Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Refugee Hearing Preparation: A Guide for Refugee Claimants
This guide explains how to prepare for a refugee hearing. The booklet has information about how to prepare the documents, important deadlines, the legal issues involved, and what happens at the hearing.
Installing Fear: A Canadian Legal and Policy Analysis of Using, Developing, and Selling Smartphone Stalkerware Applications
This report provides an in-depth legal and policy analysis of technology-facilitated intimate partner surveillance, especially stalkerware techonology, under Canadian law.
Pathways in a Forest Indigenous Guidance on Prevention-Based Child Welfare
Pathways in a Forest: Indigenous Guidance on Prevention-based Child Welfare centers the voices of 64 caregivers and highlights efforts by Indigenous families, communities, and nations to revitalize Indigenous approaches to child welfare, develop comprehensive community-based supports, and fight for self-determination.
Keeping Aboriginal Kids Safe
This easy-to-understand, illustrated booklet explains the child protection process for Aboriginal children and families, including what you and your community can do if the Ministry of Children and Family Development or a delegated Aboriginal agency removes your child from your home.
The Unfinished Story of Yes
Animated video called The Unfinished Story of Yes explains how activism has shaped Canada’s laws about sexual assault over the years.
Briefing Note on Divorce Act Amendments
BACKGROUNDER/BRIEF
In September 2018, West Coast LEAF submitted a briefing note on Bill C-78 to ensure that proposed changes to the Divorce Act fulfill the stated goal and avoid unintended and harmful consequences.
A Second Chance: A Gladue Rights Story
This graphic novel introduces you to Gladue rights for Aboriginal peoples. Through engaging storytelling and illustrations, A Second Chance tells the story of Myra.
Sponsorship Breakdown
Sponsorship Breakdown is for permanent residents who need help when the person sponsoring them in Canada will no longer support them and they are unable to support themselves.