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People’s Law School is hosting a free webinar next week on privacy rights in BC. The webinar will cover privacy rights in all kinds of situations, including background checks by employers, what types...
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February 4 to 10 marks Access to Justice (A2J) week in BC in 2023. This week is an opportunity to learn more about and participate in access to justice work being done around the province. Access...
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Happy 2023! We wanted to start off the new year by taking a moment to look back at some of our work in 2022. 2022 saw another grant cycle and the release of our new Law Books for Kids list, a lis...
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Today, we wanted to highlight another one of BC’s helpful PLEI (public legal education information) organizations: Justice Education Society (JES). The Justice Education Society originally began...
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Transgender Awareness Week takes place Nov 13-18 with the goal of increasing visibility and awareness of the transgender community. To commemorate this week, we wanted to point out some important reso...
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