BC Court of Appeal to Hear Arguments on Sex Workers’ Right to Challenge Prostitution Laws
Vancouver, B.C. – The BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) will appear in the BC Court of Appeal on Thursday, January 21 and Friday, January 22, 2010, to intervene on behalf […]
Read this: “The Guantanamo ‘Suicides’”
Photo: takomabibelot In an upcoming article in the March issue of Harper’s, Scott Horton reports on a possible (and ongoing) cover-up of the circumstances surrounding the death of three Guantanamo […]
Make Government Compensate Victims for Charter Violations
Make government compensate victims for Charter violations, BCCLA argues in Supreme Court of Canada Vancouver, B.C. – The BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) and the David Asper Centre for Constitutional […]
Court set to rule on future of supervised injection site
Vancouver, B.C. – The future of Insite, Vancouver’s supervised injection site, will be revealed by the BC Court of Appeal on Friday. The Court will release its decision in two […]
Seeing through airport scanner rhetoric
The BCCLA unpacks the Canadian response to the Underwear Bomber, pointing out critical flaws in the body scanning machines that will be appearing in Canadian airports in the near future. […]
BCCLA Hosting Police-Involved Deaths Talk at Vancity Theatre
Vancouver, B.C. – The BCCLA is welcoming national and international experts in policeinvolved and in-custody deaths to Vancouver for a free public forum on in-custody deaths January 21, 2010 from […]
Security Measures for Vancouver 2010
Vancouver, B.C. – The BCCLA is endorsing the statement of Canadian and International researchers who study “mega-event” security. Surveillance and privacy experts have called on Canada to “moderate the escalation […]
BCCLA Releases the Best and the Worst
HOTTIES: Richard Colvin For courageously bringing relevant evidence before the parliamentary committee on Afghan detainees; for speaking the truth to a hostile government that is playing mean and dirty to […]
Police Reserve the Right to Take Over Activist Groups for 2010
Vancouver, B.C. – In a letter promising that undercover police officers and agents will not provoke others into violence, the head of the 2010 Olympic police force has refused to […]
BCCLA Launches National Security Blog
For years, the BC Civil Liberties Association has been at the centre of Canadian national security issues. The BCCLA’s new National Security blog (http://nationalsecurity.bccla.org) now brings you updates on the […]
