COVID-19CRIMINAL JUSTICEDetasking PolicePolice Powers, Use of Force & Police AccountabilityUncategorized CCLA and PPMP Release New Report Examining Covid-19 Policing in the Second Wave Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Policing the Pandemic Mapping Project released a new report…Abby DeshmanMay 11, 2021
Conditions of ConfinementCOVID-19COVID-19 & PrisonsCRIMINAL JUSTICEPrisons, Jails & Community Supervision CCLA and Partners Release Update on COVID-19 and Prison Settings CCLA along with its organizational partners in the Prison Pandemic Partnership is calling upon federal,…Abby DeshmanMarch 19, 2021
CRIMINAL JUSTICEFair Trial, Due Process & SentencingSentencing CCLA Applies to Intervene at Supreme Court of Canada in Sentencing Process Cases On May 18, pro bono counsel representing the CCLA appeared before the Supreme Court of…Abby DeshmanMarch 12, 2021
COVID-19COVID-19 & PrisonsCRIMINAL JUSTICEEQUALITYIndigenous PeoplePrisons, Jails & Community Supervision CCLA and Partners Notch New Legal Win in Thunder Bay Thunder Bay’s Medical Officer of Health has rescinded her February 8th Class Order targeting individuals…Abby DeshmanMarch 12, 2021
COVID-19COVID-19 & PrisonsCRIMINAL JUSTICEEQUALITYIndigenous PeoplePrisons, Jails & Community Supervision CCLA Calls Out Thunder Bay’s Unconstitutional COVID-19 Order On February 8, 2021, Thunder Bay’s Medical Officer of Health, Dr. DeMille, issued a Class…Abby DeshmanMarch 8, 2021
Conditions of ConfinementCOVID-19COVID-19 & PrisonsCRIMINAL JUSTICEPrisons, Jails & Community Supervision New Analysis of COVID-19 Infections Behind Bars Underscores the Need to Depopulate Prisons CCLA, as part of its Prison Pandemic Partnership Project, is helping to track the spread…Abby DeshmanFebruary 3, 2021
COVID-19COVID-19 & Law EnforcementCRIMINAL JUSTICEPolice Powers, Use of Force & Police Accountability COVID-19 Fines Will Likely Make Pandemic Worse On November 7, Dr. Bonnie Henry, British Columbia’s provincial health officer, held an unusual press…Abby DeshmanNovember 20, 2020
COVID-19COVID-19 & Law EnforcementCRIMINAL JUSTICEFUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMSPolice Powers, Use of Force & Police Accountability A Civil Liberties Take on Canada’s Second Wave of COVID-19 Emergency Orders During the first wave of COVID, we were quite critical of a number of the…Abby DeshmanNovember 19, 2020
COVID-19COVID-19 & Law EnforcementCRIMINAL JUSTICEPolice Powers, Use of Force & Police AccountabilityUnreasonable Search & Seizure Guess Who’s Coming to Thanksgiving Dinner, Quebec? The Quebec government has put the police on the frontlines of the pandemic and placed…Abby DeshmanOctober 12, 2020
COVID-19COVID-19 & Law EnforcementCRIMINAL JUSTICEDetasking PolicePolice Powers, Use of Force & Police Accountability Quebec Doubles Down on Its Punitive Approach to COVID Quebec’s new COVID restrictions are simultaneously strict and bewildering. Millions of Quebeckers in the ‘red…Abby DeshmanOctober 5, 2020