Your Rights: Paid Sick Leave
By Isabelle Dehler-Hyde, TAPS Employment Standards Legal Advocate In November 2021, the BC Government introduced mandatory employer-paid...
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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,...
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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
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- 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....
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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
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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.
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