BC Civil Liberties Association Update December 2009

 

 

BCCLA Launches National Security Blog

The BCCLA’s new National Security blog brings you updates on the breaking national security issues of the day, with informed commentary and insight.


Police Reserve the Right to Take Over Activist Groups for 2010

In a letter promising that undercover police officers and agents will not provoke others into violence, the head of the 2010 Olympic police force has refused to promise that his undercover officers won’t take over and direct the activities of activist groups, or commit illegal acts themselves.


City Orders Anti-Olympic Mural Removed From Gallery

The City of Vancouver shut down the public art space that has existed, uninterrupted since 2003, in front of the Crying Room gallery at 157 East Cordova Street following the posting of an anti-Olympic mural.


BCCLA Endorses Report, Says Olympic Police Can Do Better

The BCCLA announced its general support for a series of recommendations issued by the 2010 Olympic Civil Liberties Advisory Committee.


BCCLA Supports RCMP Complaints Body That RCMP Not Self-Investigate

The BCCLA endorsed a key recommendation that the RCMP no longer investigate itself in today’s report by the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP into the death of Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver International Airport.


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