Tag: Housing
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Vancouver’s Pivot Legal Society 3rd blog post: The Mega Event in an Era of Extreme Heat and Climatic Crisis
*republished with permission from Pivot Legal Society On Tuesday June 24, 2026, as Canada and Switzerland faced off at BC Place, the outdoor temperature in Vancouver reached 27.7°C. It was the warmest June 24 in Vancouver in more than a century. That same day, a total of 21 communities across British Columbia reached or surpassed all-time daily…
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Vancouver’s Pivot Legal Society 2nd blog post: What has FIFA’s Human Rights Framework Amounted to? – Part 2
-by Pivot Legal Society in Vancouver, BC; reposted with permission – access original here Just two weeks ahead of the first 2026 World Cup match, Vancouver released its final FIFA Human Rights Action Plan. The Plan, dated May 25, 2026, updated a February draft that Pivot and a coalition of allied organizations had heavily criticized. Though the…