October / November / December
Print & Online:
- Woman injured from fire at homeless camp in Maple Ridge
- Rearview: Maple Ridge’s tent city still around, unresolved
- VIDEO: Legal society challenges latest Maple Ridge action
- Tailor release conditions to individual circumstances, legal advocacy group urges
- Consumption sites defend downtown Edmonton location
- Legal showdown coming for Edmonton supervised injection sites
- Law enforcement over-policing and under-protecting B.C.’s most vulnerable, report says
- Pivot Legal Society reveals how police can undermine harm-reduction efforts
- Court-imposed behavioural conditions may lead to repeat offences, report says
- Free resources launched to support British Columbians struggling with addiction, loss and grief
- Darren McKim died after a fire in Rosedale. Police ruled it an accident. His family says it wasn’t
- How a Canadian law meant to protect sex workers is making it harder for them to stay safe
- Concern raised by mother over injuries caused to her family by Cold Lake police dog
- Video tells story of Maple Ridge tent city residents
- How Vancouver’s Next Mayor Can Help End the Opioid Crisis
- Helping Victoria’s homeless requires a change in our attitudes
Broadcast:
- Pivot defends access to harm reduction at Federal Court of Canada
- Consumption sites defend downtown Edmonton location
- Legal showdown coming for Edmonton supervised injection sites
- Pivot Releases New Report: Project Inclusion
July / August / September
Print & Online:
- Vancouver police chief defends cops accused of bullying on DTES
- CTV News: Legal society poster seeks complainants against two cops on Downtown Eastside
- Locals Are Posting Flyers All Over Vancouver Calling Out Two Cops For Bullying People On The Streets
- Poster campaign seeks complaints against two VPD officers
- DTES advocacy group soliciting complaints against 'hostile' police officers
- Vancouver cops accused of bullying on Downtown Eastside
- Poster campaign seeks complaints against two VPD officers
- Vernon, B.C., abandons shopping cart ban as way to discourage homelessness
- Vernon council quashes shopping cart ban
- City administration advises against Vernon shopping cart ban
- What Island tent cities have in common: a guiding hand from Surrey
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Vancouver police change their tune in the days following a questionable cannabis confiscation
Vancouver cops in Downtown Eastside weed seizure to face misconduct complaint - Vancouver Sun: Legal society poster seeks complainants against two cops on Downtown Eastside
- Vancouver Courier: Legal society poster seeks complainants against two cops on Downtown Eastside
- The Battlefords: Legal society poster seeks complainants against two cops on Downtown Eastside
- Two Vancouver police officers accused of harassment in the Downtown Eastside
- Regina Park campers move to nearby park, plan next move
- Clearing Maple Ridge’s camp complex for courts
- Campers gone from Regina Park tent city in Saanich; cleanup begins
- Governments have failed Canada’s sex workers—and they’re running out of patience
- Vernon Council votes down shopping cart ban
- British Columbia RCMP tasered minors four times in 2016. Here’s what happened
- Vernon council may reverse decision on shopping cart ban
- Fire safety clean-up set for Maple Ridge tent city
- Saanich rejects delay for homeless camp injunction
- Pickup in Maple Ridge park problem parked
Broadcast:
- News 1130 (hourly newscasts, Sept. 27): Pivot Legal Society continue taking complaints against two VPD officers
- Talking to Pivot Legal Society about the campaign to register and report complaints against two VPD officers
- News 1130 (hourly newscasts, Sept. 23): VPD community safety rally and poster campaign after High Hopes raid
- Is the battle of supervised injection sites back in Ontario?
- Drug policy beyond the four pillars
- Community safety rally planned for Tuesday at Overdose Prevention Society
- DTES advocacy group soliciting complaints against 'hostile' police officers
- VPD community safety rally and poster campaign after High Hopes raid (8:30)
- VPD community safety rally and poster campaign after High Hopes raid (4:00)
- Vernon council quashes shopping cart ban
May / June
Print & Online:
- 'You can't stop homeless people from existing by moving them': Lawyer calls out tent evictions
- Local march calling on changes to Canada's prostitution laws
- Tent city campers find strength together, fend off contempt and Molotov cocktails
- Homeless tent cities play life-saving role and should be embraced, not battled, expert says
- Visualizing Data for Legal Advocacy
- Should Canada make adequate housing a human right?
