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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 387

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Garbage Cans, Gulf States, and the Art of the Great Escape

Justice is blind. Or so we are told. But it’s also surprisingly good at sniffing people out of trash cans. Welcome back to Weird and Wacky Wednesdays. This week’s edition is dedicated to those bold and frankly delusional souls who looked the long arm of the law in the eye and said, “No thank you, I’ll be leaving now.”

Spoiler: they mostly didn’t get far.

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When “Interference” Turns on Someone Else’s Irritation: The Cautionary Tale in R. v. Leippi

In R. v. Leippi, 2026 BCPC 26, the BC Provincial Court convicted a recreational drone operator of “interfering with fire control” under the Wildfire Act.

The case arose from the 2023 Kelowna wildfire. Mr. Leippi was operating a small drone from a boat on Okanagan Lake to capture footage of fire damage. A helicopter pilot who was bucketing water for wildfire suppression noticed the drone, became irritated by its presence, and briefly attempted to knock it out of the air with water before moving on. Conservation officers saw this and then seized the drone and charged Mr. Leippi.

At trial, the only question was whether Mr. Leippi’s operation of the drone “interfered” with fire control. The court concluded that it did.

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Episode 441: Supreme Court Right to Silence Case & AI Privacy Concerns

A new episode of Driving Law is now available.

This week, Kyla discusses appearing before the Supreme Court of Canada on behalf of Women in Canadian Criminal Defence in a case about compelled accident statements and the right to silence. The episode also examines privacy law, AI facial recognition, and the risks of expanding surveillance technology.

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 386

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Lawyer criminals rather than criminal lawyers

Recently for Weird and Wacky Wednesdays, I covered some legal stories where police officers did some horrible things. Of course just because you’re a police officer, that does not make you moral, honest or ethical or not a criminal. Same goes for lawyers. Both lawyers and police officers have higher ethical standards to maintain. Some lawyers and some police officers fall far below those standards and go further, committing crimes. This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays, we are going to look at some fairly notorious cases where the lawyers were not just unethical but criminal. 

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Episode 440: Nunavut Challenge, Impaired Driving Charter Breaches & Paralegals in Traffic Court

This week, we examine a constitutional challenge out of Nunavut involving mandatory driving prohibitions, break down a significant impaired driving Charter ruling in British Columbia, and discuss proposed changes that could allow paralegals to handle serious driving offences. Plus, Florida earns Ridiculous Driver of the Week.

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Episode 439: Police Corruption, Cell Phone Tickets, and Why the Rule of Law Still Matters

In this episode of Driving Law, Kyla Lee and Paul Doroshenko examine a major Toronto police corruption scandal, a new BC Court of Appeal ruling on cellphone use while driving, and what both reveal about accountability, discretion, and the rule of law in Canada.

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Richmond Slammed by Privacy Commissioner for Unauthorized Public Surveillance

A recent investigation by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia has resulted in a significant ruling against the City of Richmond. Specifically, the ruling restricts and ends its use of high-definition surveillance technology.

The city had set up a test of a “public safety” camera system, located at the intersection of Minoru Boulevard and Granville Avenue. The cameras gathered ultra-high-definition video footage of anyone at the intersection, including people, vehicles, and license plates. The cameras were capturing distinguishable images of faces and licence plates, and ended up recording the movements of tens of thousands of people during the trial.

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 385

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Creeped out by Men, Police Edition

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays, I’m skipping the tales of bizarre bylaws and courtroom antics. We’re going to look at three recent police misconduct cases in Canada with male police officers. You may ask yourself, would you rather spend a night alone in the woods with a random bear or a random police officer? 

I’m struggling. The weather is lovely in Vancouver, sunny and beautiful, and you like to think that the world is in good shape. Then you start thinking about what’s going on. The release of the files has caused me once again to think about trust. Who can you trust? What are their motivations? It’s a horrible reminder that you simply can’t trust men in many circumstances. 

You’ll recall about two years ago, there was a TikTok that posed the question to women whether they would prefer to be alone in the woods with a random man or a random bear. It struck a nerve with many of us. The discussion revealed some fundamental truths and fundamental concerns. 

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Episode 438: Blinding Headlights, Parking Tickets, and Impaired Driving Myths

This week on Driving Law, Kyla Lee and Paul Doroshenko unpack a busy slate of driving law issues, from dangerously bright headlights to parking tickets, impaired driving policy, and public misconceptions about enforcement.

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 384

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: The Naked Truth About DUIs

Occasionally, the police pull people over who are naked. It happens in Canada. It happens in the United States. Sometimes it happens to our clients. Most of the time, it ends up being a DUI investigation. Often, there is body cam footage and complicating factors due to the lack of clothing. 

Of course we are in Canada, so we do not technically use the term “DUI.” Here, it is “Impaired Driving.” But for today we’re going to stick with “Naked DUI” Because these weird and wacky DUI cases all come from the States. 

It is worth noting that this is not really a winter phenomenon. Naked impaired driving tends to be a summer activity. Warm weather parties, alcohol, and poor decisions seem to come together when the warm weather hits. January is gloomy. February is worse. So somehow it seemed like a good time to think about summer, sunshine, and the naked truth about DUIs. 

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