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The Citizenship Handbook:
A Guide to Democratic Rights and Responsibilities
1998. 118 pp. Free
Available in English (expected to be available in May 2008), Vietnamese and Punjabi or via our website.
A resource created for students and new Canadians, but also a
useful reminder for all Canadians who take their citizenship for granted.
Topics discussed include:
-protecting your rights
-making the democratic process work for you
-dealing with government agencies.
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Foundation, the Law Foundation of B.C., the B.C. Gaming Commission, the B.C. Ministry
Responsible for Multiculturalism and Immigration, the Department of Canadian Heritage and Vancity. |
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The Teaching and Workshop Guide for ESL Teachers and Settlement Counselors
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support package for the Citizenship Handbook)
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2002. Free.
Available in hard copy or via our website.
Available in English
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The Arrest Handbook:
A Guide to Your Rights
2003. 62 pp. Free
Available in Vietnamese, Spanish, Arabic, or in English.
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This handbook explains in plain language the range of conduct citizens can expect from police in the lawful exercise of their duties.
Funded by the Law Foundation of B.C.
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The
Arrest Pocketbook:
A Guide to Your Rights
2003. 20 pp. Free.Available
in English, Vietnamese, Spanish and Arabic.
The pocketbook is a mini-version of the handbook and explains in plain language the range of
conduct citizens can expect from police in the lawful exercise of their duties.
Funded by the Law Foundation of B.C.
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Making a Complaint Against the Police
Brochure. Free. Available in English. Adobe
pdf
Answers these questions... and others:
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The
Facts About Drug Testing in the Workplace
Brochure. Free. Available in English. Online
version
Brochure on the rights and responsibilities
of employees and employers.
Questions addressed include:
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Rights
Talk:
Students and Civil Liberties at School
2005. Available in hard copy or via our web
site. Free. Available in English.
PProject funded by the Law Foundation of B.C. and the
Notary Foundation
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The
Privacy Handbook:
A Practical Guide to Your Privacy Rights and How to Protect
Them
By Erin Shaw, John Westwood and Russell Wodell.
1994. 183 pp. Free. Available
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Answers many important questions:
- Do I have to answer all the questions on the census form?
- Can
store security guards search me or my bags?
- Can I find out what is on my police file?
- Can my employer force me to take a drug test?
- Can
the police tap my telephone without my knowledge?
- Who
has access to my credit record information?
- Who
can see my medical records?
- Who can see my income tax information?
- Do
I have to give out my social insurance number?
"Essential
reading ... highly recommended!"
(David Flaherty, Information & Privacy
Commissioner of B.C.)
Although published prior to the introduction of privacy legislation, this book remains an interesting source of information on privacy issues.
Published in co-operation with the B.C. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA).
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Liberties
Ed. John Russell. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1989.
246 pp. Free. Available in English.
In this collection, John Russell,
former executive director and past president of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association,
brings together 17 articles and briefs on important civil liberties issues: The porn debate has been on-going. Where
do we draw the line? John Dixon, Alister Browne, David Copp and Reg Robson explore
the issues. Can a democracy tolerate the hate propaganda of the Jim Keegstras
and Ernst Zundels in our midst?
Lynda Hird and John Dixon review the place of minorities in our society. When law enforcement
clashes with our rights, who gets the benefit of the doubt? John Russell, Philip
Bryden, David Copp and Alister Browne on CSIS, police powers and capital punishment.
Plus articles on AIDS testing, legal aid, drug use and psychological testing by
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Civil
liberties publications by friends of the BCCLA
The
following publications are not available through the BCCLA, but are available
in libraries. |
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Proceedings
of the 1992 conference.
The Charter: Ten Years After |
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Presented
by the B.C. Civil Liberties Association in cooperation with Simon Fraser University's
Philosophy Department.
"An essential document about an essential
issue." (Peter C. Newman) |
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Kiddie
Porn:
Sexual Representation and the Robin Sharpe Case
By Stan Persky and John Dixon
Vancouver: New Star Books, 2001.
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law and follows its fortunes through the legal system. |
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Protecting
Rights and Freedoms:
Essays on the Charter's Place in Canada's Political, Legal
and Intellectual Life
Edited by Philip Bryden, Steven Davis and John Russell
Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1994.
241 pp.
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Catastrophic
Rights: Experimental Drugs and AIDS
By John Dixon
Vancouver: New Star Books, 1990. 131 pp.
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An expansion to book length of a major BCCLA position paper. Do people
with life-threatening illnesses like AIDS or cancer have exceptional rights? Should
they be allowed access to experimental drugs before these have jumped all the
hoops of testing and authorization? In
Catastrophic Rights, John Dixon lays out the medical and political ethics of treatment
for the catastrophically ill patients who know their illness is untreatable and
generally fatal. Using the example of experimental AIDS drugs AZT, aerosolized
pentamidine, DDI, gangciclovir
he puts forward the case against making such drugs available and counters with
well-thought-out arguments for the rights of the catastrophically ill. Dixon also
tackles the question of who should pay for expensive experimental treatment, and
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The
Burden of Office: Agamemnon and Other Losers
By Joseph Tussman, with an introduction by John Dixon
Vancouver:
Talon Books, 1989. 168 pp.
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"Consider the symptoms of our present
dilemma: leadership reduced to media 'sound bites', legitimate public power sold
off to the marketplace in the name of 'privatization', citizens transformed into
dubiously literate consumers in a Global Village. Can we make sense of any of
this?
To do so, Tussman turns to some of the oldest and greatest stories in our tradition.
He rereads and retells the tales of Moses, Oedipus, Orestes, Antigone, and King
Lear. The retellings, it is quickly apparent, are really new tellings that explore
the deepest meanings of our social institutions. Tussman traces the tension between
passion and puritanism in an effort to make sense of public office and public
authority in a way that leads to neither blind obedience nor fashionable cynicism.
Lucid, original, and ultimately wise, The Burden of Office is as much a work of literature as it is of philosophy. |
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Restricted
Entry: Censorship on Trial
By Janine Fuller and Stuart Blackley
Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1995.
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| A history of the struggle of Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium
against the discriminatory actions of Canada Customs, including the historical
trial with the B.C. Civil Liberties Association as co-plaintiff. |
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