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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

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

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

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

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

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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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

RELEASE: Changes to National Inquiry needed to meaningfully meet its mandate

For immediate release – May 14, 2018 VANCOUVER – This morning, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (“Inquiry”) begins the first of four days of expert hearings. West Coast LEAF is in Quebec City Read More

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