Welcome to Our Summer Legal Interns!
Please extend a warm welcome to our Summer Legal Interns: Salman, Arash, Victoria, and Jeremy! We are very excited to have them on board with us this summer. Learn more […]
Rights at the Border – still more…
Summer is finally here! Like many Canadians, a few of us at the BCCLA are planning vacations south of the border this season. Despite the holidays and sunshine, crossing the […]
We’re hiring! Join our team as our next Outreach and Communications Coordinator!
We’re looking for a teammate who is passionate about working with communities to uphold civil liberties and human rights across BC and Canada. With a mandate that includes work on […]
Meet our 2017 Summer Communications and Development Volunteers
Jacqueline Yan Jacqueline is entering her fourth and final year at the UBC Sauder School of Business as a Finance major. Due to her involvement in four extracurricular student-led clubs […]
We’re hiring: defend civil liberties and human rights as our new Community Lawyer
[POSTING IS CLOSED – WE HAVE HIRED FOR THIS POSITION] Are you the next member of the BCCLA team? We’re looking for a lawyer who is passionate about working with […]
An extraordinary victory for citizenship equality
After three years and one hundred and twenty-seven days of work, we’ve defeated the second-class citizenship bill! On Thursday, June 15, 2017 the House of Commons passed Bill C-6 which […]
Welcome Meghan McDermott, Counsel (Policy)
Please extend a huge welcome to Meghan McDermott, BCCLA Counsel (Policy). Meghan joined the BCCLA as staff counsel in March of 2017. With a B.A. in philosophy from Concordia University, her compassion […]
Welcome newly elected Board Directors
Please extend a warm welcome to our four newly elected members of the Board of Directors: Ian Bushfield Ian Bushfield is an advocate for Humanism, science and social justice living […]
No Gag: An Update
The Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in BC FIPA v. AGBC on January 26, 2017. We told you about this case in another blog post back in October, […]
Canadian jurisdictions need anti-SLAPP legislation
SLAPPs are civil lawsuits weaponized for censorship, and even cases that could not succeed on their merits can be strategically successful, since the litigation process is the punishment and not […]
