My week for finding things that have been around for ages, in this case LawNow, a magazine and, as LawNow.org [1], a website with associated services. The tagline for LawNow is “relating law to life in Canada,” which, you might guess, means that it’s aimed at real people rather than legal folk. I can see that it might be useful in a highschool law course. The mag is by subscription only ($26/year); a subscription to LawNow Plus ($89/yr) gets you the magazine and alerts about changes to legislation or information on selected cases as well as access to the full 10-year database of back issues.
There’s a sample issue [2] of the magazine available for examining online (in PDF).
This is one of a cluster of services emanating from the Alberta Legal Resource Centre [3], the best known of which is probably the Access to Justice Network [4].