Law

Law is a system of rules created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and the art of justice. State-enforced laws can be made by a group legislature or by a single legislator, resulting in statutes; by the executive through decrees and regulations; or established by judges through precedent, usually in common law jurisdictions. Private individuals may create legally binding contracts, including arbitration agreements that adopt alternative ways of resolving disputes to standard court litigation. The creation of laws themselves …

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CSA: Canadian Standards Association · 17 May 2024 English

Annual Report 2023-2024 Making an impact for a safer, healthier and more sustainable Canada For more than 100 years, CSA Group has led the development of standards in Canada, and …

papers, CSA research and policy papers, Canadian law) M A K I N G A N I M P A C T F O R A S A F E R ,


CSA: Canadian Standards Association · 17 May 2024

Peoples, Treaties and • Provide a safe and constructive forum to highlight Aboriginal rights, Indigenous law, and Aboriginal– the challenges and opportunities of the 2SLGBTQIA+ Crown relations.

forum to highlight Aboriginal rights, Indigenous law, and Aboriginal– the challenges and opportunities


MUHC: McGill University Health Centre Technology Assessment Unit · 16 May 2024 English

The object of the present by-law is to establish the operating rules of the UC. [...] Accomplish these tasks by liaising with the administration (UC only), the management, and the employees of the MUHC

together. 2. Object 2.1. The object of the present by-law is to establish the operating rules of the UC. SECTION


Invasive Species Council of BC · 16 May 2024 English

ISCBC coordinates the charity and non-profit society making a difference Indigenous Invasive Species Network to support in the lives of people across British Columbia by communication and knowledge exchange on …

Laws and policies around these have not been used consistently in existing SARA and COSEWIC dictate a necessity to adaptation Laws and policies around SARA species identified in this report are all from and COSEWIC dictate a necessity to include published


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 May 2024 English

The Briscoe-MacDougall family retire to their lakeside cabin each summer. This annual vacation is at time to unwind and refresh, a time to relax away from the hustle and bustle …

that they kept. Daphne had cared for her mother-in-law in spite of the odds: they were often together during kitchen. Clare looked with gratitude at her sister-in-law, Jéanne, and at Jéanne’s sister Françoise down the name was something meaningful to her sister-in-law. Doug’s room, down the hall, was already quiet. Downstairs


UBC: UBC Press · 15 May 2024 English

Land and the Liberal Project is an excellent and much-needed accounting of colonialism during the period surrounding Confederation. It challenges nationalistic narratives regarding the formation of Canada.

of expansion and settlement were more pas- sive, law abiding (Lipset 1990; Torrance 1986), and less bloody resisted, Ottawa responded with the strong arm of the law, through police repression and military force. Time relied on illegitimate powers, not authorized by law, and forms of violence, smuggled in to institute expansionist ends, includ- ing constitutional design and law promulgation. I refer to these as “elimination strategies


BCCLA: BC Civil Liberties Association · 15 May 2024

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LIBERTIES ASSOCIATION, ADVOCATES FOR THE RULE OF LAW, DEMOCRACY WATCH, CANADIAN TAXPAYERS FEDERATION, ON K1A 0J1 COPIES TO: Lenczner Slaght LLP Power Law 130 Adelaide Street West, Suite 2600 50 O’Connor shale@litigate.com Attorney General of Ontario Constitutional Law Branch 720 Bay Street, 4th Floor Toronto, ON M7A Counsel for the Intervener, Advocates for the Law Rule of Law mailto:sursel@upfhlaw.ca mailto:kallen@upfhlaw David R. Elliott Devin Drover Corey Villeneuve (Law Clerk) Tel : (709) 570-7259 Tel : (613) 783-9699


UBC: UBC Press · 15 May 2024 English

Canada and Colonialism presents the history Canadians must reckon with before decolonization is possible, from the nation’s establishment as a settler colony to the discriminatory legacies still at work in …

constitution and that remains enshrined in Canadian law; I use it in this book when referring toNote on Terminology involved the common law of most of Canada, the civil law of Quebec, the Roman-Dutch law of South Africa Africa and Ceylon, Islamic law, Indian religious laws, or one of the Indigenous laws of Africa.24 One of its interesting decisions involved Quebec religious law. Te court ordered a burial in a Catholic cemetery Laurier argued that “it was not contrary to moral law to take possession, and even forcible possession


UBC: UBC Press · 15 May 2024 English

The old neo-liberal economic theory that deregulation will solve the problem of unaffordable housing is being contradicted by reality, with ugly consequences for social cohesion, mental health, urban vitality, and …

was an assumed fundamental law of real estate economics. This so-called law, as we shall see later in US Supreme Court declared that in passing this law, Congress had exceeded authorities granted by the


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English

What the World Might Look Like examines the way resilience stories have come to dominate the settler-colonial imagination and explores alternative approaches to resilience writing that instead offer decolonial models …

coincidentally corresponds to what Wynter describes as the “law-like normalization of the corporeal features of Being has yielded to a modern, no less immutable law sanctioned by the discourse of biology, which divides


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