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The CCLA has written a letter to the Université du Québec en Outaouais to communicate our concerns related to the arrest of Professor Thibault Martin earlier this week, and to invite the University to do everything in its power to ensure that charges brought against faculty and student participants in peaceful protests be dropped. The CCLA [...] The Supreme Court of Canada has released its decision in Les editions Ecosociété Inc, et al. v. Banro Corporation, a case in which CCLA intervened. It has dismissed publisher Ecosociété’s appeal, finding that Ontario is an appropriate forum for Banro’s defamation suit against it. Concerns had been raised that the choice to sue in Ontario [...] CCLA has written to Western University to express concern over its apparent banning of two community members from campus. Media reports suggest that two London protestors have been banned from the university campus for one year for “participating in a prohibited activity” – that is, attending a protest on campus that was peaceful, but was [...] CCLA recently received a response from the Fredericton Chief of Police to its Request for Information under New Brunswick’s Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Following the arrest earlier this year of a Fredericton blogger in connection to comments he had made on his blog about a city police officer, CCLA wrote to Police [...] On March 23rd the Court released its decision in the case of Doré v. Bernard, which considered freedom of expression in the context of a lawyer being disciplined for comments he made about a judge in a private letter to that judge. CCLA intervened in the case to argue that lawyers not only have a right, but [...] |
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