Hot off the Press: Clear Skies
Co-produced with the Healthy Aboriginal Network (HAN), Clear Skies is an innovative new approach to teaching the public about the law. This comic book uses an engaging story and striking imagery to...
View ArticleHot Off the Press — Leaving Abuse
We’re excited to share our newest graphic novel Leaving Abuse. The story follows Maya, a young woman who has just left her abusive partner with her young children but doesn’t know where to turn....
View ArticleWelcome to MyLawBC!
Over the last year, you may have heard whispers about a new project we’ve been working on called MyLawBC. Today we’re happy to announce that MyLawBC has launched and is now ready to be used! What’s the...
View ArticleClear Skies wins Apex Award!
We’re happy to share that Clear Skies has won an Apex Award! The Apex Awards is a world-wide competition for publication excellence. Clear Skies is a different approach to talking about the law for us....
View ArticleClear Skies in Haida Gwaii
One of the biggest advantages of our community partner program is that we get to hear from people across the province. BC is big and diverse and what works for a city of 100,000 people two hours from...
View ArticleHot off the press – Mothers Leaving Abusive Partners
We’ve partnered with the YWCA Metro Vancouver to produce Mothers Leaving Abusive Partners. Formerly published as Leaving an Abusive Relationship, the booklet has been thoroughly revised, updated, and...
View ArticleHot off the press: Live Safe, End Abuse series
Our 10 fact sheets on abuse and family violence have been thoroughly revised and updated. The printed versions are now packaged together in a folder called Live Safe, End Abuse. The online version...
View ArticleSponsorship Breakdown Update
A change in law means that a section of our booklet Sponsorship Breakdown is no longer accurate. Conditional permanent resident status no longer exists (the Canadian government ended this condition...
View ArticleHow an afternoon with advocates made me understand Luddites
Sometimes we look through old posts and find ones so interesting we want to share them again. This is one of them. It originally ran in ELAN on Oct 21, 2013. Every fall we hold our Provincial Advocates...
View ArticleHot Off the Press – One new and two revised French translation
LSS is committed to providing PLEI publications in our second language for our francophone community here in BC and for all French-speaking newcomers to BC. We’ve just released three new or revised...
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