Let women wear them if they want to, but holy shit requiring them is barbaric.

The Bill was left to die on the order table. It did not pass before our legislature adjourned for the May election.
The Guardian has its facts wrong.
The bill was produced by the Green Party leader, and had the support of the Official Opposition, New Democratic Party.
The Premier, Chistry Clark, who leads a Conservative party that calls itself the BC Liberals, originally stated that such a law was "unnecessary". However, once public opinion demonstrated the bill could win her vote, she fishtailed and supported it. However, the legislature was adjourned before a vote could be held.
So No, BC did not pass a law to ban companies from being able to demand high heels in their dress codes.

Clark also gave lip service to another opposition bill that would have severely restricted corporate donations to political parties, but also let it die on the order paper.

I'm a little surprised the Guardian writers are not better informed.

was as an on-foot courier for the ad department at the Spokesman Review/Spokane Daily Chronicle.
The mandatory dress code for women was wearing a skirt or dress. NEVER pants.
That winter was a historic BITCH. 30 inches of snow and 20 below zero for about a month. My friend, Denise and two other women got together and protested to our supervisor that we were literally FREEZING! There was a discussion with management and they agreed that because of the severe conditions, the dress code would be waived until the temperature reached 32 degrees or more. (But only nice pant suits or slacks allowed).
"OK", we said!. Guess what? The temperature eventually rose, of course, but we NEVER went back to our dresses! (unless we wanted to)
I'm still proud to this day of that action!

I was a cocktail waitress. Wearing red heels was considered part of the 'uniform'. I was hobbling because I was in agony. My feet had cracked open and were bleeding. I took my heels off and put on flats. I was called into the managers office. When I showed him my feet he said " Other girls feet are bleeding too and you don't see them whining about it." Then he and the assistant manager typed up a LIE together and said I was drinking on the job and fired me when I refused to put the heels back on. I refused to sign the paper. They said that's ok we have too many witnesses. Get out you're fired.

Yep over heels

That sounds like a pretty good law to me. Who the hell cares, what someone wears? I don't really get this world.

The fire alarms went off and i had to walk down 17 stories from my workplace. After that keeping a pair of tennis shoes handy seemed like a much better idea. Of course the spindly heels came off about 2 floors down, and I went the rest of the way slipping around on stocking feet.

I've worn flats ever since, other than an occasional dressy dinner occasion.

and sneakers.

I have a Morton's neuroma in between my 3rd and 4th toes and it feels like there is a shard of glass in my foot when I wear shoes that compress my toes together. This was most likely caused by wearing heels in the first place. I can now only wear shoes like Danskos or Ariats with a wide toe box. I couldn't imagine having to be forced to have to wear heels every day.

doctor forbidden ice and roller skates

until my 20s i could sprain an ankle but just looking at it funny.

over the years i have built them up to the point i no longer consider them a liability

to have women wear shoes with reduced stability is just stupid

wonder what insurance companies say about heels...i know women who have hurt themselves wearing heels...
if they make me wear a seat belt surely they can work on something like high heels