Our panelists Kyla Lee, a Vancouver criminal lawyer for Acumen Law Corporation, and Mo Amir, host of the podcast This is VANCOLOUR, discuss Chrystia Freeland saying Canada is not broken, the BC Conservatives thoughts on climate action and the mayor’s obsession with The Rolling Stones.
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At an early age, Kyla Lee knew she wanted to be a lawyer one day.
Lee remembers stressing about her grades while in elementary school and how that could impact her future law career.
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A traffic stop in Chilliwack, B.C., earlier this month is garnering attention after it was uploaded online.
The driver can be heard saying in the video that his rights are being violated.
In the video, he calls himself a sovereign citizen, which is a group of people who believe they are immune to the government’s law and order.
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This week’s collection of peculiar tales takes us into the world of slumber, but not the kind you’d expect. Each story unfolds a scenario where sleep, or the lack thereof, leads to unexpected and bizarre situations. From a burglar’s unintended nap during a heist, not being able to get a good nights sleep, to competitors in a contest who turn lying down into an endurance sport, these narratives reveal the quirky ways sleep (or its semblance) can turn everyday occurrences into extraordinary events. Let’s dive into these unusual tales of rest and relaxation gone awry.
…Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 272 Read More »
A very interesting study was recently published that can help inform government and policy-makers on how to best prevent impaired driving.
…Impaired Driving Motives Read More »
“…Manslaughter as a charge is a form of homicide that occurs without intent… So the real question is when this hockey player’s skate made contact with the other player, did he intend to hit him with his skate, and did he intend to hit him in the neck?”
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Welcome to Cases That Should Have Gone to the Supreme Court of Canada, But Didn’t! This week, lawyer Kyla Lee discusses pat-down searches… 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.
On this special liability episode Kyla and Paul look at 2 liability cases with unusual outcomes. They also remind us that governments can’t legislate themselves out of responsibility. To put us in the Christmas mood, listen to our special outro song!
Driving Law Podcast Episode 316: Looking at Liability Read More »
Our panelists Kyla Lee, a Vancouver criminal lawyer for Acumen Law Corporation, and Mo Amir, host of the podcast This is VANCOLOUR, discuss Justin Trudeau coming face to face with protestors in a Vancouver restaurant, other ways to spend half a million dollars instead of encampment removals and forfeiting holiday traditions because of the high cost of living.
“When you only have one voice making all of the decisions about how a transition’s going to take place and that one voice somebody who comes from policing and from police culture, the concern you get is that all the decisions about how the implementation is going to roll out, how staffing is going to go, what police are going to be responsible for in the community and what they’re going to prioritize and not prioritize is going to be make from a very pro-police policing lens.”
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“When we think of civil disobedience in the protest context, we have to consider the type of offence that’s being committed. And anything that involves violence against another person or threats of violence, would very clearly fall outside the scope of what would be protected under the charter right to protest.”
This is VANCOLOUR host Mo Amir sits down with Acumen Law’s Kyla Lee to discuss the legal status of magic mushroom (psilocybin) dispensaries throughout the City of Vancouver.
“It’s a weird situation be cause cannabis is legal. We think about plants and that being legal. And then hard drugs are decriminalized but you have these ones in the middle that don’t have generally speaking addictive properties that don’t have the same crime culture associated to them… but those are still illegal and not decriminalized.”
…Kyla’s Court: Are magic mushrooms legal in Vancouver?Read More »
Kyla’s Court: Are magic mushrooms legal in Vancouver? Read More »
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