Canadian Civil Liberties Association at York University

02/13/2017

Reminder! Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Panel is Tomorrow at 12pm in McLaughlin college JCR!!

01/30/2017

Single on Valentine's Day? Join us at 12:00pm for a panel on missing and murdered Indigenous women… we'll have pizza

04/17/2015

The CCLA is very disappointed that the Toronto police board has passed their carding policy without the “progressive” citizen safeguards suggested a year ago. Says our Equality Director, Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, the original policy “would have set a gold standard,” noting that even though it basically required police to simply comply with existing laws that there was nothing like it in Canada. “It wasn’t perfect, but it was something we could work with.”

Toronto police board's revised carding policy is missing many of the citizen protections in an earlier version

04/14/2015

The CCLA intervened in R v Nur and its companion case R v Charles to argue that the three-year and five-year mandatory minimum sentences for possession of restricted and prohibited fi****ms with ammunition constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in reasonable hypothetical cases. Section 12 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects against cruel and unusual punishment. Today, the majority of the Supreme Court agreed with CCLA’s position and struck down the provisions as being unconstitutional. Read more here: http://ccla.org/2015/04/14/scc-ruling-nur/

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is a national organization that was constituted in 1964 to promote respect for and observance of fundamental human rights and civil liberties. Our work, which includes research, public education and advocacy aims to defend and ensure the protection and full e…

03/21/2015

Ever thought about getting a "Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms" Poster/Certificate or the "Canadian Bill of Rights" Poster/Certificate? The Government of Canada can send you one for free, click on the link below. Enjoy! http://www.pch.gc.ca/eng/1357238512424/1357238633857

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03/20/2015

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/nsa-bug-iphone/

The NSA can use your iPhone against you, even if it's off. Here's how to make sure it absolutely, positively, is not being used against you.

03/20/2015

Mexico has finally released Alfonso Martín del Campo Dodd, who spent 23 years in prison because of a confession extracted under torture >> http://amn.st/61892g7z

GOOD NEWS! Mexico has finally released Alfonso Martín del Campo Dodd, who spent 23 years in prison because of a confession extracted under torture >> http://amn.st/61892g7z

03/16/2015

"The morning after 17-year-old Natanael failed to return home from a night out, his grandmother Marina was faced with her worst nighthmare: standing at the morgue, she saw Natanael’s body, riddled with bullet wounds, his neck and arm broken. Sadly, this shocking story is not unusual in Brazil, where at least six people are killed by police officers every single day." -Amnesty International

As the world prepares to mark the International Day against Police Brutality on 15 March, fear and outrage boil over in a community in north-eastern Brazil after police recently killed 12 men.

03/10/2015

Hi everyone! We just wanted to say thank you to all those that came out to our event today! It was an amazing panel discussion and we hope to see you next year! If you are interested in becoming a member or joining the executive committee for next year please let us know! Take care!

03/06/2015

02/27/2015

The Court of Quebec is standing by the decision of one of its judges who refused to hear a woman's case unless she removed her Islamic headscarf.