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305.4
DRA
Dranoff,
Linda Silver. Women in Canadian law. Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside.
340.0971
FIT
Fitzgerald,
Patrick, 1928-. Looking at law: Canada's legal system. 2nd ed. Ottawa: Bybooks,
1982.
340.0971
FLY
Flynn,
William J., 1924-. A handbook of Canadian legal terminology. Rev. and updated.
Toronto: Stoddart, 1986.
340.0971
SPE
Spetz,
Steven N., 1940-. Take notice: an introduction to Canadian law. Rev. [ed.].
Toronto: Pitman, 1978.
345.5
JAR
Jarman,
Frederick E., 1945-. In pursuit of justice: issues in Canadian law. Toronto:
Wiley, 1976.
345.71
HUD
Hudson,
Joe. Justice and the young offender in Canada. Toronto:
Wall & Thompson, 1988.
346.71
COH
Cohl,
Karen, 1955-. Tort law. Toronto: I.P.I. Publishing, 1982.
346.7101
BAL
Bala,
Nicholas C. The child and the law. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, c1981.
347.71
LAW
Law,
politics and the judicial process in Canada. Calgary, AB University of Calgary,
c1984.
349.71
BAT
Batten,
Jack, 1932-. Everyday law. Toronto: K. Porter/L. Greey, c1987.
349.71
DRA
Dranoff,
Linda Silver. Everyone's guide to the law: a handbook for Canadians. Rev. ed.
Toronto: HarperCollins, c2001.
349.71
DUK
Dukelow,
Daphne A., 1948-. Pocket dictionary of Canadian law.: Scarborough, ON: Thomson
Professional Pub. Canada, c1991.
349.71
UND
Understanding
the law. 2nd ed. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, c1996.
REF
349.71 REA
Reader's
Digest legal problem solver: a quick-and-easy action guide to the law. Westmount,
Quebec: Reader's Digest Association (Canada), 1994.
Alberta Learning Online Reference Centre
Use ELibrary Canada to find magazine and newspaper articles, video clips, and transcripts of radio or television broadcasts.
Discovering Collection, CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals), Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Use Opposing Viewpoints to get a variety of points of view on your topic. This site provides excellent information, but much of it is American. Just remember that you must include Canadian information in your project.
Go to http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/edmo21275 and use the password you get from library staff.
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For many topics, a good way to begin is to go to www.google.ca. There you can type your topic into the search box and select "pages from Canada." We do not recommend doing this search in Yahoo or AltaVista as you will undoubtedly get inappropriate sites. |
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Next go to one of the sites below and search for your topic. Here you will find Canadian cases, Canadian statutes, and articles written by Canadian lawyers. |
Note: Be sure to check to see when the information was last updated.
Homework Center - Social Issues - http://www.multcolib.org/homework/sochc.html Librarian-selected links for research on social issues from different perspectives. Most include For, Against, and Legislation links. Note that the legislation referred to is American, not Canadian.
Canadian Legal Information Institute
http://www.canlii.org/index_en.html
Canadian Legal Information Institute from the National Virtual Law Library Group of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. Has a search engine
Provides a wide variety of information on justice-related matters in Alberta.
Public Legal Education Association of Saskatchewan
http://www.plea.org/freepubs/freepubs.htm
Public Legal Education Association of Saskatchewan provides legal information and law-related education. The free publications cover a variety of legal issues, and are written in easy-to-understand language.
Duhaime.org
http://www.duhaime.org/
Articles prepared by Lloyd Duhaime, Barrister & Solicitor, of Victoria, B.C. Law
topics include family law, contract, employment and labour, bankruptcy,
criminal, human rights, real estate, intellectual property (copyright), and
more. Has a search tool.
Canadian Legal Resources
Canadian Legal Resources - contains a search engine and over 1200 links. Has a topical index.
Canlaw.com
http://www.canlaw.com/rights/resource.htm
Laws, research sources, statures, codes, government and private legal
information. Canadian links to law research sources, statutes, codes,
government and private legal information sites.
Introduction to Canada's Criminal Law and The Jury System - by Criminal Defence Lawyer & Instructor
Includes Sources of Canada's Criminal Law, Category of Criminal Offences, Levels of Court. and Jury System.
Capital Punishment: All Points of View on the Death Penalty
This site "deals with the execution of criminals found guilty of having committed serious crimes. ... Most democracies in the world have abandoned the death penalty. The U.S. and Japan and South Korea are the only exceptions." Features data, a description of methods (such as hanging, electric chair, firing squad, and lethal injection), material about the status of the death penalty worldwide, and links to related sites.
Use EasyBib.com or SourceAid.com to do your bibliography online.
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This site is the property of M.E. LaZerte High School, Edmonton Public Schools. While you are most welcome to use this site, its organization, all annotations, and most activities are copyrighted, and permission must be sought for their reproduction. E-mail questions to C. Peterson, M.E. LaZerte High School Teacher Librarian, at cynthia dot peterson at epsb dot ca (replace the word "at" with the @ symbol; "dot" with a period). Last updated Dec. 18/06