October 5, 2022 – For Immediate Release Ottawa, unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe territory – The Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) discriminates against refugee women, yet courts have decided not to consider Read More
Joint submission in response to MCFD’s Child, Family, and Community Service legislative reform
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 Read More
2022 Media Coverage
At West Coast LEAF, we’re proud to make the news regularly, to share our expertise widely, and ultimately to shift public opinion, laws, and policies. Here’s some of what we’ve Read More
RELEASE: Rights group in court to defend right of Single Mothers’ Alliance to challenge BC’s family law legal aid regime
Hearing on Single Mothers’ Alliance public interest standing will take place at the BC Supreme Court August 23-25, 2022. Tuesday, August 23, 2022—For Immediate Release Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish homelands—Today, Read More
MEDIA ADVISORY: Rights group to defend standing of Single Mothers’ Alliance in constitutional challenge to BC’s family law legal aid regime
Hearing on Single Mothers’ Alliance public interest standing will take place at the BC Supreme Court on August 23-25, 2022. Monday, August 22, 2022—For Immediate Release Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish Read More
Release: Supreme Court deems non-consensual condom removal sexual assault
For Immediate Release – Friday, July 29, 2022 Ottawa, unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe territory—Today, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) released a decision in R. v Kirkpatrick that will result in Read More
BC becomes first province to end immigration detention in its jails
In a historic move, BC has become the first Canadian province to end immigration detention in its jails! The province will give Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA) its 12-month written Read More
Joint submission to the Select Standing Committee on Health for its examination of the urgent and ongoing illicit drug toxicity and overdose crisis
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 Read More