Step into Canadian Border Services and You May Be on TV
 By Carlos Tello/TheTyee.ca Published on May 8, 2013  After pressure, reality TV producers change sign acting as voluntary agreement to appear on ‘Border Security.’ Less than a year […]
Border (In)security: Deportation is Not Entertainment
A Panel Discussion Presented by the Criminology Voices Series and the Critical Criminology Working Group Featuring Micheal Vonn, BC Civil Liberties Association, on the implications of turning CBSA raids into entertainment […]
CPD Course: Criminal and Civil Liability for War Crimes, Genocide and Torture
Join BCCLA Senior Counsel Carmen Cheung on Saturday, October 13th as she discusses accountability for Canadian complicity in torture at the Canadian Centre for International Justice’s continuing professional development course. […]
What’s bogus?
The government is keeping us busy this week. Two days after tabling the “lawful access” bill, government tabled Bill C-31, the so-called “Protecting Canada’s Immigration System Act”, a draconian overhaul […]
Meaning what you say, saying what you mean
Last Thursday, the Conservative government reintroduced its so-called anti-smuggling bill. The bill seeks to penalize asylum seekers who attempt to enter Canada through purportedly “irregular” means by creating two classes […]
“Once you give the name to the Americans, that’s the end of the game.”
This week, Neil Macdonald at the CBC has been reporting on WikiLeaks cables illustrating how Canada shares intelligence on Canadian citizens and residents with the United States. That CSIS routinely […]
CBSA laptop search documents
In late February, shortly after the story we posted about the Canada Border Services Agency delaying our request for documents on their policies on searching laptops and other personal electronics, […]
Databases: We’ll show you ours if you show us yours
The Afghan detainee file has been taking up a lot of our time lately, but the BCCLA national security team hasn’t dropped the ball on other issues. One area we’ve […]
CBSA delays laptop search Access to Information request
The BCCLA has been following reports of searches of laptops, smartphones, and other electronic devices by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) for some time now. We’ve come across a lot […]