The Pivot Blog

Pivot Legal joins calls to prevent halfway house on prison grounds

Halfway homes don't belong on prison grounds! Pivot Legal joins advocates in the Yukon to urge respect for residents’ rights.

Sozan Savehilaghi | May 04, 2020 | Letters & Statements

Premier Horgan urged to deploy a public health response to housing not enforcement

Reports of a potential Provincial order of enforcement against unsheltered people who do not access temporary accommodations made available to them during COVID-19 has spread amongst unsheltered people in Vancouver.

Anna Cooper | Apr 24, 2020 | Letters & Statements

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

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

Meenakshi Mannoe | Apr 02, 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

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 | Drug Policy Reform, Blog

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 | Press Releases, Criminalization and Policing

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

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

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