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Crime fascinates the public. Whether it is watching television and the movies, or reading detective and crime novels, the criminal justice system enticed the public long before the dawn of the Internet. It could be argued that the fictionalized stories and...
February is Black History month in Canada. It is a time when, across the country, people, organizations, and institutions recognize and celebrate the achievements of African Canadians. Canada’s history is rife with stories of the many contributions that African...
On behalf of the Legal Archives Society of Alberta, I would like to thank the Calgary Bar Association for funding the completion of a publication using LASA's vast collection of Oral History interviews. The edited collection of stories from LASA’s Oral History...
On June 6, 1944, men from Allied nations fighting Nazi tyranny made a harrowing trip across the English Channel to the beaches of Normandy. Leonard Brockington, a Calgary lawyer, was reporting for CBC Radio about the invasion of Europe from the Canadian Destroyer...
On April 9, 1985, James Keegstra, a high school Social Studies teacher from Eckville, Alberta, was put on trial for willfully promoting hatred against an identifiable group, the Jewish people. Between September 1978 and December 1982, Keegstra communicated...
Women in Criminal Justice: True Cases By & About Canadian Women and the Law Book Four in the True Cases Series
THE LEGAL ARCHIVES SOCIETY of ALBERTA (LASA) is proud to announce the production of its first dramatic short film called “The Agreement” written and produced by film and television actor Julian Black Antelope: Blackstone, Penny Dreadful, Arctic Air; and directed by award winning director Michael Peterson: The Wilmore Boys, Tiny Plastic Men, Lloyd The Conqueror.