Our Soapbox Social panel, podcast host Mo Amir and Vancouver criminal lawyer Kyla Lee, mark July 4 with a discussion about Canadians’ relationship with the United States, why electoral reform is being raised while Justin Trudeau’s Liberal leadership is being challenged, and Playland’s new ThunderVolt roller coaster.
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Police are seeing more DUI’s given out for people who were driving while under the influence of marijuana…
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During the first phase of a hit-and-run sentencing hearing in provincial court, a B.C. Crown prosecutor suggested impaired drivers have a “strategic incentive” to flee the scene of collisions involving injury or death in our province.
Marcel Genaille’s vehicle was captured on security video speeding and changing lanes before he rear-ended a motorcyclist in a fatal June 19, 2021, collision in Burnaby.
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Welcome to another edition of Weird and Wacky Wednesdays, where we often delve into the bizarre and hilarious ways people try to trick or misuse the police, only to have their schemes backfire spectacularly. Our stories this week are sure to leave you shaking your head and perhaps even laughing out loud.
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“In the context of ever-increasing police budgets and weak oversight agencies, the public should be very alarmed about the further erosion of our civil liberties and human rights through the passage of C-70,” warns Meghan McDermott, policy director of the BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA).
“The rapid enactment of these new laws without any kind of scrutiny is devastating for social movements in BC and across Canada,” she said in an exclusive interview last week.
The Countering Foreign Interference Act (Bill C-70) received royal assent on June 20 after being rushed through the House of Commons and then stampeded through the Senate in three days. Now that it is the law of the land, the government must bring down specific regulations and appoint a Foreign Influence Transparency Commissioner.
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In a first-of-its-kind case, a B.C. tribunal has ruled on a dispute involving the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, awarding damages and issuing orders that the photos be destroyed and taken offline.
The province introduced the Intimate Images Protection Act earlier this year giving the Civil Resolution Tribunal the jurisdiction to address these types of claims to provide an alternative to the more difficult, lengthy and potentially costly options of trying to pursue redress through criminal or civil court.
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