November 2023

Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 271

From the bizarre to the serendipitous, the world often surprises us with stories of lost items and unexpected occurrences. This week, we delve into three such tales, each highlighting the peculiar nature of loss and discovery. From lost skulls, expensive tools floating away and absent people, these stories capture the essence of how sometimes what is lost can lead to extraordinary outcomes or unveil hidden truths.

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Kyla on Global News: B.C. housing minister tells people not to help ‘desperate scammers’ with Airbnb fraud

British Columbia’s minister of housing says he’s shocked and frustrated by an attempt to recruit people to take part in what he calls a fraud to get around new rules about short-term rentals.

Ravi Kahlon shared a screenshot on social media showing a Vancouver-based rental management company offering $500 to people willing to change the address on their driver’s licence to match an address it selects, then apply for an Airbnb approval.

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Kyla on PWD Allies podcast: Disability and driving under the influence

On today’s show Brent has Vancouver criminal lawyer Kyla Lee to talk about disability and driving under the influence. PWD + DUI: Failure to accommodate.

“Under the criminal code of Canada, the criminal code says you cannot drive or operate a vehicle if your ability to do so is impaired by a drug. And so for people who take a medication for a disability, for a medical condition, their ability to operate the vehicle isn’t impaired by the drug… But the law doesn’t have a mechanism to sort out those cases.”

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Kyla on CBC’s On The Coast’s Soapbox Social panel: How a social media ‘like’ cost the B.C. Greens their deputy leader

On The Coast’s Soapbox Social panel, Kyla Lee and Mo Amir, react to Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi stepping down as the B.C. Greens’ deputy leader after liking a post that compared Dr. Bonnie Henry to Josef Mengele, Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke’s first year, and the quickly sold-out Stanley Park train tickets.

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Kyla on Radio NL News Mornings with Jeff & Bill: Drug users have legal right to use anywhere, says B.C. harm reduction nurses’ lawsuit

“When it’s healthcare practitioners saying ‘people are going to die, we feel a moral responsibility to challenge this law because of our profession’, I think that gets a lot more people listening.”

“They’re not challenging entirely any prohibition on public consumption. They are agreeing with the fact that there should be a prohibition of consumption in skateparks and children’s parks and school yards. So they’re limiting the nature of their challenge in such a way that it actually protects people from saying ‘well children are going to be exposed to drug use by a successful challenge of this law”…

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Kyla on CBC’s On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Soapbox Social: How a social media ‘like’ cost the B.C. Greens their deputy leader

Kyla Lee, a Vancouver criminal lawyer for Acumen Law Corporation, and Mo Amir, host of the podcast This is VANCOLOUR, react to Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi stepping down as the B.C. Greens’ deputy leader after liking a post that compared Dr. Bonnie Henry to Josef Mengele, Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke’s first year, and the quickly sold-out Stanley Park train tickets.

“Now that we know that everything you do as a politician, every second of every day is going to be scrutinized, and because we have a 24 hour cycle of politicians attacking other politicians, you cannot like, you cannot follow, you cannot retweet, you cannot comment until you’re fully sure that you’ve read everything any maybe if you’re not sure what you’re about to say, run it by your comms people…”

Listen here.

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 270

Diamond, Silver and Gold

The heist, jewel theft, stealing gold or artifacts, sneaking off with the big diamond – these are a certain class of crime that holds some unusual place in our collective consciousness. We often think of it as something for fiction. Indeed, there are countless films depicting a heist of some sort. When we watch these films, we are often conflicted. A common structure or theme is that the focus is on the thief or thieves as the protagonists.

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Civil Forfeiture: 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 civil forfeiture… 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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