Data reveals that increased policing has done nothing to end the overdose crisis and stop the loss of life.

Life-saving services should be supported by government: Our statement to the City of Ottawa and Queen's Park

A proposed bylaw change could allow the City to target and discriminate against people who are homeless in parks.

Drug sniffing dogs in apartment buildings will further marginalize vulnerable people.

Pivot, along with Community Legal Assistance Society, West Coast LEAF, and BC Civil Liberties Association, is calling for significant, systemic reform to British Columbia's ailing justice system. These recommendations will uplift marginalized and Indigenous communities left behind by inadequate laws and policies.

Bill C-37 is a step in the right direction but does not go far enough in ensuring the safety of individuals who use drugs. Our recommendations are meant to allow for easier access to life-saving harm reduction services by removing some of the logistical barriers for service providers hoping to save lives.

Operation Northern Spotlight is a project ill-conceived by Durham Regional Police in Ontario in 2014 to "rescue" sex workers from human trafficking by targeting and investigating them. Typically, police officers posing as clients set up dates online with sex workers, through websites like Craigslist and Backpage, then surprise them in hotel rooms. Since 2014, there have been five "waves" of Operation Northern Spotlight coordinated among law enforcement agencies across Canada. The latest campaign in October 2016 involved 53 police agencies in nine provinces working in conjunction with the FBI. Only a few law enforcement agencies in BC participated in 2015 and 2016.

The RCMP could be playing a role in the prevalence of fatal overdoses by arresting people at the scene of 911 calls.

Pivot Legal Society, BC Civil Liberties Association, West Coast LEAF, and Community Legal Assistance Society have joined forced to urge the government to enact significant legal and policy reform in favour of marginalized, racialized, and Indigenous communities across British Columbia.

Among the recommendations include expanding BC’s prescription heroin program, reforming punitive and harmful drug laws, and addressing the stigma faced by people who use drugs.

You can refuse to talk to police or answer their questions unless you are in a bar or a cinema, driving a car, or they say you broke the law.

The BC NDP announced plans to revive the BC Human Rights Commission. British Columbia has been the only province in Canada without a commission since it was dismantled by the Liberals in 2002.