In October 2016, West
Coast LEAF partnered with the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC on a submission to the United Nations about the essential role of child care for fulfilling Canada's obligations under CEDAW (the Convention on the Read More
Not exact matches
Energy giant Woodside Petroleum says it has completed its $ US440 million purchase of ConocoPhillips» stake in an oilfield off the
coast of Senegal, despite
leaving a contractual dispute with one of the project's
partners unresolved.
The path to the British Columbia
coast has many hurdles
left for Calgary - based Enbridge (TSX: ENB) and its
partners.
Lydia Jett has
left her position as vice president with private equity firm M / C
Partners to join SoftBank as an investor in their West
Coast office.
When West
Coast LEAF travelled around BC to present our Financials in Family Law workshop, we heard time and time again that service providers were seeking legal information and strategies to support women to navigate legal issues around parenting after separation from an abusive
partner.
The charity, West
Coast LEAF,
partnered with the law school at the University of British Columbia to open a full service storefront legal clinic that will serve low income women.
West
Coast LEAF is proud to be a legal education
partner and contributor to From the Ground Up, a youth anti-violence workshop guide by Girls Action Foundation.
Many of our coalition
partners and allies, such as the Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, West
Coast LEAF, Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS), Inclusion BC, the Canadian Mental Health Association - BC Division, BC ACORN, Raise the Rates and the Single Mothers» Alliance BC, wrote to government and spoke up about the urgent need to rectify this policy and its negative impacts on child well - being.
The West
Coast Legal Education and Action Fund's [
LEAF] position paper captures this vividly: «[A] busive sponsors prey upon the precarious immigration status of their
partners to control their behaviour and stop them from reporting the violence or
leaving the relationship.»
Huge thanks to Legal Services Society for funding the translations and
partnering with West
Coast LEAF to produce Is That Legal?