Kyla Lee

BC’s First-Ever “Slow Down, Move Over” Month: Why Tickets Are Coming

For the first time in BC history, the month of April has been dedicated province-wide to a single traffic enforcement theme: Slow Down, Move Over. Every major police agency in the province, led by BC Highway Patrol, is using April 2026 to focus enforcement attention on drivers who fail to slow down and move away from emergency vehicles, tow trucks, construction crews, and maintenance workers stopped on the side of the road.

The rule at the centre of the campaign is known as the 70/40 rule. It’s been on the books for years, but most BC drivers don’t know it by name and many don’t know it exists. That is, until they get a ticket. That gap in public awareness is precisely why BC Highway Patrol has launched a dedicated enforcement month.

Here’s what the 70/40 rule actually requires, what a ticket costs, and what to do if you receive one.

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Episode 447: Disclosure and Charter Rights Still Matter in Impaired Driving Cases

This week, we look at recent cases reinforcing that disclosure obligations and Charter rights remain critical in impaired driving prosecutions.

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 393

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Updates in the world of legal advertising

This week for Weird and Wacky Wednesday, we are back to considering legal advertising. There are significant rules around legal advertising. If you go back fifty years, legal advertising was more or less forbidden, but because of court challenges, lawyers can now advertise. There are very specific rules and of course lawyers are great at finding loopholes. Constraint can provide the soil for significant creativity. The creativity of lawyers makes legal advertising always an interesting subject.

Like realtors, lawyers often end up on billboards or have their image plastered on the back of a bus. For years my colleague, Paul Doroshenko, was pictured on billboards around BC. A few years back I had my image on the back of buses in the Lower Mainland and on posters in bus shelters. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Drivers got to look at my face while being stuck in traffic. Every so often, someone tries something slightly different and it turns into a fight.

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The Law Does not Give Credit for Bail Conditions Affecting Your Ability to Drive

If you practice criminal law in Canada, you’ve likely relied on the idea that fairness is a two-way street. If a client spends months on strict bail conditions, effectively serving some or all of their punishment before they’ve even been convicted, a judge should be able to account for that at sentencing, right?

Wrong.

The recent decision in R. v. Reid 2026 ONSC 1342 has officially confirmed that when it comes to driving prohibitions, fairness is no longer part of the equation.

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 392

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: The Bending, and Squeezing, Flexibility Edition

Welcome back to Weird and Wacky Wednesdays, where the justice system hands us material so good we couldn’t make it up if we tried. This week the universe chose a theme entirely on its own: bending. Whether you’re bending the rules, bending over backward, or bending your handcuffed body through a half-open car window, this week in law had it all.

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5 Things You Need to Know About Driving Prohibitions in BC

A driving prohibition in British Columbia can upend your life overnight including your job, your family, your independence. I defend all types of driving prohibitions in British Columbia. Whether it arrived at the roadside or in the mail, here is what you need to know right now about driving prohibitions in BC.

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No Mercy March: What to Know If You Got an “Electronic Device” Ticket This Month

If you got pulled over this month for using your phone while driving, you are not alone. March is Distracted Driving Awareness and Enforcement Month in BC, and police agencies across the province are not treating it as a formality. This year’s enforcement has been coordinated, aggressive, and province-wide.

Here is what you need to know.

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 391

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: The “Special Delivery” Edition

Welcome to another instalment of Weird and Wacky Wednesdays. In the legal world, we often talk about the “chain of custody” for evidence. Usually, that involves police carefully bagging items at a crime scene. This week, however, we have one defendant who skipped the middleman, bringing the evidence directly to the station. Then we have the weird corn hole guy case and a case where the officer hitched a ride on the hood of a stranger’s car.

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Canada’s New Surveillance Bill and What it Means for Your Privacy

A new federal bill introduced in Parliament on March 12, 2026 significantly expands the power of police and intelligence agencies to access your personal digital information. And often without the safeguards Canadians have long relied on.

Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, 2026, is presented as a modernization of existing law. But a closer look reveals provisions that should concern anyone who values privacy in the digital age.

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Episode 445: Supreme Court Expands Police Power to Enter Private Property

This week, we discuss a major Supreme Court of Canada decision addressing whether police can enter private property to investigate suspected impaired driving.

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