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Kristy Rhyason is the Communications Coordinator at the Centre for Public Legal Education Alberta, the publisher of LawNow Magazine. Kristy maintains the website, mailing list, social media and blog for LawNow and can be contacted with any questions about the magazine at info@lawnow.org
Do you want to know how our justice system works in Alberta? Do you want to take a tour of your courthouse? Watch a trial? Get answers to your legal questions? Law Day is family friendly, so bring the kids and learn about the law! April 13, 2013 in Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge and Red Deer. April [...]
In your September/October, 2011, issue of LawNow, there was an article, “Whatever Happened To … The Prosecution of Susan Nelles,” by Peter Bowal and Kelsey Horvat, discussing one of Canada’s most fascinating and significant medico-legal cases. It noted in the final paragraphs, the possibility that a chemical, MBT, from the natural rubber components of syringes, [...]
Table of Contents Featured Articles: Environmental Causes Special Report: Helping Yourself Departments Columns Printable PDF version Featured Articles: Environmental Causes Canadians treasure their environment, and for many, preventing its degradation becomes a cause. The law can be used in some interesting and unique ways to help the cause. The Constitutional Right to [...]
Full PDF of the issue Table of Contents Featured Articles: Constitutions Special Report: Developments in Internet Law Departments Columns Featured Articles: Constitutions Do Constitutions matter? Indeed they do. Just ask the Egyptian people protesting, confronting, and even dying over the drafting of their new constitution. Evolution, Not Revolution: Canada’s Constitutional History and [...]
It’s that time of year again! All of the staff at the Centre for Public Legal Education Alberta will gather around a feast of lemon squares and kale chips to brainstorm ideas for the next volume of LawNow Magazine. While we like to think that we’re quite brilliant when it comes to thinking up important [...]
LawNow Magazine covers lots of hot topics and privacy law has been a big one in the past few issues. In the latest issue of LawNow Magazine, the Special Report looked at developments in Internet law, including privacy and cloud computing. The Internet Law column in the same issue,” Who Cares About Internet Law and [...]
Full PDF of the issue Table of Contents Featured Articles: Elections and the Law Special Report: Privacy Law Departments Columns Featured Articles: Elections and the Law Free and fair elections are the cornerstones of democracies. This issue of LawNow examines elections law in Canada and around the world. American and Canadian Election Laws [...]
Privacy means different things to different people around the world; what is considered private in one culture might not be in the next. However, the ability to choose when identity and personal information is revealed and when it’s not is a value all humans hold. In the digital age, this sense of control over privacy [...]
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