Legal Resources

A 57-page booklet written for permanent residents who need help when the person sponsoring them in Canada is no longer supporting them. Explains what happens when a sponsorship breaks down, and how to apply for welfare.

This fact sheet provides you with information about your privacy rights in the workplace with regard to video and audio surveillance and the things you can do if you believe that your employer has breached them.

Explains MAiD and who is eligible, who can provide MAiD, what happens if you are mentally incapable or if you cannot physically sign, who can witness a MAiD request, the cost, where you get forms, what to do if you are refused, if you can refuse health care, if you have to request MAiD at end-of-life, and resources from Nidus.

What do you do if you feel you’re being overlooked for employment because of your disability? What if your parenting skills are questioned because of your lack of mobility? This booklet is designed to answer these questions and more, and support those with disabilities to live a Life Without Limits.

This guide helps employees to organize unions.

An online practice test for Canadian citizenship. Has multiple choice questions from the book on which the test is based.

In cooperation with BC Association of People on Methadone, Pivot has produced 15,000 methadone patient’s rights cards. Faced with systemic abuse and discrimination from unethical physicians, pharmacists, and others, methadone patients across the province are standing up for their rights.

A guide for people attending Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Actions so that they may be better informed when interfacing with law enforcement. This guide contains legal information on people’s rights at protests, the law of injunctions, and rights upon arrest and detention.

A guide on basic rights designed for people who rely on public space and regularly interact with law enforcement figures, including police, bylaw officers, and private security guards because of their living conditions.

What you need to know before you call 911 at the scene of an overdose. Not everyone will be safe from arrest when and if police attend.