BLAC STATEMENTS

Statement by the Black Legal Action Centre on Black History Month

This Black History Month, the Black Legal Action Centre (BLAC) honours our ancestors, elders and those who have come before us, who championed for equal rights and envisioned a future that is just. We honour not only the Canadian Black pioneers, scientists, inventors,...

COVID-19: Statement on Ontario’s Second Provincial Emergency Order

On January 12, 2021, the Ontario government declared a second state of emergency under section 7.0. of the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act (EMPCA). This emergency declaration comes as a consequence of the alarmingly high rates of COVID-19 throughout the...

BLAC Statement of Solidarity and Condemnation of Police Brutality

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of D’Andre Campbell and Soleiman Faqiri as we process the incredibly difficult, but unsurprising news that their killers will not be held accountable for egregious abuses of power. The experiences of both point to a...