The Site C Dam is a large-scale hydroelectric dam currently under construction on the Peace River in northeastern British Columbia. It is situated on the traditional territory of the Treaty 8 First Nations.

In 2013, the Canada v Bedford case saw the Criminal Code provisions regulating sex work in Canada struck down as unconstitutional. The new legislation introduced by the federal government to regulate this area,

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women recently published a report following its review of Canada’s progress and fulfillment of its obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against ...

In November the Supreme Court of Canada rendered a decision which brings to a close a 14-year legal battle between the BC Teachers’ Federation and the government of British Columbia. The court concluded that in 2002 the BC government violated the Chart...

June 2016 – Human Rights Commissions are considered part of the trifecta of human rights institutions: a tribunal to adjudicate complaints, a clinic to represent complainants, and a commission to represent the public interest.

November 14, 2016 – The case of Adam Capay in Ontario has risen to media prominence this fall as a troubling example of the use of solitary confinement in the criminal justing system, a practice that a United Nations Special Rapporteur has equated with...

October 24, 2016 – Tent cities have become a fixture of urban life in British Columbia. In two recent cases the BC courts have examined the law related to tent cities in Abbotsford and Victoria. Hear housing and homelessness lawyer DJ Larkin of the Piv...

October 14, 2016 – The online resource-sharing site PovNet has provided anti-poverty advocates across BC with information, networks, and training for almost two decades now. The organization aims to help address the “digital divide” that arises when po...

May 2016 – The Living Wage. It’s an appealing idea: people should earn enough to meaningfully participate in society and to be able to raise children. But how exactly is the living wage calculated? How does the line set by the living wage really differ...

April 2016 – Late last year the Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC released a report, Access Denied: Record Retention and Disposal Practices of the Government of British Columbia. Describing what has come to be called the triple delete scandal...