Report: legal protections needed to catch-up with genetic technology
The BCCLA is issuing a report today that calls for legal protections to catch-up with advances in genetic technology. Genetic technologies have inherent risks because they provide highly sensitive information […]
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but it isn’t, it ain’t.
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic. (1) Happy 2012 from the BCCLA National […]
Extraordinary assistance
The CBC is reporting today that U.S. flight logs show Canadian involvement in CIA extraordinary rendition flights: Reprieve, based in London, said a chartered plane long suspected of transferring prisoners […]
Anti-smuggling, or anti-Charter?
The Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers (CARL) may be only a little over a month old, but they’ve already published a terrific paper on the unconstitutionality of Bill C-4, the […]
46 percent
Today, the BCCLA and Amnesty International Canada renewed calls for the Canadian government to convene a public inquiry into the Afghan detainee scandal, following yesterday’s publication of a report by […]
Whispers and innuendo
Today, the BCCLA wrote to the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Public Safety about a recent government leak of purported intelligence information implicating two Canadians in a terrorist […]
A hit, a very palpable hit
Good news from the Federal Court this morning. As those of you who have been following our work at the Military Police Complaints Commission (MPCC) may recall, the Department of […]
Second verse, same as the first
Last week, the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC) published a declassified version of its review into CSIS’s role in interviewing Afghan detainees. Shortly following media reports in early 2010 that […]
No complicity in torture
Today, the BCCLA sent a letter to Minister of Justice Robert Nicholson, urging him to ensure that Canadian citizens are protected against foreign prosecutions relying on evidence derived from torture. […]
“Gentlemen at home, hoodlums elsewhere.”
Last week, the European Court of Human Rights (“ECHR”) issued an excellent judgment on the issue of extraterritorial application of human rights instruments in the case of Al-Skeini and Others […]
