Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This would amount to a maximum charge of $2.30 per $100 for a 14-day loan. Since the effective annual interest rates on payday loans are over this limit (Alberta and Ontario with the lowest rate of $15 per $100 borrowed, (1.15^(365/14)-1)* 100)), this makes payday loans effectively illegal in the provinces.
Indigenous gangs, as the Criminal Intelligence Service Canada classifies them, have surpassed outlaw motorcycle gangs and Italian organized crime syndicates as the largest single group held in federal prisons, with 1,936 members serving federal sentences. [6] Examples include: Alberta Warriors [7] Indian Mafia [8] Indian Posse [9] Kelowna ...
In Canada, international human rights treaties are, in general, not directly incorporated into domestic law but, rather, are implemented through a variety of laws, policies and programs at the federal, provincial and territorial level. [128] Canada has ratified seven principal UN human rights conventions and covenants:. [124]
The Supreme Court of the Canadian province of British Columbia on Friday blocked new provincial laws against public consumption of illegal substances. The ruling imposes a temporary injunction ...
Canada is a producer and exporter of both cannabis and ecstasy, a trend that harsher penalties for those caught has failed to stop. [19] Recently, the idea of drug courts has gained popularity in Canada, numbering in the hundreds. These drug courts attempt to divert those that violate controlled drugs regulations from prisons into treatment ...
Here's what federal law says about using cats and dogs for meat.
Paypal's user agreement is more than 80 pages long, and it contains an expansive set of rules about when the company can terminate someone's account or freeze their assets. For instance, PayPal ...
Money laundering in Canada is a problem described by professionals in 2019 as a "national crisis," and which has attracted international attention. [1] As of July 2022, a public inquiry is currently being held to gauge the extent of the problem.