A common question we get here at the Great Library is: “If everything is now online, why do you need to keep these musty old books?” While it would be nice to assume that everything you need to know is available online through Google or a quick query to ChatGPT, you shouldn’t disregard the older editions of texts and their tables of cases that can be found in our often overlooked 1st floor and extensive closed stacks.
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Good day, Bill-watchers and readers of Know How. We’re chiming in here because, as most of you know, the 43rd Parliament of Ontario has been dissolved as of Tuesday, January 28, 2025, at 4:00 pm. As a result, there are no planned meetings of the House, and the next House of Bills post will not appear in your inbox March 10, 2025, as we’d originally announced. Instead, a general election will take place on February 27, 2025, and House of Bills will resume once the 44th Parliament is established and legislature is back in session. Click through for more information about parliamentary dissolution, and a roundup of election law resources.
Continue reading “House of Bills: Special Parliamentary Dissolution Edition!”Don’t Judge a Building by its Construction
If you’ve been in the neighbourhood of Queen and University lately, you may have noticed that the whole Northeast corner of the intersection looks a little different than it used to. That’s because, like so many neighborhoods in Toronto, it’s under a few different kinds of construction. Osgoode Hall itself is undergoing repair, maintenance, and improvement, too. While the roadblocks and detours may seem impassable, you can still come visit the Great Library (and really, you should, because we miss you).
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