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Consumer Protection: Debt Settlement Service Agreements

Recorded on February 29, 2016 – Your charge cards are maxed out, the collection agencies keep calling, and your income is being garnished — you need help before you sink beneath a growing pile of bills. Both credit counselling agencies and debt settlement services companies promise to help you to manage your debt repayment and get you back on your feet financially.

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Consumer Protection: Door-to-Door Sales – Water Heater Sales and Rentals 2016

Recorded on February 8, 2016 – While you may not find a salesperson knocking at your door with the latest and greatest vacuum cleaner anymore, the sometimes unsavoury world of door-to-door sales is still alive and well. Some of the most outrageous claims and trickery in the door-to-door world now relate to water heater sales.

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Consumer Protection: Wireless Services (Cell Phone) Contracts – 2016 Update

Recorded on February 1, 2016 – This webinar looks at cell phone and other wireless services agreements in light of the new rights and protections that consumers have under the Ontario Wireless Services Act and the federal Wireless Code.

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After Bill S-7: Women and New Laws Affecting Marriage

Recorded on January 29, 2016  – Bill S-7, the Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act was passed last year. It makes changes to law affecting forced and underage marriage, and may have immigration effects for women in polygamous relationships.

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Migrant Workers and Access to Social Benefits in Ontario

June 18, 2015 at 12:30 p.m. ET – This webinar from the Inter-clinic Migrant Workers Working Group is for migrant workers (temporary foreign workers and non-status people), their allies, community organizations and community legal clinics.

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