BCCLA condemns mayor Owen’s crusade against Hemp B.C.
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association condemns the City of Vancouver’s continuing harassment of Hemp B.C. and the Cannabis Café. In the latest of a series of strikes, the City’s lawyers […]
APEC opening statement
A couple of days after the APEC conference, all the fences were gone from the lawns and roadways, and it was almost as though nothing had happened on our campus […]
Towards equality of opportunity
This article appeared in University Affairs, October 1998. by Andrew Irvine Among this year’s federal government award winners for employment equity are the University of British Columbia and University of […]
APEC and Democracy
CBC Radio, “Commentary” by John Dixon The APEC story runs, as the journalists say, on two very long legs. One of them is the iconographic image of a fifty-something RCMP […]
APEC PROTEST RAISES NEW QUESTIONS ON WHO’S DOING SPYING
Vancouver Sun, 02 October 1998, A19 By John Russell and Andrew Irvine On whose orders was the RCMP compiling files on activists, and what role did CSIS play? These are […]
Just how far should police go to protect dictators?
Editorial from the Vancouver Sun, September 10, 1998 by Andrew Irvine Did police officers use excessive force while trying to control student protesters at last year’s APEC conference in Vancouver? […]
Rights group dismayed by Scott’s decision not to fund counsel for APEC protesters
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association is dismayed by Solicitor General Andy Scott’s decision not to fund legal counsel for the students opposed to APEC whose protest signs were removed, and […]
BCCLA demands funding for APEC complainants
Public hearings begin September 14th into the actions of the RCMP during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Conference at the University of British Columbia in 1997. The hearing was […]
Freedom of speech challenge likely to go to country’s top court
Today the United States is the democracy that places the highest value on freedom of expression. In its early years, however, the republic held speech rights in much lower esteem. […]
BCCLA intervenes in Surrey book ban case
This week, the B.C. Civil Liberties Association will intervene in the lawsuit James Chamberlain et al. v. The Board of Trustees of School District #36 (Surrey), the Surrey book ban […]
