Grants and Contributions

The project consists of providing enhanced French language training, including specific sessions on French common law legal terminology, to Alberta Provincial Court judges to support an itinerant bilingual bench within the Provincial Court of Alberta. The training will enhance judges' abilities to preside in French over proceedings in criminal trials; applications for bail; sentencing hearings; matters under the Youth Criminal Justice Act; matters with the Family law and Child Protection jurisdiction of the Court; civil matters; pre-trial conferences in all areas; and judicial dispute resolution hearings.

The Côte-Nord Justice Hub Center will contact Anglophone communities of Côte-Nord to provide legal information sessions, one-on-one meetings, and to build partnerships to facilitate access to plain language legal information for the Official language minority community.

This project will revitalize Indigenous laws through research into the traditional knowledge, laws, and processes of the Nehiyawak Cree Nation. The research results will be used to update and enhance governance documents which will serve as the framework of guidance in the development and implementation of traditional laws.

Newfoundland and Labrador will undertake several activities over five fiscal years to advance victim services and access to justice for victims, while giving victims a more effective voice in the criminal justice system in Newfoundland and Labrador. Planned activities include; enhanced services, assistance and programs available to victims, witnesses and their families; independent legal advice for victims of sexual assault; accessibility of services and victim participation in the justice system through the use of technology and other creative resources and activities and training that support the implementation of the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights.

The project is to implement a collaborative response model to respond family violence across the province of Prince Edward Island. The objectives are to increase awareness and understanding of the risk factors associated with family violence; to enhance the knowledge and skills of both government and community members in family violence risk assessment; to increase capacity to assist victims of family violence; to improve cooperation and information sharing; and to facilitate linkages between government departments and community organizations to address family violence.

This project will provide information on recent changes in the Divorce Act by: 1) producing a webinar and a virtual town hall on the Divorce Act updates, 2) creating collateral resources derived from the webinar and town hall, 3) providing British Columbians with e-mail answers to their divorce related questions through the organization's question and answer service, and 4) producing "skills-related/how to" resources to help people develop the skills and mindset to deal with their divorce-related legal problems on their own and/or seek help if necessary.

The project will serve the needs of diverse and underserved families by delivering 30-60 minute workshops to parents who are experiencing separation and divorce and engaged in the family justice system. It will give them the opportunity to build parenting skills, practice those skills in real-time supervised visits and receive immediate strengths-based feedback from trained visitation facilitators.

Over the next five fiscal years, Saskatchewan will undertake various activities to enhance services available to victims of crime in Saskatchewan, including: providing liaisons in Prince Albert, Regina and Saskatoon to support families of missing persons; the Victim Services Responders program operating out of Saskatchewan's two Child Advocacy Centers to minimize trauma to child victims and their families; supports for families of missing persons; victims services training; enhancing the Independent Legal Advice Listen Project in partnership with the Public Legal Education Association by making the service available to domestic violence victims in addition to sexual assault victims; and, undertaking various activities to support the implementation of the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights.

Jurisdictional funding agreement for State-Funded Counsel in Saskatchewan.

The non-profit professional organization maintains professional standards, and promotes the study and enhances the stature of forensic science. It has established two committees: the Alcohol Test Committee which acts as an advisory body to the Department of Justice on matters related to alcohol and the law by evaluating, testing and reporting to the Minister on the scientific acceptability of breath analysis equipment used to determine the blood alcohol content of a person suspected of impaired driving; and the Drugs and Driving Committee which conducts and monitors research in a number of areas including the driving of a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs. Advice from this Committee assists in responding to outstanding policy issues related to drugs and driving