July 17, 2008 • 8:46 pm 0
For Immediate Release July 17, 2008
VANCOUVER – Pivot Legal Society, VANDU and the United Native Nations have filed a Human Rights complaint against the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association (DVBIA) and Geoff Plant in his role as Civil City Commissioner. Read the rest of this entry »
May 30, 2008 • 6:56 pm 0
Media Release – For Immediate Release May 22, 2008
Vancouver – Pivot Legal Society is demanding that the City of Vancouver place a moratorium on tickets given to people sleeping outside in light of newly released shelter statistics that say homeless individuals, on over 40,000 separate occasions, were refused access to shelters in Metro Vancouver over a nine month period. Over 17,000 of these turn away incidents involved women and families. Read the rest of this entry »
• 6:49 pm 0
For immediate release, May 28, 2008
Vancouver – In a landmark ruling released yesterday, the B.C. Supreme Court ruled that Insite, North America’s first safe injection site, is protected by the Canadian Constitution. In delivering its ruling, the court struck down those sections of the Canadian Drugs and Substances Act which prohibit the possession and handling of illegal narcotics within Insite. Read the rest of this entry »
• 6:41 pm 0
For immediate release, May 9, 2008
Vancouver – Pivot Legal Society, VANDU, the BC Civil Liberties Association and the Impact on Communities Coalition are calling into question the constitutionality of new amendments to the Elections Act which will place greater restrictions on the right of homeless and low-income people to vote. Read the rest of this entry »
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Sunday, April 27, 2007
Press Advisory: For Immediate Release
On Monday, April 28, Pivot Legal Society director John Conroy will be representing the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users in a 10-day trial challenging the Federal Minister of Health’s ability to close Insite, the safe injection site in Vancouver. Read the rest of this entry »
