Check out our Winter 2016 LEAFlet for news about our amazing Equality Breakfast 2017 keynote speaker Cindy Blackstock, the newest members of our education team, our work defending equality rights in law schools, and much more! Read More
Fighting for your rights within the bureaucracy of some administrative law regimes can be daunting, confusing, and disempowering. When you’re challenging the denial of workers compensation or income assistance benefits, the last thing you need is a complex set Read More
Reporting sexual assault is an act of courage. No one who comes forward about an experience of sexual violence should be met with character attacks, insinuations that she was ‘asking for it,’ or blame for failing to fight off Read More
How do Canadian women’s rights measure up internationally? As it turns out, not so well. It is tempting to think that the state of women’s inequality at home would not warrant international attention. And yet, last week the UN Read More
The legal profession got a little less equal today, as the BC Court of Appeal (“BCCA”) has dismissed an appeal regarding the Law Society of BC’s rejection of the proposed law school at Trinity Western University (“TWU”). Having a Read More
Today, we’re in Geneva joining other feminist lawyers and NGOs to speak up for BC women’s rights at the United Nations. As the international spotlight shines on Canada’s track record on women’s human rights, BC is caught in the Read More
Every year, West Coast LEAF grades BC on how it’s meeting its international obligations on women’s rights. Every year, for the most part, we find meaningful progress lacking. So, how is BC measuring up on women’s equality in 2016? Read More
What good is equality law if it doesn’t offer meaningful protection to those who experience the most discrimination and marginalization in our society? This week, West Coast LEAF is at the BC Court of Appeal in coalition with the Read More
Imagine you have a roommate who’s also a friend and sometimes picks up your child from school as a favour to you. Would you expect your roommate to provide for you financially just because they sometimes help out with Read More
