June 11, 2013
The Downtown Eastside Resource Guide by the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre was created for the ease of locating resources by/for consumers and service providers. Any edits, additions, deletions,...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Children and Youth, Disability, Family, Foodbanks and Food, Health, Homelessness, Housing, Legal Assistance, Mental Health, Unemployment, Welfare, Women, British Columbia, Manuals and guides
July 18, 2012
Nova Scotia Family Law's website offers information relating to the law, processes, and services that make up family law in Nova Scotia. It can help you understand your family law issue and will...
Keywords: Children and Youth, Family, family law, family law, Government Policy, Legal Aid, legal aid, Legal Assistance, Nova Scotia, Organizations, Services
May 24, 2012
The Richmond Low Income Resource Directory has a full list of services for low income people in Richmond.
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Art and Culture, Children and Youth, Disability, Family, Foodbanks and Food, Health, Homelessness, Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Aid, Legal Assistance, Mental Health, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Violence, Welfare, Women, Workers' Rights, British Columbia, Directories
May 23, 2012
Access Williams Lake and Area is a free, regularly updated directory connecting residents of Williams Lake with a wide variety of resources including advocacy, crisis services, health, disability,...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Children and Youth, Disability, Foodbanks and Food, Health, Housing, Legal Assistance, LGBTQ, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Welfare, Williams Lake, Women, Workers' Rights, British Columbia, Directories
March 15, 2012
Legal Help for British Columbians is a guide for non-legal professionals in British Columbia to learn where to direct clients when legal problems occur. It can also be used directly by those seeking...
Keywords: Legal Assistance, legal help, Legal Info (PLEI), British Columbia, Directories
December 6, 2011
Your Legal Rights is a website of legal information for people in Ontario. This site has free, practical, and easy-to-find legal information produced by hundreds of organizations across Ontario and...
Keywords: Children and Youth, Debt and Consumer Law, Disability, Health, Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Assistance, Legal Info (PLEI), legal information, Poverty Research, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Violence, Welfare, Women, Workers' Rights, Gateways, Ontario
October 31, 2011
The mission of the Access Pro Bono Society of British Columbia is to promote access to justice in British Columbia by providing and fostering quality pro bono legal services for people and non-profit...
Keywords: lawyers, legal, Legal Assistance, Legal Info (PLEI), Legal Research, pro bono, British Columbia, Manuals and guides, Organizations, Services
June 13, 2011
Legal Services Society Aboriginal section is dedicated to issues important to Aboriginal people. It provides legal information and resources, and community news. It also links to people who can help...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Legal Assistance, British Columbia, General resources, Manuals and guides, Research and education
May 27, 2011
This booklet is for home owners who can't make their mortgage payments on legal mortgages and will be going through foreclosure proceedings. This booklet is not intended for home owners who have a...
Keywords: Debt and Consumer Law, Housing, Legal Assistance, British Columbia, Manuals and guides
May 27, 2011
The following are the titles of the five advocacy booklets available online or through MSS:
(A PDF viewer such as Adobe Reader is required)
ADVOCACY
COMMUNITY AND LEGAL RESOURCES
MS AND HUMAN RIGHTS...
Keywords: Disability, Human Rights, Legal Assistance, Seniors and Elders, British Columbia, Manuals and guides
May 25, 2011
Part of the Edmonton Coalition Against War and Racism, Campaign to Stop Secret Trials and Deportations is interested in protecting and expanding civil rights, especially among those of racially and...
Keywords: Alberta, Ethnicity and Race, Human Rights, Legal Assistance, Campaigns and initiatives, All of Canada
May 25, 2011
The Centre for Spanish-Speaking Peoples (CSSP) is a multi-service community centre which serves the varied Spanish-speaking community of Greater Toronto. The Centre's goals include promoting equality...
Keywords: Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Assistance, Ontario, Organizations
May 25, 2011
Based out of the University of California Hastings Campus, this organization acts as a resource for gender based asylum seekers.
Keywords: Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Assistance, LGBTQ, Women, Organizations, Research and education, United States
April 14, 2011
Pivot Legal works to advance the interests and improving the lives of marginalized persons through law reform, legal education, and strategic legal action.
Pivot’s mandate is to use the law to...
Keywords: child welfare, child welfare, criminalization, criminalization, Downtown Eastside, Downtown Eastside, Homelessness, homelessness, homelessness, Human Rights, Legal Assistance, Legal Info (PLEI), Legal Research, Organizing, policing, policing, sex workers, sex workers, social change, social change, social justice, social justice, Welfare, Women, British Columbia, Campaigns and initiatives, Organizations, Reports and documents, Research and education, Services
April 11, 2011
The British Columbia Public Interest Advocacy Centre is a non-profit society that advances the interests of groups that are generally unrepresented or underrepresented in issues of major public...
Keywords: consumer advocacy, consumer law, consumer rights, credit, debit, Debt and Consumer Law, Disability, disability rights, factsheets, farmworkers rights, Homelessness, Human Rights, Legal Assistance, Legal Info (PLEI), Legal Research, PLEI, Tenants' Rights, Utilities, Workers' Rights, British Columbia, Factsheets and FAQs, Organizations, Research and education, Services
January 26, 2011
JusticeBC brings into one portal information about the criminal justice system, as well as links to other resources and services about the criminal justice system, criminal law, victim services,...
Keywords: court services, criminal law, criminal record, jury duty, justice, justice system, Legal Assistance, Legal Info (PLEI), victim services, youth justice, British Columbia, Gateways, Government information
January 12, 2011
LawCentral Alberta is a portal or collection of links to law-related information and educational resources on justice and legal issues of interest to Albertans. Our purpose is to create an educated...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Alberta, Children and Youth, Debt and Consumer Law, Disability, Family, Housing, Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, justice, Legal Assistance, legal help, Legal Info (PLEI), legal issues, LGBTQ, PLEI, portal, Prisoners' Rights, public legal education and information, Seniors and Elders, Welfare, Women, Workers' Rights, Gateways
November 23, 2010
CLAS has posted a revised guide to Representing Yourself in a Judicial Review.
There are two versions of the guide posted:
one for judicial reviews generally, which consists of their main guide, and...
Keywords: court, evictions, judicial review, Legal Assistance, Legal Info (PLEI), British Columbia, Manuals and guides
October 29, 2010
MOSAIC's Multilingolegal.ca is an online multilingual legal resource, developed in 2003, aims to provide comprehensive and critical legal information in Arabic, Chinese (simplified and traditional),...
Keywords: Arabic, chinese, French, Immigrants and Refugees, Korean, Legal Assistance, Legal Info (PLEI), legal publications, newcomers, Punjabi, settlement workers, Spanish, British Columbia, Factsheets and FAQs, Manuals and guides
April 21, 2009
Clicklaw is a website aimed at enhancing access to justice in British Columbia. It features legal information and education, but it is not a site of laws. Instead, Clicklaw features legal information...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, abuse, Children and Youth, court, Debt and Consumer Law, Disability, Family, family law, family violence, Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Aid, Legal Assistance, Legal Info (PLEI), legal problems, Legal Research, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Welfare, wills, Women, Workers' Rights, British Columbia, Gateways
