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Pivot Legal Society Annual Report 2024

Pivot continues to push forward in our shared fight for dignity and human rights. Throughout the year, Pivot paired strategic litigation with bold movement-building, while also working to strengthen Pivot from the inside out. Thank you for your trust and work alongside us. Your support matters.
By Taz Khandwani Taz Khandwani | Jun 30, 2025 | Blog, Annual Reports

Pivot to Intervene at the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) in Dorsey v. AG of Canada

At a time when 51% of Indigenous and Black people are being classified and confined to maximum-security prisons, the mass incarceration and hyper-securitization of Indigenous and Black peoples, under the pretext of public safety considerations, in Canada’s prison system remains a critical racial justice issue. In an order by the SCC’s first Indigenous judge, Justice O’Bonsawin, Pivot was granted leave to intervene at the Supreme Court of Canada in Frank Dorsey and Ghassan Salah v Attorney General of Canada.
By Simone Akyianu Simone Akyianu | Mar 18, 2025 | Criminalization and Policing, Sex Workers' Rights, Blog, Legal Submissions

Marked: Poverty Discrimination is a Public Health Issue and the Human Rights Code Can Help

Connecting the intersecting fields of social justice and public health by illustrating the undeniable link between the structural determinants of health and a person’s social condition on their quality of life.
By Nina Taghaddosi Nina Taghaddosi | Feb 12, 2025 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog, Anti-Stigma

No Arrests for Drug Possession at an Overdose

Pivot to appear before the Supreme Court of Canada to fight clawbacks to the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act Pivot has been granted leave to make submissions on the real-world impacts of potential clawbacks to the Act, and the need for laws like this one to grant vitally necessary legal protection in the face of a deadly drug poisoning crisis. This is the only way that the law can be effective in achieving its aim: saving lives.
By Caitlin Shane Caitlin Shane | Oct 21, 2024 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog, Drug Policy Reform

Policing Race, Gender and Sex Work: A Sex Work Decrim Panel

Policing Race, Gender & Sex Work Learn about impacts of sex work criminalization on Black sex workers, and the ways in which advocates pushback against the erasure & racialized, gendered policing of sex work through court challenges, organizing, and community care.
By Simone Akyianu Simone Akyianu | Sep 18, 2024 | Criminalization and Policing, Sex Workers' Rights, Blog

Pivot Legal Society Annual Report 2023

⭐️ Pivot's Annual Report 2023! ❤️️ A window into Pivot's work! We hope this inspires and educates.✊🏽
By Taz Khandwani Taz Khandwani | Aug 22, 2024 | Blog, Annual Reports

Impacted Families Call for Inquiry Amidst Failings of Civilian Police Oversight in B.C.

Impacted Families Call for Inquiry Amidst Failings of Civilian Police Oversight in B.C. Join the call and stand in solidarity with Indigenous families: https://www.pivotlegal.org/demandjustice
By Simone Akyianu Simone Akyianu | Jul 23, 2024 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog

Pivot's Statement of Solidarity With Palestine

Pivot wishes to voice full support for a permanent ceasefire and for the liberation of Palestine from settler colonization and imperialism. We unequivocally condemn the genocidal campaign of ethnic cleansing that the nation-state of Israel has waged against the Palestinian people for over 75 years, including a 16-year siege of Gaza.  
By Taz Khandwani Taz Khandwani | Jan 26, 2024 | Blog, Letters & Statements

Building Community Power for Housing as a Human Right - Part 3

If BC is to implement provincial tenancy laws, those protections must be afforded to all renters, and courts must be attuned to the adverse impacts of carving out whole communities from tenancy rights that they are legally entitled to.
By Simone Akyianu Simone Akyianu | Sep 28, 2023 | Blog, Homes For All

Tenancy Rights Amidst BC’s Housing Crisis - Part 2

This fall PIVOT & OHCW will be at BCCA intervening in a case that will impact the applicability of RTA on people residing in non-profit, “supportive” housing. Learn more about this case by reading second part of a three-part blog series.
By Simone Akyianu Simone Akyianu | Sep 13, 2023 | Blog, ICYMI, Homes For All
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Pivot Legal Society is located on stolen lands of the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation). We are grateful to Indigenous Peoples for their continuous relationship with their lands and are committed to learning to work in solidarity as accomplices in shifting the colonial default. 

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