Thairu Taban and Josslyn Mounsey were hired by Metrolinx as Transit Safety Communications Operators. They had successfully completed their training and had one last step before starting the job – a police background check with the Toronto Police Service.
Knowing your rights is an important tool to help you recognize when your rights have been violated. Asserting your rights in interactions with law enforcement can also help you if you later want to raise these issues in court or through a complaint.
Clearview AI broke Canadian law when it scraped the internet for 3 billion photos of people and sold their facial recognition tool to police forces across Canada.
The Charter of Rights would have something to say about a law mandating vaccinations, if such a law arose after the 1982 patriation of our constitution. It hasn’t. There are laws requiring public school students to be vaccinated, with exceptions made for medical and religious/conscience reasons.
We are writing regarding the Direction under a Declared State of Emergency that you recently issued advising that all public parks and beaches would be closed and that all persons entering the province will be checked at the border. We have a number of questions and concerns about this Direction.
Victory! Today, the Supreme Court rendered a monumental decision recognizing that police carding in a private backyard constitutes arbitrary detention, a violation of the Charter. The Court stated the police have no legal authority to question people who are doing nothing wrong, nor demand their IDs.
On November 1, 2018, the Police Records Checks Reform Act (PRCRA) comes into force.
Cadillac Fairview, the company that owns numerous popular malls, said it will pause the use of cameras embedded inside mall directories.
On September 18, 2017, CCLA Director of Public Safety, Rob De Luca, made submissions on CCLA’s behalf to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights to address several areas of concern with the government’s new impaired driving Bill, including concerns with provisions in the Bill that would authorize random breath testing, increase mandatory minimum fines and maximum allowable penalties, and provide the Crown with “shortcuts” for proving that an accused committed a drug impaired driving offence.
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