province. If you are looking for this information for a province other than Saskatchewan, please ...
- Author:Boghosian, HeidiSummary:
"Everyone of us is under the omniscient magnifying glass of the government and corporate spies... . How do we respond to this smog of surveillance' Start by reading Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power...
- Author:Hunt, Dallas, Starblanket, GinaSummary:
Storying Violence explores the 2018 murder of Colten Boushie and the subsequent trial of Gerald Stanley. Through an analysis of relevant socio-political narratives in the prairies and scholarship on settler colonialism, the authors...
- Author:Paddock, LisaSummary:
Gives you the scoop on how the Court reaches its decisions Get involved and track a case through the system This fun and easy guide demystifies the federal court system by describing what kinds of cases the justices hear, outlining how...
- Author:Dodek, Adam, McLachlin, The Right Honourable Beverley, Johnston Governor General of Canada, DavidSummary:
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016 A new, expanded edition of the first-ever primer on Canada’s Constitution — for anyone who wants to understand the supreme law of the land. The Canadian Constitution makes Canada’s Constitution...
- Author:Covell, Katherine, Howe, R. Brian, Blokhuis, J.C.Summary:
More than a quarter of a century has passed since Canada promised to recognize and respect the rights of children under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Ratification of the Convention cannot, however, guarantee...
- Author:Sandford, Robert William, Harford, Deborah, O'Riordan, Dr. JonSummary:
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies. The Columbia River Treaty ratification in 1964 created the largest hydropower project in North...
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