EQUALITYLGBTQ2S+Notwithstanding Clause CCLA Urges Premier to Reconsider Plan Undermining Charter Freedoms Today, CCLA’s Executive Director wrote to Alberta’s Premier expressing deep concern over the plan to…CCLASeptember 24, 2025
FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMSPRESS RELEASESRight to Protest CCLA: Bill C-9 Risks Criminalizing Peaceful Protest On September 19, 2025, the Government of Canada introduced Bill C-9 with the declared intent…CCLASeptember 22, 2025
Digital IDEQUALITYInformation SharingLife, Liberty & SecurityPRESS RELEASESPRIVACYRefugees & Immigration Alberta’s Plan to Add Citizenship on Driver’s Licenses Raises Privacy and Rights Concerns Toronto — The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is warning that the Alberta government’s plan to…Harini SivalangamSeptember 16, 2025
EQUALITYLife, Liberty & SecurityPRESS RELEASESRefugees & ImmigrationSocio-Economic StatusYouth CCLA Welcomes Court of Appeal Decision Upholding Protections for Convention Refugee Children TORONTO – Harini Sivalingam, Director of Equality Program at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association made…Harini SivalangamSeptember 3, 2025
CRIMINAL JUSTICEFreedom of ExpressionFUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMSPRESS RELEASES CCLA Releases New Guide on Protest Rights TORONTO - In a time when the right to protest is on all our minds,…CCLASeptember 2, 2025
FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMSPRESS RELEASES CCLA Sounds the Alarm Over Government of Alberta’s Dangerous Censorship Agenda TORONTO – The CCLA is sounding the alarm over the Government of Alberta’s push to…CCLAAugust 29, 2025
EQUALITYFreedom of ReligionFUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMSPRESS RELEASES CCLA Condemns Quebec’s Ban on Prayer in Public The Canadian Civil Liberties Association strongly condemns the Quebec government’s announcement that it will introduce…CCLAAugust 28, 2025
EQUALITYLife, Liberty & SecurityPRESS RELEASESSocio-Economic Status CCLA intervening in new encampment case in Waterloo TORONTO – The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) is intervening in a case challenging a…Harini SivalangamAugust 22, 2025
Freedom of ExpressionFUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS CCLA Doubles Down on its Criticism of Alberta’s Book Ban Alberta’s Minister of Education and Childcare recently issued a ministerial order requiring all school libraries…Anaïs Bussières McNicollAugust 14, 2025
EQUALITYLGBTQ2S+Notwithstanding ClausePRESS RELEASES CCLA Welcomes UR Pride Decision Affirming Key Role of Courts in Protecting Charter Rights TORONTO — The Canadian Civil Liberties Association welcomes today’s decision of the Saskatchewan Court of…Aaden PearsonAugust 12, 2025