{"id":12712,"date":"2010-07-16T15:01:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T19:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=12712"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:11:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:11:39","slug":"spacing-radio-g20-special-protecting-our-civil-liberties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/07\/16\/spacing-radio-g20-special-protecting-our-civil-liberties\/","title":{"rendered":"SPACING RADIO G20 SPECIAL: Protecting civil liberties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"G20 Special - Spacing Radio\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/radio\/images\/spacing-radio-G20-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN TO <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2010\/07\/16\/g20-special-protectingour-civil-liberties\/\">TODAY\u2019S SPACING RADIO<\/a><\/span> PODCAST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Discussion in the leadup to the G20 Summit took a far more serious and ominous turn on Friday, June 25, when the <em>Toronto Star<\/em> ran a front-page story about an amendment to the virtually unknown <em>Public Works Protection Act<\/em>. The change to the law, the <em>Star<\/em> reported, was passed quietly by the Provincial government, and gave the police broad powers.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment was brought to the <em>Star<\/em>\u2019s attention by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), a group that distinguished itself as a steady and sober voice for the rights of civilians caught up in the law-enforcement web. Nathalie Des Rosiers, CCLA general counsel who has become a go-to source for reporters, spoke with <em>Spacing<\/em>\u2019s Todd Harrison about the laws surrounding public protest, her group\u2019s response to the G20 arrests, and the upcoming review by the Toronto Police Services Board.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links to stuff from Spacing Radio&#8217;s G20 Special, pt. IV:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The CCLA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ccla.org\/our-work\/current-issues\/g8-and-g20\/\" target=\"_self\">G8 and G20 statements and actions<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The <em>Star<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/article\/828367--g20-law-gives-police-sweeping-powers-to-arrest-people\" target=\"_self\">story that broke the news<\/a> about the <em>Public Works Protection Act<\/em><\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slaw.ca\/2010\/07\/02\/what-is-the-public-works-protection-act-anyway\/\" target=\"_self\">great primer on the <em>Act<\/em><\/a> from law blog Slaw.ca<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-laws.gov.on.ca\/html\/statutes\/english\/elaws_statutes_90p55_e.htm\" target=\"_self\"><em>Act<\/em> itself<\/a>, and the controversial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-laws.gov.on.ca\/html\/source\/regs\/english\/2010\/elaws_src_regs_r10233_e.htm\" target=\"_self\">amendment<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LISTEN TO TODAY\u2019S SPACING RADIO PODCAST Discussion in the leadup to the G20 Summit took a far more serious and ominous turn on Friday, June 25, when the Toronto Star ran a front-page story about an amendment to the virtually unknown Public Works Protection Act. The change to the law, the Star reported, was passed<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/07\/16\/spacing-radio-g20-special-protecting-our-civil-liberties\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;SPACING RADIO G20 SPECIAL: Protecting civil liberties&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4010,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21759,15,2,21763,14],"tags":[15594,15593,7408,156,6042,15595,15596,15592,68,872,44,81,405,339,6494,3743,341],"class_list":["post-12712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-media","category-politics","category-services","category-spacing","tag-canadian-civil-liberties-association","tag-cclas-g8","tag-g20","tag-g20-summit","tag-general-counsel","tag-law-blog","tag-law-enforcement-web","tag-nathalie-des-rosiers","tag-police","tag-provincial-government","tag-queens-park","tag-spacing-radio","tag-the-star","tag-the-toronto-star","tag-todd-harrison","tag-toronto-police-services-board","tag-toronto-star"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SPACING RADIO G20 SPECIAL: Protecting civil liberties - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/07\/16\/spacing-radio-g20-special-protecting-our-civil-liberties\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SPACING RADIO G20 SPECIAL: Protecting civil liberties - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LISTEN TO TODAY\u2019S SPACING RADIO PODCAST Discussion in the leadup to the G20 Summit took a far more serious and ominous turn on Friday, June 25, when the Toronto Star ran a front-page story about an amendment to the virtually unknown Public Works Protection Act. 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