Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian law

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Canadian law. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

Scope
This WikiProject's scope is all areas of Canadian law, from federal constitutional law, to provincial law and municipal bylaws, to expand the amount of information on these laws on Wikipedia. We will also strive to include case law, and various court rulings.

Requests

 * I've started an article on the Ontario Municipal Act but it needs attention from someone more knowledgeable about the subkect. Robbie dee 21:34, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
 * ASAP Research and links related to first nations policing services in Canada.
 * There are a lot of articles in Category:Canadian Indigenous case law. It would be great to have a main article to link them together. - TheMightyQuill 02:35, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Important cases needing articles (perhaps this should be a sub-page?):
 * Sandra Lovelace v. Canada
 * Are you talking about the human rights tribunal case from 1975 regarding Aborginal rights? Unfortunately, given that it's a tribunal case from the 70s, and not a court case, it is not easy to find the text of the article. Perhaps someone with access to the case can write something (if it's noteable)? Otherwise, this request should be removed. Singularity42 (talk) 17:39, 16 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Because of a mention on Guujaaw I looked up the "Haida Taku Case" which turns out to be two parallel cases, and it sounds like they were heard conjointly - Haida Nation v. the Queen and Taku River Tlingit v. the Queen (Weyerhauser may have been a codefendant in the Haida case -??). I "don't do law articles" so am leaving these here as requests - here is one source/precis and here is a google search.  If they were heard together then maybe Haida Taku Case is usable as a title (or not?).
 * The cases are Haida Nation v. British Columbia (Minister of Forests), [2004] 3 S.C.R. 511 and Taku River Tlingit First Nation v. British Columbia (Project Assessment Director), [2004] 3 S.C.R. 550. They were indeed heard together. Unfortunately, aboriginal law is not my strong suit, but if I have time I'll see if I can at least put a small article together... if someone doesn't beat me to the punch. Singularity42 (talk) 17:39, 16 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Xeni Decision or Xeni Gwetin v. British Columbia maybe see articles here
 * There are a number of related cases, from 2002 to 2008. More info required, or this request will have to be removed. Singularity42 (talk) 17:39, 16 August 2009 (UTC)


 * unceded claims is a POV title, in my estimation, but I was concerned on the Delgamuukw talkpage about the apprent misrepresentation of how it was that BC came to ignore aboriginal claims, which the article currently says was the colony's doing; the provicne's position has always been (until recanted in recent times) that it was one of the consequences of joining Confederation that absolved BC of any responsibility for unresolved claims. Land claims in BC ara separate subject than elsewhere, e.g. in Land claims; not sure what an appropriate title should be i.e. where unceded claims/unceded lands might redirect to; those are buzzpharses from the native polity and carry with them implicitly judgments so they won't do.Skookum1 (talk) 01:57, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Fred Quilt case or Fred Quilt investigation. The beating-death of Fred Quilt, a Tsilhqot'in chief, in the early 1970s, was one of the hinge-events galvanizing aborignail reform in British Columbia; largely hushed up now.  here is a google for "Fred Quilt"
 * I believe this request is outside of this project's scope. Your are looking for more of a biographical/historical article versus an article about Canadian law. Consider WikiProject History of Canada instead. Singularity42 (talk) 17:47, 16 August 2009 (UTC)


 * BC Legislature Raids needs the legal cases broken off and expanded, especially given the many extraordinary judgments to do with evidence during the preliminary hearings so far, and issue to do with privilege and more....sadly, because of a near-blackout by the major media, most of the online sources for this are in blogspace, althouyg Bill Tielemann has published various articles in The Tyee, The Straight and occasionally in other outlets. Skookum1 (talk) 01:57, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * A number of the judges listed at Template:FederalCourtsOfCanada needs bios written (most are in stub form at the moment). Thanks Sherurcif for putting together such a useful template! Singularity42 (talk) 16:27, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Could someone write an article on Canada's Customs Act? -- Gordon Ecker (talk) 04:29, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I have added third party references to the McCarthy Tetrault article page to enhance its validity. It would be great to have external confirmation that these references are suitable. Many thanks! Toogreen (talk) 20:06, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I would like to request a page made on Breach of undertaking or a proper redirect to the appropriate/equivalent charge. CaffeinAddict (talk) 15:53, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
 * I've recently added all of the Supreme Court of Canada decisions to Wikidata (https://w.wiki/9qHj). These include connections to CanLII and to the SCC docket (when a docket number is available). I'm in the process of adding how the judgements were made (https://w.wiki/9p8H) to these decisions. I would like to be able to also note who were the interveners in each SCC case in Wikidata. If you are in support of this possibility, please consider my proposal for an intervenor property in Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Organization#intervener Copystar (talk)

