Our winter 2010 edition of NewsNotes, CCLA’s bi-annual newsletter, is now available for download. If you are a member of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, you will be receiving a hard copy in the mail in the coming days. New members also receive a copy of the most recent NewsNotes in [...]
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By Communications on May 14, 2012
Introduction Major Concerns Specific Issues Background Quick Links Over a year and a half after the Canadian Civil Liberties Association’s original G20 complaint, the Commission for Public Complaints Against the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (“the Commssion”) has released its final report into RCMP conduct during the 2010 G8 and G20 summits. CCLA welcomes the long-awaited report as an important step in [...]
By Communications on May 14, 2012
MEDIA ADVISORY Media contact: Anti-Bullying Bill 13 – CCLA To Make Submissions At Queen’s Park Today TORONTO – May 14, 2012 – The Canadian Civil Liberties Association’s Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, Director of the Equality Program, will be speaking today at 3:30 p.m. to the Standing Committee on Social Policy during the public [...]
By Abby Deshman on May 10, 2012
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association welcomes the Ontario Court of Appeal’s ruling in Peel (Police) v. Ontario (Special Investigations Unit) (formerly Metcalf v. Scott), which found that Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (“SIU”) had the authority to investigate the alleged crimes of a former Peel region police officer. CCLA intervened in this case as part of [...]
By Communications on May 10, 2012
Since February 2012, CCLA has been monitoring a freedom of expression case out of New Brunswick, in which a local blogger, Charles Leblanc, had been charged with criminal libel under Section 301, a contentious provision of the Criminal Code, for comments he made about a Fredericton police officer. CCLA wrote to the Fredericton police chief [...]
By Communications on May 9, 2012
Earlier this morning the Alberta Court of Appeal released its decision in the Pridgen v. University of Calgary case. The case raised questions around whether students at public universities were entitled to freedom of expression on social networking sites, for the purpose of criticizing their instructors and educational institutions. In this case, two brothers, Keith [...]
By Communications on May 9, 2012
PRESS RELEASE Media contact: CCLA Reacts To Minister Jason Kenney’s Proposed Amendments To Bill C-31 TORONTO – May 9, 2012 – While the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) welcomes the Minister of Immigration’s announcement that the Government is proposing amendments to Bill C-31, the Protecting Canada’s Immigration System Act, CCLA believes the [...]
By Communications on May 9, 2012
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is set to appear before the Supreme Court in A.B. v. Bragg Communications Inc., a case that raises questions around the open court principle, freedom of expression, and access to justice in the context of a case involving a minor who had been cyber-bullied. In March 2010, a youth in Nova [...]
By Abby Deshman on May 9, 2012
CCLA appeared before the Ontario Court of Appeal in R. v. Mernagh to argue that the government must ensure that ill patients who would benefit from the use of marijuana for medical purposes have practical access to the drug. The government’s current regulatory regime, set out under the Marihuana Medical Access Regulations, allows ill Canadian [...]
By Communications on May 1, 2012
Dear CCLA supporters, April has been a busy month at CCLA. Freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly need to be protected and there are threats throughout Canada. You will read as well our concerns about Bill c-31 which proposes detention without any judicial review for 12 months for people seeking refugee status in Canada. This [...]
By Communications on April 30, 2012
MEDIA ADVISORY Media contact: PRESS CONFERENCE: TORONTO – April 30, 2012 – The Canadian Civil Liberties, the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants and Ryerson University are hosting a media conference on Tuesday May 1st at 10 a.m. on the topic of [...] |
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