Maintaining Natural BC for Our Children: Selected Law Reform Proposals
This book is a series of 35 short articles that describe key environmental law reforms the next provincial government should consider. This book is put forward as an educational service to inform the...
View ArticleMuzzling Civil Servants: A Threat to Democracy?
Working with Democracy Watch and ELC staff, ELC student Clayton Greenwood requested that the Federal Information Commissioner investigate the apparent systematic efforts by the Government of Canada to...
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Government Should Disclose Fish Farm Disease Outbreaks
Government Should Disclose Fish Farm Disease Outbreaks June 12, 2014 Outbreaks of exotic or virulent fish disease at fish farms may spread to wild fish and threaten wild salmon stocks. Yet the...
View ArticleGovernment should release Mount Polley documents
Victoria, BC – The ELC asked BC’s Information & Privacy Commissioner today to investigate the provincial government’s refusal to release documents related to the Mount Polley tailings dam collapse....
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Transforming BC’s Freedom of Information Law
ELC students Rachel Gutman (far L) and Rebecca Kantwerg (far R) join Legal Director Calvin Sandborn during a media interview about the ELC’s request that the Information Commissioner release documents...
View ArticleIn the Public Interest: Unlock the Vault
Law Reform to ensure proactive disclosure of “Public Interest” Records Submitted to the Special Committee to Review the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, on behalf of the BC...
View Article2017Feb24 – Letter to Information and Privacy Commissioner
On behalf of BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA), letter requesting the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner conduct a systemic study on why particular provincial...
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Accessing information: the continuing quest to release public documents
In our October newsletter, we told you about the ELC’s work to improve information and privacy law in BC. On behalf of the BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association, we just took this work a...
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ELC Co-op Student Emilie Benoit
I couldn’t ask for a better co-op experience than being immersed in the world of public interest environmental law at the ELC. It’s been great to work on a variety of projects, to meet others doing...
View ArticleGood News Stories: Celebrating Positive Changes in Environmental Law
Happy 25th Anniversary to the ELC! As part of our 25th Anniversary celebration, over the next few months we’re sharing a series of Good News Stories that were inspired by the 2021 Research-a-thon. The...
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