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Hot Pink Paper Campaign 2022: Recent Highlights and Next Steps

After months of extensive community input from women, gender-diverse residents, and front-line organizations that serve diverse...

Nightlife Safety in Vancouver

Many have directly witnessed or experienced rampant gender-based violence within the nightlife industry, which often takes the form of sexua

A Case For Equity Mandates

The context: The city of Vancouver is widely recognized as one of the most diverse cities in Canada, yet many communities have begun to...

The 'Alpha Male': Harmful Masculinity within Vancouver Municipal Politics Coverage

When envisioning an ideal leader for their city, voters commonly base their candidate preferences on both the policy positions and lived...

A positive outcome for women in the City of Vancouver

WTC follows Vancouver City Council agendas in order to ensure a gendered intersectional lens is applied to city work as is mandated by...

City of Vancouver Creates a Diversity on Advisory Bodies Policy!

City staff recommends that diversity on City's Advisory Committees better reflect the diversity of the City's residents! This is great...

Next Steps for the Hot Pink Paper Campaign! Let's make Vancouver a women friendly city!

Next step in the new year is to lobby the new Mayor and Council to follow through on their commitments to gender intersectional actions...

Congratulations! 8 Women on Vancouver City Council! But where is the diversity

Photo credit: Daily Hive The 2018 civic election in Vancouver has made local history with women accounting for a vast majority of the...

Launch of the Hot Pink Paper Campaign 2018!

The Hot Pink Paper 2018 Campaign has officially launched today! After hearing from women-serving organizations and diverse...

WTC Wants Municipal Election Candidates to Address Women's Concerns - Forum June 24

We are working on efforts to influence political parties and candidates’ campaigns to address women's concerns and to make cities make...

Vancouver: a city for all women! Vancouver's Women Equity Strategy is unanimously approved!

Vancouver: a city for all women: the Women's Equity Strategy was approved unanimously by city council on Wednesday January 17th! It is...

Hot Pink Paper

WTC created the Hot Pink Paper (HPP) Municipal Campaign (Link to the site on our website) for the 2014 Vancouver election. We are now at...