Author: The CCF

With legalization days away in Canada, defense lawyers are warning that once weed is legal, police could increase their use of civil forfeiture — a process to seize people’s property without charging them with crimes — to crack down on people who violate cannabis laws. Currently, police in eight provinces…

Under pressure, the Government of BC has agreed not to impose stiff new penalties on doctors and private clinics helping thousands of BC patients receive timely care until after the court has ruled on our application for an injunction against these penalties. This means hundreds of procedures will not have…

No really, you'll have to guess, because the Government won't tell us! And now they are going to court to fight an order from BC's Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner requiring the Government to tell us. For almost two years, the CCF has been trying to find out…