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News Release Coalition Submits Complaint for the Cancellation of the VPD Trespass Prevention Program

Posted on June 15, 2021

News Release BCCLA Reacts: Supreme Court of Canada confirms that protecting personal privacy can justify limits on the open court principle

Posted on June 11, 2021

News Release BCCLA Reacts: Federal Court of Appeal Rules that Site-Blocking Orders are Constitutional

Posted on May 26, 2021

News Release Press Release: Civil Liberties Group and Legal Observers Condemn RCMP Actions at Fairy Creek

Posted on May 21, 2021

News Release Vancouver Police Endanger Indigenous Women and Child on MMIWG Day of Awareness

Posted on May 7, 2021

News Release BCCLA Reacts: Supreme Court Rules that Law Restricting Youth Appeal Rights is Constitutional

Posted on May 7, 2021

News Release BCCLA Response to New BC Travel Restrictions (COVID-19) Order No. 2

Posted on April 30, 2021

News Release Civil Liberties, Indigenous Rights, and Community Groups Respond to BC Travel Restrictions Order

Posted on April 23, 2021

News Release BCCLA Reacts: Supreme Court of Canada Dismisses Police Entrapment Case

Posted on April 15, 2021

News Release Press Release: Civil Liberties Group Files Argument in RCMP Commissioner Lawsuit

Posted on April 1, 2021

News Release Media Advisory: BCCLA at Federal Court of Appeal to defend free expression in website blocking case

Posted on March 23, 2021

News Release Indigenous Youth Condemn VPD Brutality and Charges Laid for Peaceful Sit-In; Call on Canada to End Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion

Posted on February 22, 2021

News Release Human Rights Complainants Give New VPD Street Check Audit a Failing Grade in Annotated Response; Call on Vancouver Police Board to Ban Street Checks

Posted on February 18, 2021

News Release BCCLA Reacts: Privacy Investigation Finds Law Enforcement Agencies in Canada Used Illegal Mass Surveillance Software Tool

Posted on February 3, 2021

News Release Coalition of Organizations Call for End to Vancouver Police Department Trespass Prevention Program

Posted on January 28, 2021

News Release Press Release: Alberta Court of Appeal Denies Benefits to Young Adults Raised in Government Care

Posted on January 27, 2021

News Release PRESS RELEASE: Civil Liberties Group Calls for BC to Revise Policy that Separates Care Home Residents from Loved Ones

Posted on December 17, 2020

News Release PRESS RELEASE: Civil Liberties Group and Advocates Condemn RCMP Spying; Cite Unconstitutional Chilling Effect across Canada

Posted on December 15, 2020

News Release Media Advisory: BCCLA to Question Witnesses on Civil Asset Forfeiture at Cullen Commission

Posted on December 10, 2020

News Release In Memory of Joseph J. Arvay (1949 – 2020)

Posted on December 7, 2020

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