Things You Can Do

 * 1) Tag related articles talk pages (at the top) with.
 * 2) Come up with a potential list of missing articles that need to be created.
 * 3) Re-tag related stub pages with.


 * 1) Adopt an article: Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced. Example article: User:Example
 * 2) Develop common standards and formats for pages on Canadian law.
 * 3) Expand the number of articles on Canadian law.

Project guidelines and strategy

 * /Strategy - future plans for the Canadian law project
 * /Policy - general policy for writing articles related to Canadian law
 * /CaseLawPolicy - policy for writing case law summaries
 * Cleanup discussion

Citation style
For case law and legislation, whether mentioned in-text or in a footnote citation, use the post-2010 McGill Guide format (no full-stops). For other material, follow the advice at WP:CITESTYLE. Citation templates can help produce consistent citation formatting.

Infoboxes

 * Template:Infobox legislation
 * Template:Courts of Canada
 * Template:FederalCourtsOfCanada
 * Template:Infobox SCC - Use for all Supreme Court of Canada cases
 * Template:Dickson-court
 * Template:Lamer-court
 * Template:McLachlin-court
 * Template:Law enforcement agencies in Canada

Stub templates

 * e.g. which will add the article to Category:Canadian law stubs
 * See also Stub for general guidelines on creating stub templates and categories

Talk Page template
will add the article to both this project and to the general WikiProject Canada. It also allows the article to be assessed. Please add it to all relevant Talk pages.

Volunteer recognition

 * [[Image:Barnstar-CanCon.jpg|thumb|The Canadian Content Award]] This is for outstanding contributions to Canadian related pages on Wikipedia.

Law

 * Black-Branch, Jonathan L (1995), Making sense of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canadian Education Association ISBN 978-0-920315-78-1
 * Greene, Ian (1989),The Charter of Rights, Toronto, James Lorimer and Company, ISBN 978-1-55028-185-9
 * Black-Branch, Jonathan L (1995), Making sense of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canadian Education Association ISBN 978-0-920315-78-1
 * Greene, Ian (1989),The Charter of Rights, Toronto, James Lorimer and Company, ISBN 978-1-55028-185-9
 * Greene, Ian (1989),The Charter of Rights, Toronto, James Lorimer and Company, ISBN 978-1-55028-185-9

Crime

 * Auger, Michel; Edwards, Peter (2004), The encyclopedia of Canadian organized crime: from Captain Kidd to Mom Boucher, Marks & Spencer ISBN 0-7710-3044-4

Wikipedia articles on WikiProject Canadian law

 * Canadian law

Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on WikiProject Canadian law

 * WikiProject Canadian law
 * Canadian law

New Wikipedia articles related to WikiProject Canadian law
Please feel free to list your new WikiProject Canadian law-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.


 * Geoff Plant
 * Carl Leone

WikiProject Deletion sorting
WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The WikiProject Canadian law-related articles at VFD are listed at WikiProject Deletion sorting/Canadian law.

WikiProject Canadian law Article alerts
Article alerts list this project's articles (and categories) nominated for deletion per WP:AFD, WP:PROD, or WP:CFD. Articles deleted per WP:SD will only show on the project's assessment log.

Article alerts is wholly dependent on the assignment of the as above.

Related WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Law
 * WikiProject Australian law
 * WikiProject Electoral districts in Canada

Discussion

 * General discussion of this project occurs here.

Descendant WikiProjects
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Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

Wikiproject Watchlist

 * Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Canadian law