February 2020

Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume Eighty-Eight

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays, we look at three cases of stupidity. First, the stupidest place to hide your drugs when you’re driving. Then, the stupidest way to achieve instant internet fame. Finally, the stupidest way to end a relationship.

If you want to learn more about how to do any of these things the completely wrong way, follow the jump and check out this week’s weirdest and wackiest legal cases from around the globe. …

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It’s Eating Disorder Awareness Week… and I am coming out

It’s Eating Disorder Awareness Week… and I am coming out

Writing this post is one of the hardest things I have done in recent memory. But it’s also one of the most freeing.

I spent almost fifteen years of my life wrestling with anorexia nervosa. This month marks seven years from when I finally entered my journey with recovery.

I was inspired last year by Bowinn Ma and her brave decision to come out as a person who has struggled with an eating disorder. To see someone so successful and whom I admire reveal that she has struggled from the same life-consuming disease. Then, later last year when Supreme Court of Canada Justice Gascon retired early, and became an outspoken advocate for lawyers’ mental health, I knew I had to share my story.

So to begin, I want to thank Bowinn Ma and Justice Gascon for having the courage to come out and share what it’s like to struggle with a mental illness.

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Parole Ineligibility: Cases That Should Have Gone to the Supreme Court of Canada, But Didn’t!

Welcome to Cases That Should Have Gone to the Supreme Court of Canada, But Didn’t! This week, lawyer Kyla Lee discusses parole ineligibility.

Acumen Law Corporation lawyer Kyla Lee gives her take on a made-in-Canada court case each week and discusses why these cases should have been heard by Canada’s highest court: the Supreme Court of Canada.

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Another Distracted Driving Case – This One Leading to a Dangerous Driving Conviction

In a case out of Saanich, British Columbia has seen its first conviction for dangerous driving arising out of a case involving distracted driving.

The driver in the case is alleged to have been speeding, more than twice the speed limit, passing vehicles illegally, and tailgating. In an unusual twist, police also sought a production order to obtain cell phone records for the driver, in order to prove that she was also actively texting while driving.

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