City Orders Anti-Olympic Mural Removed From Gallery
The City of Vancouver has 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 […]
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 (CPC) into the death of […]
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 today, but added that the recommendations ought to go further […]
BCCLA Demands Coroner Call Inquest Into Boyd Death
The BCCLA is demanding that the Coroner call an inquest into the death of Paul Boyd at the hands of the Vancouver Police Department. Recent media reports have suggested that […]
CBC Frees Airwaves for Political Ads After BCCLA Intervenes
The CBC has reversed course and will now allow political advertisements on its airwaves outside of election periods. Advocacy by the BCCLA, combined with a recent Supreme Court of Canada […]
2009 Mary McDonald Contest Winners and New Essay Contest Announced
The BCCLA announced the winners from their first-ever Mary McDonald student essay contest. The contest awards the best post-secondary student essay on a human rights or civil liberties topic that […]
BCCLA Calls On VANOC To Remove Artist Contract “Propaganda Clause”
The BCCLA is calling on the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) to withdraw a clause in its artist contract that limits free expression. The clause requires artists to “refrain from […]
RCMP Agrees to Release Videotape of Willey Death
VANCOUVER – The RCMP has agreed to release the videotape and investigation file of the in-custody, Taser-related death of Clayton Alvin Willey, following a public demand by the BCCLA and […]
VPD Disables Sonic Gun in Response to BCCLA Objections
The Vancouver Police Department has responded to BCCLA demands that it refrain from using their newly acquired LRAD sonic gun as a weapon against protesters by disabling the device’s weapons […]
Community Demands Release of Videotape of In-Custody Death
Representatives of a leading aboriginal and civil society group, along with a forensic pathologist and a journalist gathered yesterday to demand the release of security footage taken in an RCMP […]