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What is the Family Policing System?: An Interview with Parents Advocating Collectively for Kin (PACK)

What is the Family Policing System?: An Interview with Parents Advocating Collectively for Kin (PACK)

As we mark Mother’s Day and the International Day of Families, we have been looking back and reflecting on the work West Coast LEAF is currently doing to support families, such as through our legal aid case, economic security Read More

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A piece of feminist history: Celebrating 35 years of West Coast LEAF

This month, West Coast LEAF officially turns 35 years old, which makes the organization just a year younger than me! As a fairly new member of the team (this month is also my one-year anniversary of joining the staff), Read More

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21 Days of Paid Sick Leave: A Feminist Issue

As Canada and the world adapts to a “new normal,” we’re grappling with the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened economic precarity and made inequality increasingly visible. The economic fallout of the pandemic is undeniable. Small businesses are Read More

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Addressing the Child Support Crisis in Canada

In 2018, in anticipation of amendments to the federal Divorce Act, Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould, brought public attention to the vast scope of unpaid child support in Canada. “There are billions of dollars in unpaid child support payments in Read More

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Six Things to Know about The DTES Ethical Research Manifesto

Back in February 2020, which now seems like a lifetime ago, West Coast LEAF signed on as an organizational endorser of Research 101: A Manifesto for Ethical Research in the Downtown Eastside. The Manifesto was developed by peer workers in Read More

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Meet the Report Card Partners

On May 27, we will launch our Gender Equality Report Card. We are excited to share this report assessing what the BC government has done—or failed to do—to advance gender justice and human rights between December 2018 and early Read More

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Mind the Pay Gap: How Legislation Could Help End Pay Discrimination in BC

We, Anastasia, Ashley, Megan and Zev, are graduate students at the School of Public Policy at SFU. We are taking over this week’s FThis! Blog to speak about our partnership with West Coast LEAF on the BC Priorities Project, Read More

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Community in action: Ways you can support our most marginalized communities during Covid-19

In these times of uncertainty where events are rapidly unfolding, it is hard not to feel overwhelmed and daunted by the challenges we must confront. Like many of you, West Coast LEAF’s staff team is in our fifth week Read More

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