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Legal Databases

Finding Cases, Legislation and Law Journals.

Westlaw Canada
Contains an extensive collection of Canadian case law, legislation, and secondary sources from LawSource and CriminalSource, including: Canadian Abridgment Digests, Canadian Encyclopedic Digest and Martin’s Annual Criminal Code.
Canadian Legal Information Institute
Contains statutes and case law from Canadian federal, provincial, and territorial jurisdictions.
Quicklaw
Contains legal information, including case summaries, Halsbury's Laws of Canada, legal journal articles, and some legal textbooks.
HeinOnline
Contains Canadian and international law journals, Canada Supreme Court Reports, Provincial Statutes of Canada and Constitutions of the World.

Explore key Police Foundations databases to find academic journal articles for your research assignments.

Sage Premier
Contains peer-reviewed and other academic journal articles on social sciences and humanities, health sciences, life and biomedical sciences, and material sciences and engineering.
Canada Commons
Contains publications from public policy institutes, government agencies, advocacy groups, think-tanks, and university research centres.
SocINDEX with Fulltext
Contains peer-reviewed and other academic journal articles, eBooks, magazines, and conference papers on sociology, including gender studies, criminal justice, racial studies, religion, and social work.
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Fulltext
Contains peer-reviewed and other academic journal articles on criminal justice subjects including criminology, forensic sciences, corrections, policing, criminal law, and investigation.
PsycArticles
Contains peer-reviewed and other academic journal articles on the social and behavioral sciences.
Project MUSE
Contains peer-reviewed and other academic articles and eBooks on the humanities and social sciences. Material is DRM-free.

Canadian Newsstream
Contains articles from national and local Canadian newspapers. Includes The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the National Post, and the Vancouver Sun, among others.
PressReader
Contains current and recent newspapers from 70 countries in 37 languages in the original full-page and full-colour print format.
U.S. Newsstream
Contains national and local U.S. newspapers. Features The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune.
Nexis Uni
Contains international and domestic newspapers, magazines, and trade journals, company financial information, industry and market news, legal resources, medical news, abstracts, and country profiles.

Statistics Canada
Contains statistics and reports on all areas of Canada's population, resources, economy, society, and culture.

Juristat
This publication provides in-depth analysis and detailed statistics on a variety of topics and issues related to justice and public safety. Topics include crime, victimization, homicide, civil, family and criminal courts, and correctional services. Issues related to community safety, and perceptions of safety are also covered. The publication is intended for those with an interest in Canada's justice and public safety systems as well as those who plan, establish, administer and evaluate programs and projects related to justice and public safety.

Statista
Contains statistics, charts, tables, and public opinion polls on marketing, demographics, consumers, communication, technology, politics, health, and leisure.

Odesi
Odesi is a Canadian social science data repository and online exploration and analysis tool. It contains 5,700+ datasets curated by academic libraries in Canada.

Ipsos News & Polls
Contains market research and public opinion survey data from Canada, the U.S., and other countries on a wide range of topics.