Alongside Rise Women’s Legal Centre, Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS), Feminists Deliver, and individual signatories Frances Rosner and Meena Dhillon, West Coast LEAF made a joint submission to the Ministry of Child and Family Development (MCFD) to provide input into Read More
Press Release: Over 125 organizations and advocates demand BC enact pay equity legislation March 2, 2023 – For Immediate Release Vancouver, unceded Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) homelands – A coalition of more than 125 leading BC Read More
West Coast LEAF has joined a coalition of more than 125 leading BC organizations, academics, and advocates who are calling on the BC government to urgently enact pay equity legislation. BC is tied with Alberta for having the worst Read More
We are calling on the BC government and Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) to dismantle the framework for policing and surveilling families. The current culture, policies, training, and tools that guide the family policing system in BC Read More
Alongside Keeping Families Together, Parents Advocating Collectively for Kin, RainCity Housing and Support Society, Atira Women’s Resource Society, Feminists Deliver, and several individual signatories, West Coast LEAF made a joint submission to the Ministry of Child and Family Development’s Read More
About our submission In July 2022, West Coast LEAF partnered with Parents Advocating Collectively for Kin (PACK) to make an oral presentation to BC’s Ministry of Health about how the family policing system undermines the health, safety, and Read More
On July 22, 2022, West Coast LEAF appeared before BC’s Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services to share our key recommendations for Budget 2023. The Committee is conducting public consultations on priorities for the next provincial budget Read More
In August 2021, the BC Office of the Human Rights Commissioner (BCOHRC) launched a human rights inquiry into surging hate during the COVID-19 pandemic. In April 2022, West Coast LEAF made written submissions to the inquiry regarding the concerning Read More
