What is the BC Gender Equality Report Card? The Gender Equality Report Card assesses BC’s progress in advancing gender equality over a given time period. It is an advocacy tool to hold the BC government accountable to respecting the Read More
Single Mothers’ Alliance v BC: Taking the fight for family law legal aid to court
Family justice not family violence In BC, most applications for family law legal aid are denied outright or the legal support provided is insufficient to achieve any meaningful resolution. As a result, many people fleeing family violence are faced Read More
Child Welfare Advocacy Communities of Practice
About the project Throughout our Shifting the Child Protection System project, West Coast LEAF heard very clearly from parents, community members, front-line family-support staff, and lawyers for the need to build communities that work to support one another when advocating for Read More
Re-Envisioning Public Legal Education and Information (PLEI)
Looking back and looking forward For more than 20 years, West Coast LEAF has offered legal education workshops across BC, on topics ranging from consent to family law. We have also collaborated with other organizations to publish and distribute Read More
Feminist Economic Framework
In BC, like elsewhere around the world, economic insecurity disproportionately impacts women and those facing interlocking forms of marginalization. Women and people who are marginalized because of their gender are overrepresented in low-wage, precarious, and non-unionized work; experience higher Read More
Responding to COVID-19: Community in Action
During the COVID-19 crisis, our commitment to advocating for gender equity and justice is as strong as ever. The pandemic has dramatically highlighted the deep inequalities in our social, economic, and justice systems. As part of our efforts to Read More
