Equal Pay Day is on April 16 in BC. This year, it’s taken racialized women 106 more days of work to earn the same pay as white men in the previous year. This form of inequality is known as the pay gap. The gap widens for workers who are gendered, Indigenous, racialized, disabled, trans, non-binary, … Read more Equal Pay Day 2025
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 2025. May February
West Coast LEAF stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people in the face of the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The Safe Shelter Survey is a human rights awareness-raising and accountability tool to document emergency shelter…
Today, we were at BC’s 2024 Budget presentation in Victoria on the unceded Coast Salish homelands of the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples to hear whether the government will implement our key recommendations. Lawsuit settlement provides some much-need support, but not enough Last week, we announced a historic win as the government settled our lawsuit brought … Read more Budget 2024: Historic legal aid expansion, but lots left to do
We’re proud to make the news regularly, to share our expertise widely, and ultimately to shift public opinion, laws, and policies…
On June 15, 2023, West Coast LEAF appeared before BC’s Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services to share our key recommendations for Budget 2024…
We offer legal education that is based on our feminist and social justice values. In addition to providing information about law…
Using the 2021/2022 Gender Equality Report Card, this free online discussion between West Coast LEAF and Disability Without Poverty highlights…
West Coast LEAF has made a submission to the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction, as part of the call for updates to TogetherBC: B.C.’s Poverty Reduction Strategy. Our submission urges the ministry to take an intersectional and rights-based approach to ending poverty. Using findings from our comprehensive 2021/2022 Gender Equality Report Card, we describe how … Read more Submission on BC’s updated poverty reduction strategy