West Coast LEAF News

To learn about West Coast LEAF’s latest work for gender equality, read our latest LEAFlet newsletter, published in December 2018!   Read More

Today, as we commemorate the anniversary of the brutal murders of 14 women at Montreal’s École Polytechnique in 1989, we pledge to fight. On this National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women, we release our 10th Read More

After facing year after year of government inaction on family law legal aid, last year we launched a lawsuit against the BC government and the Legal Services Society asking for something very straightforward: a legal aid regime that gives Read More

Isolating people in prison for up to 23 hours per day is against the law. Today, we are back in court to intervene in the ongoing Charter challenge to solitary confinement together with our friends at the Native Women’s Read More

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 Experiences of the Barriers to Reporting Sexual Assault centres women’s Read More

A huge amount of work remains to be done to shift society, including the criminal justice system, to better support people who have been sexually assaulted. Today, West Coast LEAF is proud to release our new animated video, The Read More

This week, West Coast LEAF made budget submissions to the provincial and federal governments. We urged both levels of government to build budgets that will advance equality in BC and throughout Canada. On Monday, we urged BC to use Read More

Dignity and safety are at the heart of equality. Last Friday, West Coast LEAF was granted leave to intervene in an important case about dignity and safety for trans people. In BC, the Human Rights Code (“Code”) sets out Read More