Request for privacy law changes worries BCCLA
By Jason Howe / http://www.news1130.com/2014/03/02/request-for-privacy-law-changes-worries-bccla/ Published on March 2, 2014 VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Amid a rise in mental health cases, Vancouver police are calling for privacy law changes. Civil liberties […]
Rights groups want independent CBSA watchdog
 By Thomas Molander/ News 1130 http://www.news1130.com/2014/03/05/rights-groups-want-independent-cbsa-watchdog/  Published March 5, 2014 VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – The BC Civil Liberties Association is again stressing the need for an independent body that can review […]
BC Civil Rights Group Calls for Independent Oversight of Federal Border Agency
By The Canadian Press for The Vancouver Sun / http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Rights+group+calls+independent+oversight+federal+border+agency/9582352/story.html Published on March 5, 2014 Â VANCOUVER – A B.C.-based civil rights group is renewing its call for independent oversight […]
Call for oversight of border police ignored, B.C. group says
By The Canadian Press for the Globe and Mail / http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/call-for-oversight-of-border-police-ignored-bc-group-says/article17321112/ Published on Mar. 05 2014 A B.C.-based civil rights group is renewing its call for independent oversight of the […]
Mentally ill inmates increasingly held in solitary confinement at Canadian prisons
By Travis Lupick  / The Georgia Straight http://www.straight.com/news/602746/mentally-ill-inmates-increasingly-held-solitary-confinement-canadian-prisons Published March 6, 2014 This article is the second in a three-part series. Part one is available here: “Deaths in solitary […]
BC Appeal Court refuses to water down province’s drunk driving laws
By Vivian Luk / The Canadian Press http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/b-c-appeal-court-refuses-to-water-down-province-s-drunk-driving-laws-1.1712306 Published on March 3, 2014  VANCOUVER — The British Columbia Appeal Court has refused to water down the province’s tough drunk-driving laws that […]
B.C. court backs drunk-driving bans
By Michael Mui / 24 Hours Vancouver Published on March 3, 2014 B.C. Civil Liberties Association lawyer Raji Mangat speaks to reporters outside the B.C. Court of Appeal on Monday. (JASON […]
Drinking and driving law upheld by B.C. Court of Appeal
CBC News / http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/drinking-and-driving-law-upheld-by-b-c-court-of-appeal-1.2557913 Published March,3  2014 The B.C. Court of Appeal has upheld the constitutionality of automatic penalties under B.C.’s drinking and driving law. The B.C. Civil Liberties Association had […]
Deaths in solitary confinement prompt B.C. coroner’s inquest and calls for reform
By Travis Lupick / The Georgia Straight –Â http://www.straight.com/news/593786/deaths-solitary-confinement-prompt-bc-coroners-inquest-and-calls-reform Published on Feb 26, 2014 This article is the first in a three-part series. On September 27, 2011, Kyle Darren Tombaught […]
Inquest called into Mexican woman’s death
By David P. Ball, 24 hours Vancouver- http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/2014/02/25/inquest-called-into-mexican-womans-death Wednesday, February 26, 2014 A vigil was held to honour Lucia Vega Jimenez’s life in front Canada Border Services Agency […]