| Pivot releases tenant rights card, with a warning
Vancouver, July 3, 2008 – Pivot Legal Society released 5,000 of its new Tenant Rights Card today, providing Downtown Eastside tenants with a wallet-sized list of legal rights to assist in interactions with landlords. [more]
B.C. Supreme Court saves InSite
Vancouver safe injection site protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Vancouver, May 28, 2008 – 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.
Click here to read the full text of the decision (pdf 192 KB)
Listen to an interview with John Richardson after the May 27 announcement (6 minutes of 20-minute Pivot Podcast)
More recent news:
Pivot demands action on shelter stats (May 22, 2008)
Elections Act changes will prevent homeless from voting (May 9, 2008) \
BLOG Thoughts and news from Pivot Legal Society lawyer David Eby on the 2010 Olympics, Vancouver, Olympic traffic lanes, housing and other city happenings.
| Kids lost in the system
Pivot releases report on B.C.’s Child Welfare System
 Report authors Darcie Bennett and Lobat Sadrehashemi holding the new report with Amanda Rose from the Kettle Friendship Society.
Pivot’s latest report, Broken Promises - Parents Speak about B.C.’s Child Welfare System was launched at the Carnegie Community Centre on February 20.
Still waiting at the altar
Vancouver 2010’s on-again, off-again, relationship with social sustainability
Read the talk given in Geneva by David Eby for Pivot Legal Society and the Impact of the Olympics on Community Coalition at the COHRE Expert Workshop on Protecting and Promoting Housing Rights in the Context of Mega Events, Geneva, Switzerland, on June 15, 2007:
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report (PDF 216 KB) ]
Link: Read the IOCC report Olympic Oversight Interim Report Card released in May.
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