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    Your Rights: Paid Sick Leave
    Isabelle Dehler-Hyde
    • Mar 18
    • 3 min

    Your Rights: Paid Sick Leave

    By Isabelle Dehler-Hyde, TAPS Employment Standards Legal Advocate In November 2021, the BC Government introduced mandatory employer-paid...
    24 views
    Disaster Preparedness for Tenants
    Leila Geggie Hurst
    • Mar 18
    • 2 min

    Disaster Preparedness for Tenants

    By Leila Geggie Hurst, TAPS Staff Lawyer If you’re a tenant, you may have read news stories about tenants displaced by fire or floods,...
    37 views
    Running to Stay Behind
    Emily Rogers
    • Apr 13, 2021
    • 3 min

    Running to Stay Behind

    For most people, housing costs are their most significant expense. This problem could be largely addressed with one policy: vacancy control
    221 views
    A Letter from Meegan: Decampment
    tapsbc
    • Apr 13, 2021
    • 2 min

    A Letter from Meegan: Decampment

    By: Bruce Livingstone Fluorescent orange and gunflint blue are the fashion forward statement this season in Meegan aka Beacon Hill Park....
    147 views
    Laid-off Employees' Rights in the Time of COVID
    Isabelle Dehler-Hyde
    • Nov 17, 2020
    • 4 min

    Laid-off Employees' Rights in the Time of COVID

    By Izzy Dehler-Hyde Seven months since the Government of BC ordered shutdowns of many industries and businesses to slow down the spread...
    143 views
    Working in the Time of COVID-19
    TAPS Guest Author
    • Nov 17, 2020
    • 3 min

    Working in the Time of COVID-19

    By Hilary Marks In early 2020 I was working full time in a transitional shelter. Life was pretty normal and structured. All that changed...
    89 views
    Saying Goodbye to Stephen Portman
    TAPS Staff
    • Oct 26, 2020
    • 2 min

    Saying Goodbye to Stephen Portman

    With a heavy heart and a lot of gratitude we say goodbye to Stephen Portman as a member of TAPS’ team.
    193 views
    Pandemic Pay Must Stay
    Thea McDonagh
    • Oct 26, 2020
    • 3 min

    Pandemic Pay Must Stay

    March 2020 marked the one-year anniversary of “TogetherBC”, BC’s first poverty reduction plan. The anniversary coincided with the escalation
    133 views
    Bailiff at the Door
    Hannah Mang-Wooley
    • Sep 10, 2020
    • 6 min

    Bailiff at the Door

    The proper procedure for evicting someone is clear, but is not always understood or respected by landlords.
    7,012 views

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