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This week’s episode of Cases That Should Have Gone to the Supreme Court of Canada, But Didn’t deals with the principle against self-incrimination. The case at issue involved the police seeking a court order for the swipe pattern to unlock a smart phone. Watch the video to learn more!

The latest episode of Driving Law with Kyla Lee is live for your enjoyment on iTunes or SoundCloud. This week, I speak with an American traffic and driving lawyer, Joe McGrath about how impaired driving trials are prosecuted in the state of Virginia. Joe has been practicing for a long time, and he discusses the changes he has seen in impaired driving laws and whether any of them have led to a positive public effect.

Elsewhere in the episode, co-host Paul Doroshenko and I talk about dangerous driving charges and our experience in the lab in Texas, learning the science behind drug analysis.

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One of the main accusations my fellow impaired driving lawyers and I receive is that we keep drunk drivers on the roads and that somehow the justice system would be better off if we didn’t exist.

Every now and again, something comes along that reminds us why we do what we do –  why we stand up for people facing drink driving charges. An Orwellian nightmare come to life put into this into particular perspective for me this week.

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This week, Weird and Wacky Wednesdays looks at how powdered milk gave rise to a constitutional challenge, how driving in reverse may be dangerous driving, and in honour of the Animal Justice Paw and Order podcast, a case about clemency being granted to a cow that unlawfully crossed international borders.

A brand of gin has been recalled by liquor authorities after some bottles were found to contain nearly twice as much alcohol as advertised.

Bottles of the popular Bombay Sapphire London Dry Gin were discovered by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario’s quality assurance team to have an alcohol content of 77 percent rather than 40 percent as stated on the label.
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In Episode Seven of my Driving Law Podcast, I sit down with Paul Doroshenko of Acumen Law Corporation.

We first discuss the Senate Bill S-251, which purports to do away with mandatory minimum sentences and restore discretion to sentencing judges in certain circumstances where a minimum sentence would be inappropriate. Then, Paul and I talk about the future of self-driving cars, and how a Tesla accident may spell the end of them. Finally, Paul and I address the Cannabis Act in British Columbia and how a BC impaired driving decision may shape the future of enforcement under provincial cannabis regulation.

You can listen to the podcast on Player FM, or subscribe on iTunes, or tune in on Soundcloud.

A recent article in The Globe and Mail shed light on an issue many of us have long suspected, namely that street checks by the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) disproportionately involved Indigenous and Black Canadians.

In this week’s roundup of weird and wacky legal cases, we look at a case involving an eviction of a family member, a suspension of a teenager from school, and an arrest over a Burger King Coupon. Perhaps, finally, the angriest Whopper.