We are pleased to announce the release of the SMA Listening & Demographic Survey Results 2023 report. The report is a summary of the responses received from 51 members across the province in 17 diverse locations, providing a snapshot of the needs and wishes of our diverse membership of lone-mother and caregivers and determining our priorities for 2023 with their input.

VICTORIA, BC; unceded territories  - BC Budget 2023 has made commendable investments in affordability and families, while falling short in the area of poverty reduction. The Single Mothers’ Alliance (SMA) welcomes the 10% increase to the BC Family Benefit, an up to $500 annual supplement for single parents, the increased BC Climate Action Tax Credit with annual raises, a significant investment in school food, and a raise in the shelter rate for those accessing income and disability assistance.

For Immediate Release

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish homelands—Today, West Coast LEAF is in court to defend the public interest standing of Single Mothers’ Alliance (SMA) in their constitutional challenge to BC’s family law legal aid regime.

Mai Eaglespeaker's Speech at Why Your Vote Counts: Women's Equality & BC's Provincial Election on April 1st, 2017, published in the Georgia Straight online.

Kendra Milne, keynote speaker at Why Your Vote Counts: Women's Equality & BC's Provincial Election on April 1st, 2017, sister speech framing Mai's lived experience with facts and info, published in the Georgia Straight online. 

SMA Co-Founder represents BC CEDAW Group at UN In Geneva for women's rights review of Canada in October 2016, published in Metro News 

Vancouver Sun article interview with the Single Mothers' Alliance

CBC BC article on SMA, child poverty

CBC Early Edition, SMA, with Rick Cluff

Will the conversation actually start

Constituents in Maple-Ridge Pitt Meadows push for Liberal clawback discussion

Liberal convention stirrings, May 26, 2014

Politics Respun: 'BC's Child Support Clawback Hurts Kids'

The Tyee: ‘With Disability Clawbacks, “It’s panic all the time’ 

BC's poorest family group

The Tyee: Single Mothers' Alliance Co-Founder Frances Stone. November 26, 2014

The Tyee: 'BC single moms the poorest of them all'

The Georgia Straight: 'B.C. child-care advocates say sector is in crisis'

The Georgia Straight: 'Rita Chudnovsky: Plan for $10-a-day childcare striking a chord in B.C.'