The UN’s Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and association has invited countries, national human rights institutions and NGOs to complete a questionnaire on best practices in the protection of freedom of peaceful assembly and association. The CCLA has submitted a response to the questionnaire that aims to address the positive protections that exist in Canada [...]
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The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has been writing to mayors in cities across Canada to express its concerns about the management of the Occupy protests. Letter to the Mayor of Calgary >> [...] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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The “Occupy Wall Street” movement spread to Canada in mid-October with protests and occupations beginning in a number of cities around the country on October 15, 2011. CCLA is concerned that a number of cities have recently started to suggest that protestors must leave and are considering taking various forms of action to put an [...] On Thursday June 23rd, over 100 people gathered at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law to listen to a panel discussion featuring lawyers and activists to discuss police accountability and the lessons learned amid the aftermath of the G20 controversy. For the video archive of the discussion + Q&A session, please click here
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