Most landlords and tenants rarely have disputes.

For the small minority who do – we’re taking action.

Today, I tabled legislation that will protect tenants from unfair evictions, promote better compliance, and improve British Columbia's rental system for everyone.

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If you have experience - and/or views - about courts and technology, I strongly encourage you to take 2 minutes to provide your input through this survey. Our collective input could make a real difference to where dollars are spent and processes are changed!

Spring is a time for new hope and energy, and so it is with our 4th cohort of #articling clinicians who started their service semester this month. 🌷 🌼

We begin our latest round of clinician #profiles with Dunni Awe (she/her). 1/4

BC's new family law legal aid funding resolves long-standing Charter challenge. New clinic will focus on intimate partner incidents.

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Good reform. This will prevent council and parks board from deflecting accountability to the other.

Move to a ward system next, please.

Even renters making $100,000 are being evicted in Vancouver, data shows nationalpost.com/business/real-…

AEDs save lives (I know from ultimate experience) and there isn’t enough of them available in public places.

If you have the chance, lobby your local politician to place more AEDs in more places where they can save more people like Colin. cbc.ca/news/canada/ne…

I’ve called Lennoxville and Otterburn Park home at different times in my life. Harmonious places where people found community regardless of their mother tongue.

Makes me sad that Anglos—generational Quebecers—are being othered for politics rooted in myth. Live and let be, man.

#Profile  of an Everyone Legal Clinic 2023/24  #articling  clinician: William O'Hanley (he/him)

William is a Vancouver-based articling clinician who originally hails from Prince Edward Island. 1/4

Jamie Maclaren (he/him) shares stories from the beneficiaries of scholarships funded by the Warrior Project and how they are paying it forward.

Read about their extraordinary accomplishments in BarTalk: bit.ly/3SaeXBi

#Profile  of an Everyone Legal Clinic 2023/24  #articling  clinician: Maryam Kandi (she/her)

Maryam's journey to legal practice began with her earning a pre-law bachelor's degree in accounting, followed by an LLB and then an LLM (International Law) in 2018. 1/5

#Profile  of an Everyone Legal Clinic 2023/24  #articling  clinician: Gurtej Sandhu (he/him)

Gurtej obtained his LLB and BEng in Information Technology in India, where he practiced law for four years before moving to Canada. 1/5

Hold on to your hats everyone, here comes our 3rd cohort of articling clinicians! Here's our first clinician who's open for service in November...

#Profile  of an Everyone Legal Clinic 2023/24  #articling  clinician: 
Valentina Hernandez Paternina (she/her) 1/6

This is the harm of the normalization of preemptive s33 notwithstanding clause use. No need to justify. No dialogue with Courts. No emergency.

Just the overriding of rights when convenient for the government of the day.

Join us for this free webinar on Oct. 26th 12:30pm PST / 3:30pm EST, featuring the BC Provincial Court's Hon. Chief Judge Gillespie, Jamie Maclaren (he/him) & @AthenaLaw604
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★ True Access to Justice Means Effective and Consistent Access to Services: The search for legal information and assistance

The current design of our legal services delivery system makes Ontario’s access to justice crisis worse. Far too many Ontarians… bit.ly/46Jpszt

Timely piece on the inefficacies of regulatory managerialism as BC government gets set to introduce a more human-centred single regulator of legal professions Niki Sharma (she/her)

We reached a milestone today! One of our first alumni, Carolyn Belleau, returned to present on ' #Truth and #Reconciliation : Residential Tenancy and the #Indigenous Client' to our third cohort of #articling clinicians.

Carolyn says she's “living the ELC dream”. 🧡 🙌

Orgs like Access Pro Bono BC benefit from enormous privilege, and must do more to promote #Truth and #Reconciliation .

Read about how Everyone Legal Clinic is trying do its part by educating and empowering a new generation of #Indigenous lawyers:

cbabc.org/BarTalk/Articl…

Worth noting this is only $2 less than what BC lawyers must contribute to *all* lawyer-driven access to justice initiatives!