Dear OCLA Supporter,
This email is to provide you with an update of OCLA’s work and activities over the Fall season.
Congratulations to Harry Kopyto
We were very proud to award Harry Kopyto with OCLA’s Inaugural Civil Liberties Award for his lifelong dedication to freedom, peace and justice, and his brave activism within Ontario’s legal system. Harry’s inspiring speech from the award celebration in Toronto on November 8 can be viewed at the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1gp_LNsEp8
The Work and Legacy of David F. Noble
OCLA held discussion and documentary film screening about the legacy of activist intellectual David F. Noble on November 1 in Ottawa, in partnership with uOttawa Cinema Academica. Many thanks to Professor Mark Spooner for appearing as our featured speaker and filmmaker Jon Bullick for attending to discuss his documentary film David F. Noble: A Wrench in the Gears.
Video from Wealth Inequality and Civil Liberties Event
Video of speakers from OCLA’s October 20 event on Wealth Inequality and Civil Liberties are available at the links below:
- Bruce Hyer (MP, Independent), “Gaps in Income, and Limits to Greed”
- Isabelle Hétu (President, CUPE-2626)
- Joanne Law (International Transgender Lecturer)
New Advisory Board Member
We’d like to welcome Professor Mark Mercer to the OCLA’s Advisory Board. Prof. Mercer teaches philosophy at St. Mary’s University and has written extensively on fundamental freedoms issues in Canada.
Motion for Leave to Intervene, Thibodeau et al. v. Air Canada et al.
The Ontario Civil Liberties Association and Dr. Gábor Lukács filed a motion for leave to intervene to the Supreme Court of Canada in Thibodeau et al. v. Air Canada et al. to address the issue of whether an international treaty (the “Montreal Convention”) bars actions for damages against Air Canada arising from human rights and civil liberties abridgements to passengers onboard international flights.
Key documents from this motion can be read at the following link: https://ocla.ca/our-work/public-campaigns/#anchor-Thibodeau
Volunteering with OCLA
There are all kinds of ways you can collaborate with OCLA to help the organization grow and take part in the push-back for a freer and more democratic society. Everyone who works with OCLA is a volunteer. Please contact us to discuss your volunteering interests, no matter how large or how small!
How to Stay Connected and Donate to OCLA
Twitter: @oncivlib
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/110883345731728/
OCLA is a non-profit organization. Donations help cover operating costs such as booking rooms for public events, printing promotional material for campaigns and events, and paying for court filing fees and court document production costs (copies and binding) regarding court and tribunal interventions on civil liberties issues.
Donations can be made in two ways:
- through Paypal, by clicking the “Donate” button in the top-right corner of www.ocla.ca; or
- by sending a cheque to “Ontario Civil Liberties Association” to our mailing address:
Ontario Civil Liberties Association
180 Metcalfe Street, Suite 204
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K2P 1P5
Yours truly,
Joseph Hickey
Executive Director
Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA) https://www.ocla.ca
613-252-6148 (c)
joseph.hickey@ocla.ca
