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RELEASE: Advocacy group: Government is wrong to stand in the way of legal aid challenge

For immediate release – February 25, 2019 VANCOUVER – This morning, West Coast LEAF is at the BC Supreme Court to defend our case against the Province of BC (“The Province”) and the Legal Services Society (“LSS”) for their Read More

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RELEASE: Budget 2019 brings welcome improvements in benefits but falls short on legal aid

For immediate release – February 19, 2019 VICTORIA – Today, the provincial government released Budget 2019. The budget takes important steps towards addressing poverty in the province. The budget also leaves disappointing gaps in services that will disproportionately impact Read More

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RELEASE: Hate speech hearing set to begin at the BC Human Rights Tribunal

VANCOUVER – This week, West Coast LEAF will intervene at the BC Human Rights Tribunal in a complaint arising under the BC Human Rights Code’s prohibition against discriminatory publications. The case, Oger v Whatcott, will be heard over five Read More

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RELEASE: Report card on gender equality in BC released

For immediate release – December 6, 2018 VANCOUVER – Today, West Coast LEAF released its 10th annual report card on the rights of women in BC. The report card shows that although BC’s grades have improved in six areas, Read More

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RELEASE: Legal aid case must proceed despite the government’s attempt to stop it

For immediate release – December 3, 2018 VANCOUVER – West Coast LEAF has filed responses to the Province’s and the Legal Services Society’s efforts to bring our case challenging BC’s family law legal aid regime  to an end. Last Read More

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RELEASE: New report details why women often do not report sexual assault through the criminal justice system – in their own words

For immediate release – November 5, 2018 VANCOUVER – Today, West Coast LEAF released a report about why women often do not report sexual assault through the criminal justice system – in women’s own voices. We Are Here: Women’s Read More

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RELEASE: Supreme Court Says No to Discriminatory Law School Admissions

For immediate release – June 15, 2018 VANCOUVER – West Coast LEAF welcomes the Supreme Court of Canada’s judgments, released today, in two cases concerning admissions to a proposed law school at Trinity Western University (“TWU”), an Evangelical Christian Read More

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RELEASE: National inquiry six-month extension “too little, too late,” say coalition members

For immediate release – June 11, 2018 COAST SALISH TERRITORY – VANCOUVER – Members of the BC Coalition on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (the coalition) are deeply disappointed that Canada has granted only a six-month extension to Read More

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