B.C. Civil Liberties Association

• Freedom of expression or personal attack? Sask. nurse appeals fine for Facebook post

  Carolyn Strom’s lawyer says the Saskatchewan Registered Nurses Association discipline committee misquoted from legal decisions.

  Canada

  Sep 17, 2019
  
• Saskatchewan nurse appealing $26K fine over Facebook comments

  Carolyn Strom was fined by the Saskatchewan Registered Nurses Association in 2016 for comments over her grandfather's care in a long-term health facility.

  Canada

  Sep 17, 2019
  
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• Interveners allowed in appeal of nurse fined $26K for criticizing long-term care home

  Three interveners will be allowed to make broader freedom of expression arguments in the case of a nurse appealing a large fine for criticizing a long-term care home.

  Canada

  Jun 4, 2019
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• High-pitched alarm driving some Vancouver residents (and their dogs) mad

  "When you take the dog out for a walk and you go back upstairs you can still hear it ringing in your ears for the next half-hour."

  Jan 6, 2018
• Feds win bid to re-argue the facts used in landmark assisted-dying case

  Two B.C. women and the civil liberties group are challenging the constitutionality of the legislation, which they say is more restrictive than the system of assisted dying envisioned by the Supreme Court.

  Canada

  Oct 11, 2017
• B. C. plaintiff in legal challenge to Canada’s assisted dying laws dies

  In a statement from her husband Lenard, he says she died with medical assistance on Aug. 31.

  Health

  Sep 18, 2017
• Facts on which top court struck down assisted dying ban no longer relevant: Feds

  The hearing is part of a constitutional challenge to the new law.

  Canada

  Jun 12, 2017
• Vancouver police admit to using StingRay device to listen in on phone calls

  The Vancouver Police Department’s revelation that it has indeed employed a controversial mass-surveillance device despite initially insisting it had no documentation of its use raises serious legal and public accountability concerns, a civil liberties group says. The department said it received help from the RCMP in using a so-called StingRay device during a 2007 investigation...

  Crime

  Aug 10, 2016
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• Snowden to speak via web-link at B.C.’s Simon Fraser University

  Edward Snowden will make the keynote presentation, via web link, as part of a Simon Fraser University program examining the opportunities and dangers of online data gathering.

  Canada

  Feb 19, 2016
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• Supreme Court expected to rule Friday on B.C. assisted suicide case

  Canada's top court is expected to release its judgement Friday in a high-profile case confronting the country's long-standing ban on seeking help to end one's own life.

  Canada

  Feb 2, 2015