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Letters & Statements

On International Overdose Awareness Day, we remember and fight for those we have lost to a senseless war on drugs

On International Overdose Awareness Day, we remember and fight for those we have lost to a senseless war on drugs. Read Pivot Legal Society's statement. #EndOverdose
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Aug 30, 2019 | Drug Policy Reform, Letters & Statements

Letter to Lethbridge City Council Regarding Motion on Supervised Consumption Sites

By Kaymi Yoon-Maxwell Kaymi Yoon-Maxwell | Aug 20, 2019 | Letters & Statements

Joint Letter to Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General: A Harm Reduction-Based Approach to Policing

By Kaymi Yoon-Maxwell Kaymi Yoon-Maxwell | Jun 11, 2019 | Letters & Statements

Letter Concerning Overdose Prevention Site at Royal Crescent in Maple Ridge

By Kaymi Yoon-Maxwell Kaymi Yoon-Maxwell | Jun 07, 2019 | Letters & Statements

Letter to City Council of Squamish Against Proposed Bylaw to Regulate Camping

By Anna Cooper Anna Cooper | May 22, 2019 | Letters & Statements

Joint Letter to Ministry of Health: A Human-Rights Based Approach to Drug Policy

Overreliance on prohibition and punishment is ineffective, a waste of public funds, and taking a terrible human toll on people who use drugs and their families and loved ones
By Peter Kim Peter Kim | Nov 22, 2018 | Drug Policy Reform, Letters & Statements

Letter to Canada's Health Minister in Support of Safer Opioids

"Without access to safer alternatives, a toxic, street-based drug supply will continue to be a government-sanctioned death sentence for people who use drugs."
By Kaymi Yoon-Maxwell Kaymi Yoon-Maxwell | Sep 27, 2018 | Drug Policy Reform, Letters & Statements

Letter to the City of Vernon Against Proposed Shopping Cart Ban

#PivotLegal successfully fought back against a proposed law that would have endangered the lives of people who are homeless
By Kaymi Yoon-Maxwell Kaymi Yoon-Maxwell | Sep 10, 2018 | Homes For All, Letters & Statements

Tony Du Coroner's Inquest Jury Recommendations

Tony Du was fatally shot by Vancouver Police in 2014. These 29 recommendations by are meant to ensure that never happens again.
By Peter Kim Peter Kim | Feb 12, 2018 | Criminalization and Policing, Letters & Statements

Memphis Model Crisis Intervention Team Program

Memphis Model CIT is an innovative, community-based, and collaborative program to increase safety for persons in crisis, family members, the public, and police officers, and to divert individuals living with mental illness from the criminal justice system to appropriate mental health supports in a safe and effective manner.
By Peter Kim Peter Kim | Feb 10, 2018 | Criminalization and Policing, Letters & Statements
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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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