Art for a Cause

  In 2014, the BC Civil Liberties Association honoured one outspoken voice with a Liberty award for Excellence in the Arts for her refusal to sit idly by while her work […]

Media Democracy Days

Media, democracy, and you: how to find the news that feeds us BCCLA Executive Director Josh Paterson will join an outstanding roster of journalists, media producers, politicians, communication scholars, activists, and social […]

Freedom of expression and criticism of Israel

  The BC Civil Liberties Association is deeply concerned about the effects on freedom of expression of recent changes to hate speech laws and the 2015 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) […]

Foreign Radical: a theatrical game and panel

Theatre Conspiracy presents a mobile interactive theatre experience for 20 participants per showing to explore the issues of surveillance, security, terrorism, profiling, privacy, and freedom of expression. Participants are invited to team up, debate, […]

Legal workshop at The State of Extraction Conference

As part of the State of Extraction Conference, BCCLA Executive Director Josh Paterson and West Coast Environmental Law will provide a workshop on the legal rights of those protesting resource extraction […]