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CanLII Changes: News You Can Use

Hello, Know How subscribers and visitors from the World Wide Web. Chiming in today to re-broadcast some announcements from our friends over at the Canadian Legal Information Institute, more commonly known as CanLII, Canada’s most trusted free repository for jurisprudence and legal information. Some of you will have seen this news via CanLII’s own blog post this past Tuesday. We’re signal boosting here for those who might otherwise miss it – click through to read about some big announcements they made this past week.

The Future (of Legal Citation in Canada) is Now

If you’re a member of, or work anywhere adjacent to, the Canadian legal information community, you’ll have heard by now that there is a new citation guide on the scene: the Canadian Open Access Legal (COAL) Citation Guide. Published in early June 2024, the COAL Citation Guide represents 2 years’ worth of energy and effort by a collective of law librarians and legal professionals across the country, and encompasses input from students, educators, and practitioners throughout the field of Canadian law. Read on if you, like me, might benefit from more context about how and why to use the COAL Guide in your legal research and writing.

Ready For Regulations, Part II: Tools for Tracing

In this series’ first post, we went over how to update regulations online beyond the e-Laws and Justice Laws currency date. This week, we’ll be reviewing some tools and tips to help you find and trace back regulations.