relating law to life
The environment and Canada’s resource driven economy has been a recurring top story in the national news. There is currently an abundance of teachable moments to discuss the environment. The latest issue of LawNow magazine explores environmental causes and the law and is the perfect backgrounder for informed discussions about current events and environmental issues. [...]
Amendments to the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) came into force last October. The Centre for Public Legal Education Alberta has created a new video on these amendments. It’s an easy to follow explanation of the act and its application. Click here to view the video on YouTube.
LawCentralSchools.ca is a popular resource for Alberta teachers to find law-related lesson plans. The website has recently undergone a major update! Some of the new features on the site include: enhanced lesson plan search; new teacher resources; and a sharp new look. The website includes links to LawNow articles matched with the curriculum and includes [...]
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 [...]
School’s In was a special feature that ran in LawNow magazine in the late 2000s. The feature produced a substantial collection of classroom ready lesson plans. Each lesson was developed with a special focus on inquiry learning. The School’s In articles have always been available in the archives but have recently been transferred to the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The article Privacy Issues in Criminal Law is a guide to Privacy after the enactment of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The article reviews major developments in privacy after the Charter and also discusses upcoming issues where the law isn’t clear yet. “One area of privacy law which is still in its early [...]
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