Podcast: Pivot lawyer on unhoused people's Charter rights (E06: Oct 24, 2026)

Host: David P. Ball

This provincial election day, we hear from Laura Macintyre, a staff lawyer and Homes for All campaigner with Pivot Legal Society in Vancouver.

We discuss the organization's court battles for the Charter rights of unhoused people facing displacement and the confiscation of their valued belongings — after an investigation by De Facto journalists Brishti Basu and Mike Graeme explored the devastating impacts of increasingly aggressive bylaw enforcement.

REFERENCES:

• Pivot Legal Society Stop the Sweeps report
• Victoria bylaw officers trashed newly donated tents within days — contrary to city claims
• As election cycle spotlights homeless crisis, bylaw seizures ‘devastating’ for Victoria’s unhoused

CREDITS:

• Theme music courtesy of Devours (November, Homecoming Queen, and 10 Things I Crave About You) with permission
• Originally aired on Vancouver Co-operative Radio CFRO 100.5FM
• Broadcast from the unceded Coast Salish territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations