Legal Services

Provides free and confidential service to people with legal poverty related issues including applying for provincial and federal benefits, appealing denials, tenancy issues, debt and collections, employment problems, human rights, and more. Also offers help for people struggling with contacting government workers on the phone, and help with forms.

The Poverty and Housing Programs at Sacred Wolf Friendship Centre offer housing tenancy support and official document forms support (including birth certificates and Status Cards) to the communities of the Mt. Waddington District, especially to Indigenous people experiencing professional barriers.

Legal advocates at Elizabeth Fry’s Poverty Law Clinic in New Westminster help women dealing with rental disputes, evictions, debt collection, bankruptcy, and mental health and employment standards. You can also get help accessing income programs.

Advocacy and poverty law services for Gitxsan, Wet’suwet’en, and non-Indigenous clients on issues including housing, employment standards, human rights, Ombudsperson complaints, ICBC, and social assistance and disability issues.

Provides legal information and workshops offering legal education, information, and resources. Encourages individuals to solve their personal problems with the available but limited resources on Haida Gwaii, and ensures low-income people get access to legal information, legal advice, and legal representation.

Provides legal assistance, advice, and representation to low-income and vulnerable people in the Downtown Eastside. The advocates provide a broad spectrum of legal advocacy services but mainly focus on tenancy and social assistance issues.

Legal advocate for people facing poverty law issues. They provide information, advocacy, and referrals on issues including income security, housing, debts and collections, and family law information and referrals. The advocate is not a lawyer and can’t give legal advice.

Free legal advice and representation to low-income people in the Kamloops and Kelowna area. They help with income assistance, limited family law, disability, tenancy, employment insurance, employment standards, Indigenous legal issues, human rights, small claims, CRT matters, judicial reviews, and other areas not covered by legal aid.

Provides basic information on poverty law and policy, and on potential next steps, so that people can make an informed choice when they face a problem. Issues covered include welfare, tenant information, EI, Canada Pension Plan disability, and more. They offer referrals for other issues. Please note, they don't give legal advice.

The office’s information and referral specialists can help you find programs and services for seniors.