EQUALITYFUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMSPRESS RELEASESSocio-Economic Status CCLA Urges Big City Mayors To Vote Against Resolution That Overrides Rights Of Vulnerable People In Ontario TORONTO — The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is calling on Ontario’s Big City Mayors to…CCLAOctober 15, 2024
PRESS RELEASESSocio-Economic Status CCLA Reacts to City of Kingston Closure of Belle Park Encampment TORONTO — Harini Sivalingam, Director of the Equality Program of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, made…CCLAOctober 1, 2024
PRESS RELEASESSocio-Economic Status CCLA Reacts to Premier of Ontario’s Comments on Unhoused People TORONTO — Harini Sivalingam, Director of the Equality Program of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association,…CCLASeptember 26, 2024
DisabilityEQUALITYPRESS RELEASESSocio-Economic Status Constitutional Rights of Kingston Encampment Residents Must be Respected TORONTO — Harini Sivalingam, Director of the Equality Program of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association,…Harini SivalangamSeptember 16, 2024
EQUALITYPRESS RELEASESSocio-Economic Status Yukon Court Strikes Down Parts of SCAN Act as Unconstitutional Infringement on Security of the Person TORONTO — Harini Sivalingam, Director of the Equality Program of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association,…CCLASeptember 5, 2024
EQUALITYPRESS RELEASESSocio-Economic Status CCLA Deeply Concerned Over City of Kingston Encampment Evictions TORONTO — CCLA is deeply concerned over the City of Kingston’s attempts to enforce a…CCLAApril 5, 2024
EQUALITYPRESS RELEASESSocio-Economic Status Ontario Court Finds Provisions of Safe Streets Act Unconstitutional TORONTO — The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has found that the Safe Streets Act violates the Charter freedoms of unhoused people…CCLAApril 2, 2024
DisabilityEQUALITYPRESS RELEASESSocio-Economic Status CCLA Intervenes in Jacob v Canada TORONTO — Harini Sivalingam, Director of the Criminal Justice Program of the Canadian Civil Liberties…CCLAFebruary 23, 2024
EQUALITYPRESS RELEASESSocio-Economic Status CCLA Intervenes in Constitutional Challenge to Criminalization of Panhandling in Ontario TORONTO — Pro bono legal counsel representing the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) will appear…CCLAFebruary 6, 2024
EQUALITYPRESS RELEASESSocio-Economic Status CCLA files arguments in Fair Change Community Legal Clinic v Ontario TORONTO — The CCLA has filed its written arguments in court in Fair Change Community Legal Clinic v Ontario. This case…CCLADecember 7, 2023