The Pivot Blog

Liability & Mutual Aid During COVID-19

Do you have protection from liability when providing voluntary services and exercising mutual aid during COVID-19? Legal information for service providers in BC.

Sozan Savehilaghi | Apr 15, 2020 | Public Legal Education

Call for Local and Provincial Officials to Use Emergency Powers to House all Unhoused BC Residents

Together with BCAAFC, BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, and Carnegie Community Action Project, we sent a letter this morning urging immediate action to address the threat of #COVID19 for people who are unhoused and inadequately housed in British Columbia.

Sozan Savehilaghi | Apr 09, 2020 | Press Releases

Call for Immediate Action to use Emergency Powers to House all Unhoused BC Residents

We call on BC and Vancouver officials to urgently exercise their respective authorities in full, pursuant to emergency legislation, to rapidly house every BC resident without housing.

Anna Cooper | Apr 09, 2020 | Letters & Statements

Pivot Legal calls for the VPD to immediately cease practices undermining public health in DTES amid COVID-19

Sozan Savehilaghi | Apr 02, 2020 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases

Calls for Vancouver Police to stop undermining public health in the DTES

Meenakshi Mannoe | Apr 02, 2020 | Letters & Statements

Statement of Support for Hothouse Squat amid COVID-19

Anna Cooper | Apr 01, 2020 | Letters & Statements

Letter to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society Regarding "Client Re-Registration" Policy Changes

Meenakshi Mannoe | Apr 01, 2020 | Letters & Statements

The Case for Prison Needle Exchange Programs

Simons et al. v Minister of Public Safety et al.

Caitlin Shane | Mar 16, 2020 | Blog, Drug Policy Reform

Landmark Ontario Case Rules Certain Sex Work Laws Unconstitutional

Kerry Porth | Mar 05, 2020 | Sex Workers' Rights, Blog

Community groups call for a moratorium on street checks

Sozan Savehilaghi | Feb 20, 2020 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases

Stigma and Criminalization of Sex Work Facilitated the Murder of Marylène Levesque

Kerry Porth | Feb 15, 2020 | Sex Workers' Rights, Blog

Legal Information for People Attending Wet'suwet'en Solidarity Actions

Legal information provided as a guide for people attending Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Actions.

Pivot Legal Society | Feb 14, 2020 | Public Legal Education

BC's new policing standards are not a moratorium on "street stops"

Meenakshi Mannoe | Feb 05, 2020 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog

Headlines in 2020

Pivot Legal Society headlines, in the news in 2020

Pivot Legal Society | Jan 31, 2020 | In the News

Call for donations to Unist'ot'en Legal Fund

A letter to our legal colleagues calling for financial contributions to the Unist'ot'en Legal Fund in support and defence of Wet'suwet'en people's rights and title to their territories.

Sozan Savehilaghi | Jan 23, 2020 | Letters & Statements