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Happy Birthday to Us! LEAF Celebrates 30 Years of Work Toward Equality Rights

April 17, 2015 – The Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) is celebrating its 30th anniversary. LEAF was founded April 17, the day the equality law provisions of the Charter of Rights and...

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Thirty Years Since the Charter’s Equality Provisions and LEAF’s Founding....

Women’s rights activists and advocates worked hard during the pre-Charter constitutional negotiations to gain broad equality rights provisions in the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms. When those...

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Celebrate LEAF’s Work Towards Equality In Our 30th Year

Dear LEAF supporter, Do you appreciate the equality rights that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees to women in Canada? I know that I do, and I want to support the work of organizations that...

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Celebrate Mother’s Day, Celebrate Equality, Support LEAF

Mother’s Day is a day to honour a very important woman in your life. Mother’s Day is also a perfect time to celebrate the rights women and girls have gained and support the work for equality that is...

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Beijing+20 – a gathering of the decades for the 2015 Commission on the Status...

2015 marks the 20th year anniversary of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action: the seminal outcome document of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. The Platform, commonly...

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Media Advisory: Supreme Court of Canada to Rule in Jury Representativeness Case

Ottawa – On Thursday, May 21, the Supreme Court of Canada will render its decision in Kokopenace v. HMTQ. The key issue in the case is the scope of the right to a representative jury under the Canadian...

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Majority Decision Disappointing for Equality Rights in the Criminal Justice...

On Thursday, May 21, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in R. v. Kokopenace. The majority of the Court found that the systematic exclusion of Indigenous on-reserve residents from the...

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Announcement: LEAF Edmonton Annual General Meeting

LEAF EDMONTON ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING  THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2015, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.  The meeting will be held at the home of Patricia Paradis – address will be sent to those who RSVP that they plan to...

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The Supreme Court’s Latest Equality Rights Decision: An Emphasis on...

By Jennifer Koshan and Jonnette Watson Hamilton Case Commented On: Kahkewistahaw First Nation v Taypotat, 2015 SCC 30 (CanLII) The Supreme Court released its decision in Kahkewistahaw First Nation v...

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LEAF Seeks Improved Access to Safe, Legal Abortion for PEI Women

LEAF welcomes the June 2nd announcement by the government of Prince Edward Island that it is “moving forward with its commitment to address barriers to abortion access.” The province announced that it...

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In anticipation of the RCMP releasing a new report, a fact sheet for the...

In anticipation of the RCMP releasing a new report, the LSC provides this fact sheet for the assistance of MMIW advocates: Analyzing the 2014 Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Report, Missing and...

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LEAF Seeks Leave to Intervene in Canada (Minister of Citizenship and...

On June 1, 2015, LEAF filed a motion for leave to intervene in Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Ishaq at the Federal Court of Appeal. Zunera Ishaq has fulfilled all of the...

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SCC denies leave in right to housing case

LEAF is disappointed in the June 25 SCC decision to deny leave to appeal in the Tanudjaja right to housing case. ACTO’s press release is below. For more information on LEAF’s intervention before the...

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LEAF Denied Leave to Intervene in Canada (Minister of Citizenship and...

LEAF is deeply disappointed in a decision by Stratas JA to deny leave to intervene in the Ishaq appeal. Look here for more information on LEAF’s proposed intervention. The court released its decision...

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Legal Strategy Coalition on Violence Against Indigenous Women releases key...

Press release June 29 2015 – The Legal Strategy Coalition on Violence Against Indigenous Women (LSC), a national coalition of advocacy groups, has multiple concerns with the RCMP “Missing and Murdered...

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Save the date: Wednesday October 21, join LEAF for our 30th Anniversary...

LEAF turned 30 this year. Our organization has been working toward equality for women and girls since April 17, 1985, when the equality provisions, s.15 and s.28, were enshrined in the Charter of...

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LEAF Halifax proudly presents the Persons Day Breakfast Gala on October 30, 2015

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LEAF notes the UN Human Rights Committee’s concerns about Canada’s...

On July 23, 2015, the UN Human Rights Committee released its concluding observations in their periodic review of Canada’s human rights record include concerns about “persisting inequalities” in Canada....

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LEAF Edmonton presents the Persons Day Breakfast Gala on November 18, 2016

Join LEAF Edmonton for the Persons Day Breakfast   Click here to download the event poster Guest Speakers: Keynote Speaker: Professor Jennifer Koshan Jennifer Koshan is a Professor in the Faculty of...

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Windsor LEAF presents the Annual Persons Day Discussion Panel

Celebrate Persons Day at Windsor LEAF’s Annual Persons Day Discussion Panel on Thursday October 27, 2016. The event will feature 3 of Windsor’s great legal minds: Justice Renee Pomerance, Justice...

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