BCCLA Calls for Government Investigation and Action Against VANOC’S Unconscionable Efforts to Stifle Free Speech
VANOC’s efforts to monopolize billboards and other advertising venues and crowd out the ability of anyone else to engage in free speech have been found out. VANOC’s purchase includes all […]
BCCLA Applauds Supreme Court of Canada Decision in Media Defamation Case
The BCCLA is encouraged by the Supreme Court of Canada judgment in Simpson v. Mair and WIC Radio, which dismissed an action for defamation against Rafe Mair. The court ruled […]
BCCLA Continues to Oppose Ad Restrictions in Amended Bill 42
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association is giving a failing grade to the Liberal government’s amendments to Bill 42’s third party advertising restrictions that impose limits on advertising before and during […]
Censorship on Trial: BCCLA Applies to Intervene in Important Free Speech Cases
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association is applying for leave to intervene in two important free speech cases before the federal and British Columbia human rights tribunals. At issue in both […]
BCCLA Opposes Ad Resitrictions in Bill 42
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association is calling on the provincial government of British Columbia to eliminate third party advertising restrictions on advertising 120 days before and during an election campaign. […]
BCCLA Calls on CanWest to Drop its Legal Action Against Accused Satirists
In an open letter, the B.C. Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) is calling on CanWest to drop its lawsuit against Mordecai Briemberg and a local publisher, Horizons Publications over an alleged […]
Court of Appeal says Translink must accept political advertising
The BC Court of Appeal overturned a 2004 decision by BC Transit and Translink to refuse a request by the Canadian Federation of Students to place paid advertising designed to […]
BCCLA asks York School Board and Canadian Jewish Congress to reconsider their opposition to Three Wishes
The BC Civil Liberties Association today released an open letter to the York School Board in Ontario, and the Canadian Jewish Congress, calling on both bodies to reconsider the steps […]
Brief of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association re Bill C-2
The two principal objections of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association to the proposed amendments to the child pornography statutes can be succinctly stated: 1. Possessing a “legitimate purpose” is an […]
BCCLA set to intervene in Court of Appeal on teacher free speech case
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association will make its argument today in the case of Kempling v. College of Teachers. Mr. Kempling is the former Quesnel high school teacher and counselor […]
