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General Legal Databases

CanLII
Free online Canadian case law.
Department of Justice - Laws
Look here to find Canada's consolidated Acts and Regulations, and other related documents.
Quicklaw PLUS
Provides access to the most comprehensive collection available of case law, legislation, exclusive current awareness services, expert commentary and more. Includes Halsbury's Laws of Canada, legal textbooks, legal forms and precedents, quantums, and practice products in various areas of law.
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WestlawNext Canada
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Legal database with a comprehensive collection of Canadian case law and legislation, plus finding tools such as The Canadian Encyclopedic Digest and The Canadian Abridgment. Contains KeyCite Canada for noting up cases and legislation and Index to Canadian Legal Literature for finding expert analysis. Also contains Words and Phrases for finding judicial interpretations of legal terms. Use Chrome when remotely connecting from home. See Chrome icon above for tip sheets.

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Your Legal Rights [Community Legal Education Ontario]
Free, practical legal information to assist the general public in exercising their legal rights.
Easy to understand, step-by-step information to address common legal problems.

Other Subscription Databases

Academic Search Premier
Comprehensive index of scholarly journals with focuses on social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
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Canadian Points of View Reference Centre
Provides Canadian context for a variety of research topics and clearly illustrates differing points of view to help start research projects and opinion papers.
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Canadian Reference Centre
Comprehensive collection of Canadian and international magazines such as Macleans, Scientific American, newspapers and news wires such as the Toronto Star, as well as reference books and company information, biographies and an image collection. This database also includes a Canadian Dictionary.
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Nexis UNI (formerly LexisNexis PLUS)
Provides full-text documents from over 6,000 news, business, legal, medical and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options. Permalinks/stable links currently not working. For best results use Firefox or Chrome.
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SocINDEX with Full Text
Comprehensive sociology research database including its many sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. Full text available for over 700 journals (back to 1908), 800 books and thousands of conference papers.
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Employment, Labour and Occupational Health and Safety

CCOHS [Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety]
CCOHS [Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety] website provides information on all aspects of occupational health and safety. Access Canadian legislation and standards, MSDS, CHEMINFO, FTSS, RTECS®, OSHLINE™ with NIOSHTIC®, HSELINE, CISILO, Canadiana.
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Government Documents

Ontario Government Documents
From the collection of the Ontario Legislative Library, supports searching by subject, agency, year.
Canadian Government Publications Portal
A portal for discovering publications digitized by Internet Archive Canada.
Ontario Law Reform Commission Final Reports
Digitized and available free on this internet archive
Government and Legislative Online Publications Portal [GALLOP]
Legislative and government publications held in libraries of the Association of Parliamentary Libraries in Canada.
Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Provides information on members of the provincial parliament, bills and lawmaking, and debates and proceedings.
LEGISinfo
A research tool for finding information on legislation before Parliament. This tool provides electronic access to a wide range of information about individual bills..
Parliament of Canada
Provides quick and easy access to the official publications of Parliament as well as to general, non-partisan information about the role, history, proceedings and activities of the Senate, the House of Commons and the Library of Parliament.
Supreme Court of Canada
Highest court of Canada and final court of appeal; includes judgments, cases, news releases and Acts and rules

International Legal Resources

Criminal Justice Periodicals
Search a comprehensive collection of U.S. and international criminal justice journals, including information for professionals in law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.
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ICC Legal Tools
Contains several collections, facilitating access to core international crimes cases involving war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide or aggression. You can search using the Menu on the far right.
International Law Library
A comprehensive free access international law research infrastructure features 76 databases, including: The International Courts and Tribunals; Treaties & International Agreements; UN Resolutions & Security Council; law commentary & articles, especially related to Humanitarian Law
Features LawCite citator.

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