Addressing the income and pay gap means tackling the conditions that create it, its impacts, and the discrimination people face across diverse identities.
We're building collective power for pay equity and #EconomicJustice. Check out our Income and Pay Gap series to learn more 👇 #EqualPayDay
BC has one of the worst gender pay gaps in Canada (the fourth largest!). But pay differences aren’t the only problem – there’s also a large gap between income and cost of living.
westcoastleaf.org/pay-gap/ #EqualPayDay
Today, April 16, is Equal Pay Day in BC. It marks how much longer into 2026 a racialized woman must work to catch up to what a white man has earned in the previous year.
#EqualPayDay #PayEquity #EconomicJustice
Tomorrow is Equal Pay Day in BC!🚨
Join us for a lunchtime webinar on building collective power for pay equity through an intersectional lens.
April 16
12:30–1:30 PM PT
Zoom. RSVP👇
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West Coast LEAF stands with Indigenous nations and joins legal, labour, enviro, and other community leaders to urge Premier Eby and the BC government to recommit to upholding #IndigenousRights.
BC must move forward on reconciliation – not backwards. www.wcel.org/DeclarationAct
#BCPoli #DRIPA
Don't miss our webinar on Building Collective Power for Pay Equity Through an Intersectional Lens on Thursday, April 16 at 12:30 PM PT!
Featuring speakers from Vancouver Committee for Domestic Workers and Caregivers Rights, @disaballiancebc.bsky.social, and @bcpolicy.bsky.social.
RSVP👇
Throughout the report, community experts call for bold shifts—away from family policing and towards family well-being. These calls for change are powerful invitations for all of us to push for system transformation today. 4/4
Explore the report 👇
#GenderBasedViolence #FamilyPolicing
The Safety Together report sought to understand this intersection in a focused way. Grounded in knowledge shared by lived experts, the report identifies 6 systemic sites where GBV and family policing intersect to increase risks and create harmful impacts for survivors, families, and children. 3/4
We’ve often heard from families and caregivers who are survivors of gender-based violence that the #familypolicing system (also known as child welfare) doesn’t offer safety for them or their children. In fact, GBV is a common basis for a family’s involvement in the family policing system. 2/4
West Coast LEAF is incredibly proud to release our latest report – Safety Together: Addressing gender-based violence and the family policing system. 1/4
Read the report and share it widely!👇
We’ve often heard from families and caregivers who are survivors of gender-based violence that the family policing system (also known as child welfare) doesn’t offer safety for them or their children. In fact, GBV is a common basis for a family’s involvement in the family policing system. 2/4
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West Coast LEAF is proud to pledge to be an Apartheid Free organization. We join dozens of communities and organizations to support freedom, justice, and equality for the Palestinian people and oppose Israeli apartheid.
Learn more: apartheid-free.org
#ApartheidFree #EndIsraeliApartheid
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Equal Pay Day in BC is April 16 📣
Join us for a virtual panel on Equal Pay Day: Building Collective Power for Pay Equity Through an Intersectional Lens
When: April 16, 12:30–1:30 PM PT
Where: Zoom.
Register to get a Zoom link: westcoastleaf.org/event/webina...
Gender equality must not be used as cover for exclusion, fear, or discrimination. West Coast LEAF is proud to support Women for Trans Rights and to stand for a vision of gender justice rooted in solidarity. Join the campaign at www.womenfortransrights.ca
This week, West Coast LEAF is at the Supreme Court of Canada to intervene in a case that could reshape human rights protections across Canada.
The notwithstanding clause threatens hard-won human rights protections for women and people who experience gender discrimination.
More on what's at stake👇
Last chance to enter our Equality Breakfast prize raffle! ⏰
The raffle is open until March 16 at 12 PM. Enter before the deadline to support our work for gender justice!
Buy a raffle ticket: westcoastleaf.org/raffle 🎟️
Prizes include:🎁
- $1,000 Cash Grand Prize
- 1-night stay at Chateau Victoria Hotel & Suites and Butchart Gardens tickets
- 1-night stay at Inn at Laurel Point
1 entry for $50 or 5 entries for $200. Enter now: westcoastleaf.org/raffle
Missed the chance to enter our Equality Breakfast prize raffle? There’s still time!
While the Equality Breakfast has wrapped up, the raffle is open until March 16 at 12 PM. Every entry supports our work advancing gender justice.
Enter now for your chance to win:
Center image is of a ballroom with people seated on round tables. The chairs are red. Gradient bars are above and below the image with text surrounding reading: West Coast LEAF, Equality Breakfast. A huge thank you to everyone who joined us ot celebrate International Women's Day and support our work for gender equality. Thank you!
Missed our 2026 Equality Breakfast? Watch award-winning author Tracey Lindberg’s keynote and check out photos from the event: westcoastleaf.org/event/equali...
Thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate International Women’s Day and come together for gender justice!
#EqualityBreakfast #IWD2
Many thanks once again to all three of our outstanding Visionary partners this year! We're so grateful for your ongoing support, and we look forward to hearing from each of you tomorrow on our Breakfast stage!
Big props to Moore Edgar Lyster LLP for being an Advocate Partner for our 2026 Equality Breakfast and a repeated supporter! We are glad to have you as part of our feminist legal community. #EqualityBreakfast #IWD2026
We are so appreciative to have our community uniting with us to make our feminist social change work possible! Big thanks to our Supporter Partners of our 2026 Equality Breakfast. #EqualityBreakfast #IWD2026
Cassels, Brock & Blackwell LLP
CUPE BC
Dentons Canada LLP
Faculty of Law, University of Vic
Ticket sales close TODAY at NOON for our legendary Equality Breakfast this coming Friday, March 6. Support gender justice and help raise crucial funds for our work while joining us for a morning with Tracey Lindberg! Don't miss out: Get your tickets now by following the first link in our Linktree.
Get your hands on our exclusive and fabulous merch! We've got everything from t-shirts and sweatshirts, hip bags, totes, baby onesies, original art prints and buttons. But merch is only available at the event! So get your ticket before March 2nd at noon! #EqualityBreakfast #IWD2026
Let's give it up for Victory Square Law Office LLP, a 2026 Equality Breakfast Advocate Partner. We are so glad we can count on your support for our feminist social change work. Many thanks! #EqualityBreakfast #IWD2026
Thank you @kwantlenu.bsky.social! We're thrilled you've joined us at the table as an Advocate partner for this year's Equality Breakfast. Your support means so much to us and our work! #EqualityBreakfast #IWD2026
It's the final week to get your tickets for our March 6 Equality Breakfast! Ticket sales close March 2nd at noon! Join us to support gender justice and human rights. Link in our bio or www.westcoastleaf.org/equality-breakfast-2026/
Much love to 2026 Equality Breakfast Advocate Partner Ratcliff LLP! Thanks for once again supporting out efforts for feminist social change! #EqualityBreakfast #IWD2026
A huge thank you to TPH Charitable for being our Print Partner for the 2026 Equality Breakfast. Your generosity and expertise in crafting our event materials helps us amplify the message of equality and justice. We’re so grateful for your continued support in making this event a success! #EqualityB
Kudos to the Canadian Bar Association, BC Branch! They've been a longtime Advocate Partner for the Equality Breakfast and we're excited to welcome them again in 2026. #EqualityBreakfast #IWD2026