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 submission to the Ministry of Child and Family Development’s 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 been up to in 2022. March “Wise practices 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, West Coast LEAF is in court to defend the 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 homelands—Tomorrow, West Coast LEAF will be speaking at a 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 a broader recognition of non-consensual condom refusal or removal 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 notice to terminate the immigration detention contract this week. 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 the family policing system undermines the health, safety, and Read More
Help us ensure safety for women and gender diverse refugees
Many of you have been following the challenge to the Safe Third Country Act (STCA) and its impact on refugees seeking safety and freedom from persecution in their country of origin. The case has now made it up to Read More