Beyond Prohibition Conference: Legal Cannabis in Canada
BEYOND PROHIBITION CONFERENCE:Â LEGAL CANNABIS IN CANADA May 8, 2004 Wosk Centre For Dialogue Vancouver, BC Statement of R. Keith Stroup, Esq. Executive Director National Organization for the Reform of […]
Civil Liberties Aspects of Homelessness: General Reflections
Introduction The mandate of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (the “Association”) is to preserve, defend, maintain and extend civil liberties and human rights in British Columbia and across Canada. […]
Squatters’ Rights
Introduction The BC Civil Liberties Association recognizes the right of the homeless to take semi-permanent shelter in public parkland, subject to reasonable limitations. This right is based in the more […]
A National ID Card For All Canadians? Fools’ Gold or the Mother Lode of All Databases?
I. Introduction The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA), Canada’s oldest and most active civil liberties organization, has been defending freedom since 1962. To further our mandate, we engage in […]
Video Surveillance in Public Schools: A Position of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association
The BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) is one of the oldest and most active civil liberties associations in Canada. In business since 1962, the Association is run by a Board […]
The Teaching and Workshop Guide for ESL Teachers and Settlement Counselors
The overall theme of The Citizenship Handbook and this Guide is citizenship, and its rights and responsibilities. We hope to encourage citizens – both individually and in groups – to […]
Submission of the BCCLA to the Standing Committee on Health on Draft Assisted Human Reproduction Legislation
Thank you Madam Chairperson and thanks to the Committee for the opportunity to make submissions on the Draft Legislation on Assisted Human Reproduction on behalf of the B.C. Civil Liberties […]
Submission regarding White Paper on proposed amendments to section 25
Executive summary In the submission that follows we argue that discussion on expanding the scope of criminal immunity for police officers must be informed not only by considerations of the […]
Democracy and aboriginal self government: Considering the rights of non-aboriginal residents in First Nation jurisdictions
In 1999, a group of non-band leaseholders on Vancouver’s Musqueam Indian reserve expressed concerns to the B.C. Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) that they were treated unfairly under the Musqueam Band’s […]
Comments on The Vancouver Police Department DISC Program
I. Introduction Vancouver Police Department’s D.I.S.C. (Deter, Identify, Sex-Trade Consumers) Program has three components: stopping the cars of potential sex trade consumers (“johns”) who cruise around prostitution “strolls”, continually stop […]