2024 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 2024.
December
- “Walking the Intervenor Tightrope“, Canadian Bar Association – BC Branch Bar Talk Magazine, December 6, 2024
November
- “BC’s Limits on Name Changes Hurt the Vulnerable, Advocates Say“, The Tyee, November 13, 2024
August
- “Housing tops list of human rights issues in B.C., report finds“, CBC, August 14, 2024
July
- “How One Boy’s Death Could Change Child Welfare in BC“, The Tyee, July 19, 2024
June
- “WEF: Canada ranks 36th in world for gender equality” (video), Global News, June 19, 2024
May
- “Man vs. bear trend, explained” CBC Radio’s On the Coast with Gloria Macarenko, May 6, 2024
April
- “BC Court of Appeal Recognizes the Myth of False Allegations of Intimate Partner Violence“, Slaw, April 22, 2024
February
- “Human Rights Tribunal has jurisdiction in discrimination claims against family welfare agency: court” Canadian Lawyer Magazine, February 1, 2024
- “Free legal assistance to British Columbians” (radio) The Jill Bennett Show on Global News, February 15, 2024
- “B.C. funds $29M for family violence legal aid” Vancouver Is Awesome, February 15, 2024
- “BC’s new family law legal aid funding resolves long-standing Charter challenge“, Canadian Lawyer Magazine, February 20, 2024
- “Free legal aid a ‘game-changer’ for those fleeing family violence in B.C.“, Rossland News, February 21, 2024
- “Focus BC: Reaction to provincial budget“, (video) Global News BC, February 23, 2024
January
- “B.C. Supreme Court overturns Indigenous mother’s $150K discrimination award” IndigiNews, January 24, 2024
- “B.C. judge overturns ‘unprecedented’ human rights decision” CTV News, January 25, 2024
- “Judge overturns landmark $150K human rights award for mother who claimed discrimination” CBC News, January 27, 2024
- “She sought justice for sexual assault. B.C.’s judge shortage became her battle.” Victoria News, January 29, 2024