Your Words Are Worth Something is a report based on findings from the Older Women’s Dialogue Project, a collaboration between West Coast LEAF and the Canadian Centre for Elder Law from 2012 to 2015. (The Canadian Centre for Elder Law carried out an additional phase of the project until 2017.) The Older Women’s Dialogue Project … Read more Your Words Are Worth Something
In March 2013, we wrote the position paper Access to Abortion and Contraception. Publications
Read our 2012 Annual Report to learn about West Coast LEAF’s work for gender justice in the 2011/2012 fiscal year. Publications
Case summary Moore v Ministry of Education specifically concerns discrimination against severely learning-disabled (SLD) students, but the Supreme Court of Canada decision on the case will have important implications for many others experiencing discrimination. Jeffrey Moore, a student with severe dyslexia, required significant special education to meet his educational needs. When the school district cancelled its … Read more Moore v Ministry of Education
Read our 2011 Annual Report to learn about West Coast LEAF’s work for gender justice in the 2010/2011 fiscal year. Publications
In 2011, we released an Equality Impact Statement on the issue of home heating, along with a backgrounder on this issue. Publications
Read our 2010 Annual Report to learn about West Coast LEAF’s work for gender justice in the 2009/2010 fiscal year. Publications
Read our 2009 Annual Report to learn about West Coast LEAF’s work for gender justice in the 2008/2009 fiscal year. Publications
Read our 2008 Annual Report to learn about West Coast LEAF’s work for gender justice in the 2007/2008 fiscal year. Publications
Case summary Watson and Spratt challenged the Access to Abortion Services Act, which creates a no-protest (“bubble”) zone around abortion clinics to allow women access to clinic services free of unwanted approaches by anti-abortion protesters. Watson and Spratt argued that the bubble zone law violated their Charter right to freedom of expression. Watson/Spratt is an extension of the Lewis and Demers cases. In R … Read more Watson v R; Spratt v R [2008]