Welcome Maggie Knight, BCCLA’s Operations Manager
Please extend a huge welcome to Maggie Knight, BCCLA’s first Operations Manager. Maggie has just joined the team last week. Previously, Maggie ran communications and operations at RADIUS, a social […]
Assisted dying bill: suffering Canadians left behind
This morning the federal government released its long awaited bill on medically assisted dying. While the legislation permits assisted dying for adults suffering from physical illnesses, and does not include some […]
Montreal’s Crackdown on Dissent has No Place in a Free and Democratic Canada
Over the last three weeks the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) has engaged in cracking down on expressions of dissent in shocking and deeply troubling ways. […]
On the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and the narrowing of acceptable speech
On Tuesday, February 23, the House of Commons voted to formally condemn the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. The full text of the motion, introduced by the Conservatives, reads: […]
Cannabis at home: why today’s ruling is so important
The BCCLA is thrilled by today’s historic court decision declaring that the current rules imposed on medical cannabis patients are unconstitutional. The Federal Court has given the federal government six months […]
Getting Charter rights right
The BCCLA has been in court a LOT over the past several years. We’ve launched challenges to the prohibition on physician assisted dying, indefinite solitary confinement and second-class citizenship, and […]
In praise of police judo
JUDO, THE GENTLE WAY During law school, I contemplated going on to do a Master’s Degree in Criminology at Oxford. I even pitched the head of the department with a […]
Yet another reason to oppose mandatory minimum sentences
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in the Criminal Justice System As one of its 94 calls to action,[1] the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools called on “the […]
The BCCLA is hiring an Operations Manager!
The BC Civil Liberties Association seeks an Operations Manager to support us in achieving our human rights and civil liberties mandate through the design, implementation and management of office […]
Art for a Cause
In 2014, the BC Civil Liberties Association honoured one outspoken voice with a Liberty award for Excellence in the Arts for her refusal to sit idly by while her work […]