How to Die in Oregon – Film Screening
Come, watch & dialogue about “How to Die in Oregon”: a balanced & intricate documentary film about assisted suicide/right-to-die @ the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema (SFU Woodwards) on Wednesday April […]
BCCLA argues in HIV transmission and exposure cases at the Supreme Court of Canada
Ottawa – On Wednesday, February 8, 2012, the BCCLA will argue before the Supreme Court of Canada in Her Majesty the Queen v. Clato Lual Mabior and Her Majesty the […]
Dying with Dignity – Film Screening at the Vancouver International Film Festival
How to Die in Oregon 7:15 pm In one of the year’s most compelling documentaries, Peter Richardson provides an intimate, provocative and profoundly moving portrait of several terminally ill Oregonians […]
Human Rights Groups: STOP HIV/AIDS Project Fails to Inform Patients of New Privacy Risks
On the eve of World AIDS Day, the BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) and the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network are calling on the STOP HIV/AIDS Project to stop disseminating misleading […]
Seriously ill patients and family members urge the B.C. Supreme Court to allow for the right to die with dignity
Vancouver – Plaintiffs in the BCCLA’s death with dignity case head to the B.C. Supreme Court tomorrow to challenge the laws that make it a crime for physicians to assist […]
Gloria Taylor heads to court seeking legal right to die with dignity
Vancouver – On Wednesday, November 30, 2011, the BCCLA will hold a press conference with Gloria Taylor, a British Columbia woman with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, who […]
Cross-examinations in dying with dignity lawsuit begin
Vancouver – On Monday, November 14 at 9:30 a.m. the Supreme Court of British Columbia will hear expert evidence in Carter v. Canada, the BCCLA’s court case challenging the laws […]
Health Canada’s Plan for Medical Cannabis Will Violate Patients’ Rights, says the BCCLA
Today the BC Civil Liberties Association called for sweeping reforms to Health Canada’s Medical Marihuana Access Program (MMAP). Health Canada is preparing to amend the MMAP, but the BCCLA say […]
Woman with ALS asks court for legal right to die with dignity
Vancouver, BC: Nearly two decades after Sue Rodriguez fought for the right to die with dignity, another British Columbia woman with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, has come […]
BCCLA to challenge criminalization of safe injection facility at Supreme Court of Canada
Ottawa – On Thursday, May 12 the BCCLA will argue before the Supreme Court of Canada in PHS Community Services Society v. Canada (Attorney General) and Vancouver Area Network of […]
