REMINDER – Media Advisory of Press Conference: Legal, Indigenous, and human rights organizations speak up against police brutality targeting Palestine Solidarity movement
Media Advisory of Press Conference: Legal, Indigenous, and human rights organizations speak up against police brutality targeting Palestine Solidarity movement; lawyers detail avenues being pursued to demand accountability from VPD. […]
Media Advisory of Press Conference: Legal, Indigenous, and human rights organizations speak up against police brutality targeting Palestine Solidarity movement
For Immediate Release Media Advisory of Press Conference: Legal, Indigenous, and human rights organizations speak up against police brutality targeting Palestine Solidarity movement; lawyers detail avenues being pursued to demand […]
BCCLA disappointed by Supreme Court of Canada decision upholding the military court martial system
Ottawa, ON (unceded territory of the Algonquin/Omàmìwininìwag) – The BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) is disappointed in today’s Supreme Court of Canada’s (SCC) decision in R v Edwards et al, […]
Press Release: Seven Years Later and We are Still Waiting for Justice for Dale Culver
Prince George, BC (unceded territory of the Lheidli T’enneh First Nation) – In July 2017, Dale Culver, a 35-year-old Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan man was killed by the RCMP in Prince […]
Media Advisory: BCCLA intervening at Quebec Court of Appeal to end racial profiling through traffic stops
WHAT: BCCLA at the Court of Appeal of Quebec to intervene in Attorney General of Quebec v Luamba et al to end police racial profiling on the road WHEN: March 5 and 6, […]
BCCLA Reacts: BC Supreme Court rules in favor of transparency regarding the public’s right to access information under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
Vancouver, BC (Unceded Coast Salish Territories) – The BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) welcomes the Supreme Court of British Columbia’s decision in British Columbia (Minister of Public Safety) v. British […]
Press Release: BCCLA urges immediate financial assistance for Persons with Disabilities while Canada Disability Benefit in limbo
(Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)/Vancouver, B.C.) – The BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) is calling on the federal government to provide desperately needed interim and retroactive financial assistance […]
Vancouver Park Board Must Halt Operations to Decamp CRAB Park Residents!
(Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)/Vancouver, B.C.) – On Monday, February 26, 2024, the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation issued written notice to CRAB Park residents to leave […]
Press Release: BCCLA at Ontario Court of Appeal to intervene in youth fight to hold Province accountable for breaching Charter rights on impacts of climate change
Toronto, ON (traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples) – The BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) will make oral […]
BC Court of Appeal calls on Residential Tenancy Branch to provide greater clarity on defining when the Residential Tenancy Act protects vulnerable residents
Vancouver, BC (Unceded Coast Salish Territories) – On Friday, January 5, 2024, the BC Court of Appeal (“BCCA”) released its decision in McNeil v. Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, […]