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A Calgary organization that offers free legal services to people who don’t qualify for legal aid in Alberta is calling on candidates in the provincial election to remove barriers to accessing justice. “We have political parties talking specifically about crime in our downtown area and on our trains, and there …

In October 2021, a handful of protesters loyal to the QAnon conspiracy movement gathered outside a public health building in eastern Ontario. “You are interfering with them being served,” a security guard standing in front of the Peterborough Public Health building was told by one protester in a video posted …

Justice Minister David Lametti is expected to field questions about the legal advice the federal government got before invoking the Emergencies Act to deal with anti-public health measure protests last winter when he testifies before the public inquiry later today. The attorney general is one of three federal ministers before …

Haweya Farah’s family is in a dispute with her 10-year-old brother’s Ottawa-area school and its school board, Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario (CEPEO).  The fifth grader has been in a specialized-language program without the consent of his parents, Farah said. Often families like Farah’s don’t know where …

Alberta defence lawyers will stage a 90-minute courthouse walkout in Edmonton and Calgary on Friday morning,  to protest the lack of progress in their fight with the provincial government for increased legal aid funding. The planned walkout will take place between 9 and 10:30 a.m. The demonstration is the latest salvo in …

The B.C. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday from a group of B.C. single mothers who are challenging the province’s legal aid system. The case, launched in 2017 by the Single Mothers Alliance, argues the province’s legal aid funding for women fleeing abuse is inadequate, and puts them further at risk. A judge …

Hundreds of defence lawyers from across Alberta are set to take job action in August and September after an unsatisfactory response from the province around legal aid funding. A Thursday press release from the Criminal Defence Lawyers’ Association of Calgary, the Criminal Trial Lawyers’ Association of Edmonton, and the Southern …

TikTok was not exactly the first choice for Michael DeRosenroll when considering how to reach people to inform them about human rights law. “But when I looked into it, I started specifically looking at how other lawyers are using TikTok,” the St. Albert-based lawyer said.  “I thought I could … tell entertaining …

Legal experts are slamming a full-page ad from the CAQ government running in both French and English newspapers this week that purports to correct “falsehoods” circulating about the new law to protect the French language, commonly know as Bill 96. “The ad campaign is misleading,” constitutional lawyer Julius Grey told CBC in an …

Haridwar: Legal action will be taken against attendants of the Kumbh Mela who violate COVID-19 Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), the Uttarakhand State Disaster Management Department informed on Sunday, adding that SOPs will remain in force throughout the duration of the event. The Kumbh Mela will take place from April 1 …