We’re taking the City to court!⚖️Today, BCCLA alongside three individual plaintiffs are filing a lawsuit against the City of Vancouver in a Charter challenge against the ban on sheltering during the day.
Read more: bccla.org/campaign/shelt…
BCCLA calls on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to revoke the use of the Emergencies Act. We additionally call on Members of Parliament to vote against the declaration when Parliament considers it within seven sitting days after its issuance. 1/12
Here’s how the B.C. RCMP have been prohibiting the working news media at the Fairy Creek blockade. They insist their exclusion zone gives them the power to control the movements of journalists on public land and pick and choose what journalists can cover.
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We won! In a landmark moment for prison justice in Canada, the BC Supreme Court ends indefinite solitary confinement in federal prisons across Canada. Read our press release for more: buff.ly/2FNthba
As an organization that focuses on the relationship between people & the state, and the ways in which the state can limit or advance human rights and liberties, we are alarmed by the precedent this action sets. Canada has not met the legal threshold for the Act’s invocation 2/12
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again:
Involuntary drug treatment can cause great harm – even death – and does not save lives.
Forced treatment of people who use drugs cannot be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society. 1/
BREAKING: The BCCLA is suing the RCMP Commissioner for preventing the release of watchdog report into police spying on Indigenous and climate advocates.
Read our press release for more: ow.ly/VVTf50CgE9U#cdnpoli#bcpoli
The BCCLA joins the @FPSE in calling for the immediate resignation of @selinarobinson.
Minister Robinson’s intervention in the termination of a Langara College instructor undermines the democratic principles of freedom of expression and academic freedom.
The BCCLA condemns BC Attorney General @David_Eby for throwing human rights, civil liberties, and evidence under the bus by suggesting the state should be able to involuntarily detain and force treatment on people who use drugs. #bcpoli 1/7🧵 vancouversun.com/news/bc-ndp-le…
The legal threshold for invoking this type of emergency under the Emergencies Act has not been met. The government has not yet demonstrated that there are threats to national security that are so serious as to “exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it” 9/12