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Legislation and Law - Législation et Droit
Canadian
Legal Information Institute (CanLII)
- CanLII is a distributor of Canadian
primary legal material on the Internet
- incl. almost 100 links to federal,
provincial and territorial courts (incl. supreme courts), as well as statutes
and regulations for most jurisdictions.
LEGISINFO
- Federal Bills
"LEGISINFO is an essential research tool for finding information
on legislation currently before Parliament. This tool provides electronic access
to a wide range of information about individual bills, such as: the text of the
bill at various stages; government press releases and backgrounders (for government
bills); legislative summaries from the Parliamentary Research Branch; important
speeches at second reading; votes; and coming into force data."
Access
to Justice Network
"The Access to Justice Network (ACJNet) is an
electronic community that brings together people, information, and educational
resources on justice and legal issues of interest to Canadians. It uses new technologies
to create and distribute products and services and to facilitate broad base consultations.
ACJNet is the only nationwide service dedicated to making law and justice resources
available to all Canadians in either official language."
LexUM
- Virtual Canadian Law Library - Université de Montréal
Law resources for Canada and Quebec, and some international
links; includes links to the complete text of all Supreme Court of Canada decisions
dating back to 1985
LexUM - Centre de recherche en droit public
Law
Commission of Canada - the LCC is an independent federal law reform agency
that advises Parliament on how to improve and modernize Canada’s laws. The Commission's
work is structured around four complementary themes: Personal Relationships -
Social Relationships - Economic Relationships - Governance Relationships
NOTE:
Law
Commission of Canada abandoned by Conservative government
The Law Commission
of Canada was informed on the 25th of September, 2006, of the federal government’s
decision to eliminate the Commission’s funding.
(From the now-defunct
LCC English homepage)
Canadian Constitutional Documents, 1867-2001
Jurist Canada - The Law Professors' Network
Law
Society of Upper Canada
"The Law Society of Upper Canada is the self-governing
body for lawyers in Ontario. The primary responsibility or mandate of the Law
Society is to regulate the legal profession in the public interest according to
Ontario law and the Law Society's rules, regulations and guidelines."
Legal Search Tools and Other Comprehensive Sites (from the Indiana University School of Law)
Where
to report suspected welfare fraud/abuse: |
Welfare
Fraud: The Constitution of Social Assistance as Crime (PDF file -
475K, 137 pages)
By: Professor Janet Mosher, Osgoode Hall Law School, York
University
and Professor Joe Hermer, Division of Social Sciences, University
of Toronto at Scarborough
March 2005
[Paper prepared for the Law Commission
of Canada]
"The number of convictions for 2001-02 (393 convictions) is
roughly equivalent to 0.1 percent of the combined social assistance caseload and
one percent of the total number of allegations."[p. 34]
NOTE: this
paper offers some excellent information on welfare reforms in Ontario in the mid-1990s,
and it covers a number of contentious issues, including the Mike Harris welfare
snitch phone hotline, the Spouse-in-the-House rule, "enhanced verification"
and "consolidated verification procedures", fraud vs. client error,
welfare fraud vs fraud in the areas of income taxes and employment standards,
the Kimberly Rogers case, and more...
Where
I found this link:
Social
Assistance Law Resources - includes Ontario Works, Ontario Disability Support
Program, how to apply for benefits, appeals, and workfare.
[ part of Resources
and Tools ]
[ part of CLEONet
]
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Blaming the Victim - Opposing viewpoints about welfare fraud in Canada (from the BC Teachers' Federation)
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Reducing
Fraud and Waste in Income Security Programs In Canada
(1996)
- 75K zip file, WordPerfect format
-
identifies several critical types of fraud which the various Canadian federal,
provincial, territorial and municipal income security systems find difficult to
identify and prevent because of current federal legislation.
Early
Detection and Prevention Programs: Strategies for British Columbia
March, 1995
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United
Council on Welfare Fraud - The United Council on Welfare Fraud (UCOWF) is
an international organization of approximately 2,000 individuals from the United
States and Canada who have combined their efforts to fight fraud, waste, and abuse
in social service programs.
| Americans,
Canadians Concerned About Poverty September 6, 2007 Adults in two North American nations are worried about financial inequality, according to a poll by Angus Reid Strategies. 89 per cent of respondents in the United States—and 80 per cent of respondents in Canada—believe poverty is a very or moderately serious problem in their respective countries. Source: Angus Reid Global Monitor |
Compas
Public Opinion and Customer Research
Corporate
Research Associates Inc.
Decima Research
Ekos
Research Associates
Environics Research
Group
Ipsos Canada
Leger
Marketing
NRG Research Group
Pollara
Public Opinion and Market Research
SES
Research
The Strategic Counsel
Why
I'm not personally a big fan of polls
(...although
I'm not sure whether this example speaks worse about polls or residents of the
Big Apple)
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