BCCLA urges speedy resumption of APEC hearings and focus on free speech issues
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association has sent a letter to the Speakers of the House of Commons and Senate, as well as the leaders of all political parties in both […]
BCCLA challenges parties at APEC hearings to put up or shut up
B.C. Civil Liberties Association today challenged parties at the APEC hearings either to pursue their concern that RCMP Public Complaints Commission Chair Gerald Morin is biased, or else work with […]
APEC opening statement
A couple of days after the APEC conference, all the fences were gone from the lawns and roadways, and it was almost as though nothing had happened on our campus […]
APEC and Democracy
CBC Radio, “Commentary” by John Dixon The APEC story runs, as the journalists say, on two very long legs. One of them is the iconographic image of a fifty-something RCMP […]
APEC PROTEST RAISES NEW QUESTIONS ON WHO’S DOING SPYING
Vancouver Sun, 02 October 1998, A19 By John Russell and Andrew Irvine On whose orders was the RCMP compiling files on activists, and what role did CSIS play? These are […]
Just how far should police go to protect dictators?
Editorial from the Vancouver Sun, September 10, 1998 by Andrew Irvine Did police officers use excessive force while trying to control student protesters at last year’s APEC conference in Vancouver? […]
BCCLA intervenes in Surrey book ban case
This week, the B.C. Civil Liberties Association will intervene in the lawsuit James Chamberlain et al. v. The Board of Trustees of School District #36 (Surrey), the Surrey book ban […]
Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium & BCCLA continue fight for free speech and equality
Little Sister’s gay and lesbian bookstore and the B.C. Civil Liberties Association have committed to carry their longstanding battle with Canada Customs to the Supreme Court of Canada. Their commitment […]
Kay Stockholder 1928 1998
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association announces with deep sadness that Kay Stockholder passed away early today, after a year-long battle with cancer. Kay had been a member of the BCCLA […]
Civil rights group defends TWU’s freedoms
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association today began its defence, in the B.C. Court of Appeal, of Trinity Western University’s right to hold unpopular religious views and not suffer state sanctions […]