Legal Resources

If you’re an immigrant in Canada sponsored by your partner and they are abusing you, find out how to protect yourself or your children.

Various booklets explain your rights and the programs available to you as a person in provincial custody.

Booklet explaining your rights and the programs available to you as a youth in provincial custody.

Various booklets explain your rights and the programs available to you as a person in federal custody.

This resource includes province-specific legal resources. For BC this includes information about your rights if you’re arrested or detained, how to change your gender marker, the BC Human Rights Code, and how to change your name.

This fact sheet explains the Good Samaritan Act. It includes charts about who is protected from arrest by the act when calling 911 for a drug overdose, and when you may not be protected.

Various booklets that explains your rights and the programs available to you as an Indigenous person in federal or provincial custody.

A guide on basic rights designed for people who rely on public space and regularly interact with law enforcement figures, including police, bylaw officers, and private security guards, because of their living conditions.

This online toolkit is a compilation of questions and answers around issues affecting 2SLGBTQIA+ folks. The content is divided into sections on criminal justice, health care, youth health care, and youth. The appendixes include definitions, resources, and the human right complaint process for transgender people.

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