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BCCLA/CCLA/CFE to Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada

The Centre for Free Expression, along with co-intervenors Canadian Association of Journalists and CWA-Canada, welcome today's Supreme Court's unanimous judgment  in 1704604 Ontario Ltd. v. Pointes Protection Association which upholds Ontario's anti-SLAPP legislation and makes some important clarifications about how specific legislative provisions  should be interpreted and applied.

Richard Moon, Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law at the University of Windsor is joining Ryerson’s Centre for Free Expression as a Senior Fellow.  “Professor Moon is one of Canada’s most eminent constitutional law experts on expressive freedom,” said James L. Turk, Director of the Centre. “We are honoured that he will broadening his involvement with the Centre, having already been one of our major bloggers.”

On June 23, 2020, B’Nai Brith issued a press release and posted an online petition calling on York University President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda Lenton to bar Professor Faisal Bhabha from teaching any “human rights” course at Osgoode Hall Law School. More than six weeks later, the President has not provided an open or transparent response to B’Nai Brith’s widely publicized condemnation of Bhabha and petition to remove him from the classroom.  The professor

By Ken Rubin There's no real desire to remedy shortcomings. It is no longer good enough to continue holding Canadians hostage to incomplete data

The Centre for Free Expression is launching a “smart cities” advisory panel to provide expert advice and to assist civic engagement in communities considering “smart cities” initiatives. “Communities across Canada are turning to data-driven and technology-based solutions that they hope will increase the quality of both public services and the lives of their residents,” said James L. Turk, director of the Centre. “But, as we saw with the ill-fated Quayside-Sidewalk Labs project in Toronto, the allure tech of fixes can be misleading.”