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News Release Delegation Appearing at Vancouver Police Board to Demand Ban on Police Street Checks; Over Ninety Organizations Call for Street Check Ban

Posted on September 17, 2020

News Release Civil Liberties organization goes to court against Alberta legislation giving government sweeping new powers without legislative oversight

Posted on September 14, 2020

News Release BCCLA celebrates Supreme Court decisions protecting victims of legal intimidation subjected to SLAPP suits

Posted on September 10, 2020

News Release Civil Liberties and Indigenous Rights Groups Call on CRCC to Immediately Take Conduct of Investigation into Wet’suwet’en Land Defender’s Police Complaint

Posted on August 27, 2020

News Release Important win for access to justice: BC Court of Appeal denies the BC government’s attempt to slam courthouse doors on disability rights case

Posted on August 26, 2020

News Release Press Release: Rights Groups Call for Names of VPD Officers Engaged in Misconduct during Street Check Review Ride-Alongs

Posted on August 6, 2020

News Release Press Release: BCCLA raises free expression concerns in website-blocking case

Posted on August 4, 2020

News Release Media Advisory of Press Conference: Bill 22 Stands to Increase the Opioid Crisis and Youth Deaths; Bill 22 Must be Withdrawn

Posted on July 24, 2020

News Release Press Release: Lack of Planning in Bill 22 Would See Increased Drug Fatalities for Indigenous Youth in the Midst of Opioid Crisis

Posted on July 22, 2020

News Release Press release: Over Seventy Organizations Call for Ban on Police Street Checks

Posted on July 6, 2020

News Release Press Release: Rights Groups Release OPCC Letter Calling into Question Street Checks Review

Posted on June 25, 2020

News Release Press Release: BCCLA Celebrates Important Supreme Court of Canada Decision on Bail Conditions

Posted on June 18, 2020

News Release Press Release: One Decade Later, Father of Police Shooting Says “Nothing Has Changed”

Posted on June 17, 2020

News Release Organizations Call on Mayor Kennedy Stewart to Implement Immediate Ban on Racist Police Street Checks in Vancouver

Posted on June 11, 2020

News Release Rights Groups Conclude Solitary Confinement Cases at Supreme Court of Canada

Posted on May 27, 2020

News Release PRESS RELEASE: BCCLA raises serious concerns about privacy rights and civil liberties at B.C.’s public inquiry into money laundering

Posted on May 25, 2020

News Release MEDIA ADVISORY: BCCLA to argue for human rights and civil liberties at Cullen Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia

Posted on May 22, 2020

News Release BCCLA Reacts: Canada Border Services Agency officers investigated for hundreds of misconduct complaints

Posted on May 12, 2020

News Release BCCLA Reacts: Court dismisses constitutional challenge to Canada’s flawed prison needle exchange program

Posted on May 4, 2020

News Release Thirty-Eight Rights Groups Call on BC’s Chief Coroner to Direct Immediate Public Inquest into Death in Corrections Custody

Posted on April 28, 2020

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