In Canada, CJFE monitors, defends and promotes free expression and access to information.
We encourage and support individuals and groups to be vigilant in the protection of their own and others’ free expression rights. Along with other free speech groups and media outlets, we also intervene in court cases to create better laws protecting expression.
Current campaigns and issues in Canada
Bill C-51
Snowden Archive
CJFE Review of Free Expression
Free Expression News
Access to Information
Privacy and Surveillance
Censorship
Protection of Sources and Whistleblowers
Free Expression and the Law
Canadian News
Press shield law needed to help journalists protect confidential sources
As recent events in Quebec and elsewhere in Canada amply demonstrate, journalists are vulnerable to often arbitrary and summary treatment concerning search warrants and production orders with regard to confidential sources. This is why bill S-231 by Senator Claude Carignan, head of the Opposition, represents a good start in filling a void in Canadian law protecting journalists.
Read more
Meryl Streep's Speech on Press Freedom is just as True for Canadians
The potential dangers of the Trump presidency have civil liberties groups in the U.S. preparing to devote significantly more resources to protecting press freedom in America. Despite the differences between our Prime Minister and the incoming American President, press freedom in Canada will need to be defended every bit as vigorously in 2017 as in the United States.
Read more
CSIS must keep promise to report on surveillance of journalists
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has backtracked on its promise to reveal to a Senate committee the agency’s history of spying on Canadian journalists and media workers. We call on CSIS to be fully transparent with Canadians about surveillance activities that relate to sensitive public interest sectors like journalism.
Read more
Be the first to comment
Sign in with
Facebook Twitter