G20 Summit Class Action
In June of 2010, Toronto police conducted the largest mass arrests in Canadian history during global G20 summit meetings in Toronto.
Klippensteins and Eric Gillespie were co-counsel in a hard-fought eleven-year class action lawsuit defending the rights and liberties of all Canadians, which ended with a settlement that included a public police acknowledgement, police policy reform, and a substantial compensation to 1100 arrestees.
Sandy Bell’s Natural garden
A Toronto musician decided that she wanted her front yard to become once again a small stretch of original Ontario meadow, with native grasses and flowers serving as a home for butterflies, bees and birds, and as an environmental educational experience for her young son and for passersby.
The Mushkegowuk Cree fight Workfare
When the provincial government dramatically cut back provincial social assistance,First Nations people across the province were especially hard-hit. TheMushkegowuk Council of First Nations on the James Bay coast asked us to challengethe province’s imposition of the changes on First Nations.
Equal Policing for First Nations Communities
In early 2006, despite years of clear warnings of unsafe conditions and chronic underfunding by the federal government, a fire destroyed the dilapidated and unsafe police station in Kaschechewan First Nation in northern Ontario.