Heather Ferg

Partner at McKay Ferg LLP - Criminal law, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Evidence & Privacy.

[UCalgary Law @UCalgaryLaw]

Meet our 2025-2026 Sessional Instructor Teaching Award winners: Heather Ferg and Margot Engley!

To learn more about the award and other winners, visit: https://t.co/To93sYopGR

[Heather Ferg @HStarLLB]

New Year, new website!
https://t.co/HGmF9Wwzl5

[Heather Ferg @HStarLLB]

It was, as always, an honour to represent @cancivlib with @rankinovitch on an important issue going to the heart of the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act. The advocacy was excellent and I am hopeful there will be an outcome that preserves and enhances life and liberty.

[Canadian Civil Liberties Association @cancivlib]

CCLA is intervening at the Supreme Court in R. v. Wilson to protect substance users seeking emergency care from unjust arrests.

Read more here.
https://t.co/owAYx0QP4Z

[Canadian Civil Liberties Association @cancivlib]

CCLA is intervening at the Supreme Court in R. v. Wilson to protect substance users seeking emergency care from unjust arrests.

Read more here.
https://t.co/owAYx0QP4Z

[Geoffrey York @geoffreyyork]

A recently retired Canadian diplomat is alleging war crimes by the Canadian military, documenting its involvement in the disappearances of hundreds of Afghan detainees. Our exclusive:
https://t.co/xOjhM0Wqas

[Heather Ferg @HStarLLB]

CBSA to use facial recognition app built with Amazon Web Services tech. I for one don't see how anything could go wrong. https://t.co/1ruixg3YXO #privacy #surveillance #CyberSecurity

[Heather Ferg @HStarLLB]

Truth.

[Heather Ferg @HStarLLB]

Beautiful season finale concert with the @ReginaSymphony Chamber Players - Beethoven, Lalo, Harberg & Borodin in the Government House ballroom #QueenCity

[Heather Ferg @HStarLLB]

Delighted and proud Ian McKay @McKayCrDefence has been appointed King's Counsel in today's Order in Council. He is a tireless advocate and it is well deserved. @WiretapLawyer @rankinovitch

https://t.co/ZoqLAYPtN4

[Sarah @rankinovitch]

The behaviour of app providers in this area is especially important given the interest of US law enforcement in states where abortions are now criminalized.

[Heather Ferg @HStarLLB]

BC has certified a class action alleging the Flo Period & Ovulation Tracker app violated users privacy by giving their reproductive info to 3rd party vendors including Facebook, Google, etc. Over 1m Canadians used the app at the relevant time.

https://t.co/h4M3NtrYKx

[Clayton Rice, K.C. @WiretapLawyer]

“Judicial oversight narrows the state’s online reach and removes the decision to disclose information - and how much to disclose - from private corporations and returns it to the purview of the Charter” R. v. Bykovets @SCC_eng 🇨🇦 | #DigitalPrivacy #BigTech https://t.co/BrTcDX9Z7j

[Clayton Rice, K.C. @WiretapLawyer]

Congratulations to colleagues Heather Ferg @HStarLLB and Sarah Rankin @rankinovitch, counsel on R. v. Bykovets, where the Supreme Court of Canada 🇨🇦 ruled today that there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in an internet (IP) address | #DigitalPrivacy https://t.co/Bcr74XmLXr

[WiCCD Women In Canadian Criminal Defence @WiCCD_Canada]

Congratulations to WiCCD’s Vice President (Alberta) @rankinovitch on this amazing and crucially important result!! 💪🔥👏💜

[Supreme Advocacy LLP @supremeadvocacy]

In a 5:4 split, the SCC allows the appeal in R v Bykovets, finding that an IP address attracts a reasonable expectation of privacy meaning that a request by the state for an IP address is a search under s. 8 of the Charter. https://t.co/YEPnRQcoYJ #SCC

[Heather Ferg @HStarLLB]

Founding member of the @AlbertaCTLA Clayton Rice K.C. @wiretaplawyer receiving the Harradence Prize on Dec 15 in Edmonton. It is one of our bar's highest honours and acknowledges a dedicated commitment to the most important principles of our profession.

[Clayton Rice, K.C. @WiretapLawyer]

Another enjoyable evening @CalgaryOpera with colleague Heather Ferg @HStarLLB for opening night of Le nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Premiered in Vienna on 1 May 1786 Le nozze is considered a masterpiece of ‘opera buffa’ | #yyc

[Sarah @rankinovitch]

I'm really proud of our work for the @cancivlib on this file. It is one of the most complex issues I've had the pleasure of working on. A pleasure to work with this group of exceptionally thoughtful interveners. @HStarLLB

[Paul Champ @PaulChampLaw]

Almost 60 law professors from across Canada signed this letter to the Prime Minister, along with an array of prominent lawyers. Canada must be firm and bring this mockery of justice for Hassan Diab to an end.