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 […]

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 […]

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 […]