- Revelstoke Review: Penticton homeless campers devastated by park cleanup
- Salmon Arm Observer: Penticton homeless campers devastated by park cleanup
- Penticton Western News: Penticton homeless campers devastated by park cleanup
- ‘Lost in the shuffle’: Penticton homeless struggle with camp restrictions
- Homelessness still on the rise despite housing initiatives in Vancouver
- Changes coming to Vancouver’s nightlife district on Granville Street
Broadcast:
- Lawyer concerned that new modular housing project in Whalley is unsuitable as a long-term solution in the area
- Jun 9; News 1130 hourly newscasts; 2018 Red Umbrella March
- CBC Winnipeg 6pm newscast; Winnipeg tent city
March / April
Print & Online:
- Liberals Slated To Debate Decriminalization Of Sex Work In Canada
- B.C.'s Attorney-General David Eby under pressure but 'energized' by daunting workload
- Outreach workers struggle to help homeless people pushed out of tent cities
- Justice for B.C.’s homeless
- Zoned Out: Critics say police-imposed area restrictions put vulnerable people at risk
- 10 more months for Okanagan shoplifting, drunk driving rampage
- Challenge to victim surcharge heads to Supreme Court
- Critic says biased policing a reality for Indigenous communities
- Caitlin Shane: Drug prohibition is the radical policy, not legal regulation
- Pivot thanks Rob Milne and family for donation large enough to keep the scrappy nonprofit going for a decade
Broadcast:
- Liberal party to debate sex work decriminalization at national convention
- Pivot heading to Supreme Court to fight mandatory victim fine surcharge (Apr. 12 newscasts at 8pm, 9pm, 10pm)
- Officer praised for arrest of Toronto van attack suspect Alek Minassian
- Citytv Vancouver/Toronto - Pivot heading to Supreme Court of Canada to fight mandatory victim fine surcharge
February
Print & Online:
- Make Granville Street safer, homicide victim's sister urges Vancouver council
- Legally owned goods getting swept up in DTES theft crackdown: vendors
- 'I'm not sure where race fits into this': Vancouver police respond to controversial arrest
- Coroner’s inquest makes 29 recommendations in fatal police shooting of Tony Du
- Coroners inquest into fatal shooting of mentally ill man returns with 29 recommendations
- Tony Du wouldn't have been killed if I hadn't called 911, testifies witness to police shooting
- 'I never felt threatened:' Eyewitness to shooting of Tony Du testifies in court
- Lawyers to offer five recommendations in inquest into 2014 Tony Du death
- Inquest begins into death of man with mental health issues shot dead by Vancouver police
- Witness says Tony Du would be alive if he hadn't called police
- Pivot Legal Society calls for more police training around mental health
- Murdered man's family supports security cameras on Granville strip
- Vancouver drug users take to the street to demand decriminalization
- Donated items also seized by Vancouver Police in initiative to fight crime, residents say
- DTES advocates say increased police presence targets poor and homeless
- Community vigil will be held for Tony Du following release of coroner's jury recommendations
- Jury makes 29 recommendations in Vancouver police shooting death of Tony Du
- Watchdog admits it took too long to analyze police taking pictures of mentally ailing man
- Watchdog admits it took too long to investigate police shooting of mentally ill man
- Man shot lifeless by Vancouver police a ‘continual schizophrenic,’ inquest informed
- Council passes controversial nuisance bylaw
- Push for police to make use of shields, not weapons throughout psychological well being calls
- Man shot dead by Vancouver police a ‘chronic schizophrenic,’ inquest told
- Advocates fear Downtown Eastside police crackdown pushes drug users into shadows
Broadcast:
- Finding A Fix: Our Opioid Overdose Crisis
- Day of Action on Drug Decriminalization held in Downtown Vancouver
- How has the police been dealing with mental illness?
- Lawyers to offer five recommendations in inquest into 2014 Tony Du death (News 1130, daily newscasts)
- Inquest begins into death of man with mental health issues shot dead by Vancouver police (CKNW, daily newscasts)
- Pivot Legal Society calls for more police training around mental health
- Legally owned goods getting swept up in DTES theft crackdown: vendors
- 'I'm not sure where race fits into this': Vancouver police respond to controversial arrest
- Coroner’s jury findings are released
- Tony Du coroner's inquest, final day (Global News, 6pm newscast, @ 3:00 min.)
- Coroner’s witness claims police overreacted in death of mentally ill man
- Tony Du inquest continues (BT Vancouver, morning newscast)
- Coroner's inquest begins today into the death of Tony Du, shot and killed by VDP (BT Vancouver, morning newscast)
- Nuisance Bylaw In Effect
- Police shooting victim had a gambling addiction
- Tony Du coroner’s inquest
January
Print & Online:
- Overdose deaths in B.C. at all time high, again
- Kerry Porth: Why feminism must include the fight for sex workers' rights
- Anti-poverty group cautions Prince George, B.C. against bylaw meant to cut down on police calls
- Dawson: The young lead the old on sex work law reform
- Is Libby Davies running for mayor?
- John Ivison: Liberal foot-dragging on prostitution law may lead to Charter challenge
- Rights group, landlords protest proposed city bylaw
- Vulnerable renters at risk?
- New App Aims To Improve Safety of Sex Workers
- BC city's plan to fine landlords for using up police time 'morally reprehensible,' legal society says
- ‘How’ land is used, not for ‘who’: B.C. lawyers’ group wants ‘social condition’ as a human right
- Opposition to social housing in B.C. reveals discrimination, say lawyers
- What's making news in British Columbia
- Vancouver police officer not charged after deploying service dog that seriously injured suspect's arm
- Pacey leaving Pivot Legal Society
Broadcast:
- Prince George bylaw is morally reprehensible and could be fatal for vulnerable communities
- Is it Time to Add "Social Condition" to the Human Rights Code in BC?
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