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Consumer protection and fraud
Resources about legal topics relevant to consumers (people buying goods and services), including such topics as consumer rights and responsibilities, resolving disputes between buyers and sellers, insurance, advertising, and scams. Fraud is lying or deceiving to make a profit or gain an advantage, or to cause someone else a loss or disadvantage.
See also keywords: Credit and debt, Contracts, Bankruptcy and foreclosure, Privacy
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There are laws to protect people from being treated unfairly, but it still happens sometimes. In dealing with these situations, it is often hard to know who is right, where to start, or what to do if the problem isn’t easily solved. This guide from the Centre for Public Legal Education Alberta describes seven steps to sorting out any legal problem. This 8 page PDF is available for free download.
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These online videos are provided by the Alberta Community Crime Prevention Association and cover a range of topics such as gangs, drugs and a number of different types of fraud.
Related keywords: Drugs and alcohol (23), Gangs (11)
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The Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) is a quasi-judicial independent agency established by the Government of Alberta to regulate investor-owned natural gas, electric, and water utilities and certain municipally owned electric utilities to ensure that customers receive safe and reliable service at just and reasonable rates. The AUC’s Utilities Complaints telephone line is for customers who have been unable to resolve a dispute with the natural gas, electricity or water utility provider or Albertan's who have questions or concerns about utility services in general.
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The General Insurance OmbudService (GIO) is an independent, not-for-profit corporation that has been in operation since 2002 providing dispute resolution services for conflicts between complainants and their insurers in the areas of home, auto and business insurance. GIO’s neutral and professional mediators and experienced Information Officers help complainants and insurance companies work toward a solution that is in the best interests of both parties in a fair, independent and impartial environment. (PDF - 2 pages)
Related keywords: Advocacy (61), Business (69), Mediation and alternative dispute resolution (43)
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The Better Business Bureau (BBB) of Central and Northern Alberta was founded in 1957 and is a non-profit membership association of business and professional firms. They are a public service agency devoted to the vitality of the free enterprise system and the concerns of the consuming public. They are not a government agency.
Related keywords: Business (69)
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An educated marketplace is a happy, well-functioning marketplace. With this in mind, the Better Business Bureau of Southern Alberta offers information and dispute resolution services to consumer and business alike. This bureau has information files on more than 15,000 companies. They are only an e-mail or phone call away.
Related keywords: Business (69)
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This Alberta government department investigates consumer complaints, enforces consumer protection legislation, licenses and registers regulated businesses and charitable organizations and informs consumers and businesses of their rights and responsibilities.
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The Better Business Bureau of Central & Northern Alberta offers a dispute resolution service to consumers and businesses that has a two-fold goal: Helping the consumer with a marketplace problem. Helping legitimate businesses correct or remove by voluntary action the source and cause of the complaint.
Related keywords: Business (69)
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Misunderstandings, miscommunications, and mistakes happen: your BBB’s Dispute Settlement Centre is available to help consumers and businesses resolve marketplace quarrels when they arise. Your BBB assists companies to resolve disputes by providing mediation and arbitration services. Unique to this BBB is our ability to provide both in-house resolution services to companies and outsource the management of dispute resolution programs for a select group of clients, such as acting as the Arbitration Administrator for the Jurisdictional Assignment Plan of the Alberta Construction Industry.
Related keywords: Business (69)
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Fraud Squad TV (Fraudcast.ca) is an educational website offering videos, examples and explanations of a broad range of types of fraud, ranging from Adoption Fraud to Wi-Fi Fraud. Videos are arranged by topic in alphabetical order on the left, for easy navigation. There are also links for you to add your experience of fraud, as well as a Help Me! page, which helps you understand whether or not you have been the victim of fraud and tells you what to do if you have.
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