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15 Years of B.C.’s IRP Scheme: How We Got Here

British Columbia’s Immediate Roadside Prohibition (IRP) regime arrived in the fall of 2010 with a simple pitch: get alcohol-affected drivers off the road quickly, using swift administrative penalties rather than slow criminal prosecutions. 

From day one, it was sold as a life-saving public-safety tool. And it has certainly become the dominant impaired-driving response in this province. But the story of IRPs is also a story of constitutional litigation, policy pivots, and legislative patchwork that has reshaped how we handle alleged impaired driving in B.C.

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 367

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Students Who Tried to Outsmart the System

Two weeks into the school year, it’s worthwhile to think about ethics and schools and legal responsibility. This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays, we head back to school for legal stories of students whose creative attempts to cheat turned into headline-making lessons.

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National Security: 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!”

In this episode, Kyla Lee from Acumen Law Corporation discusses a national security case involving a man convicted of terrorism-related offenses after claiming he had only pretended to join the conspiracy in order to defraud others involved. He was disbelieved and convicted—but a central issue in his trial was the heavily redacted disclosure of a national security affidavit. The accused argued that his right to full disclosure was denied. The government claimed national security privilege. The Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear the case—missing a rare and critical opportunity to define how national security privilege should be handled in criminal trials with serious consequences.

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The Science and “Pseudoscience” of Detecting Driving Under the Influence of Cannabis

A distressed man sitting in a car at night with a police car's flashing lights visible through the window, holding his head in frustration.

I’m often cynical of police methods for detecting impaired driving, but I am cynical with reliable science on my side. The legalization of cannabis brought attention to the problem of identifying people driving while impaired by cannabis. For our practice, understanding the scientific limitations of current detection methods is essential, because it directly impacts how we defend cannabis impaired driving cases.

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 366

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: When Anything Becomes a Motor Vehicle

My favorite thing on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays is cases that happened in my field of practice, that is impaired driving law. I love defending impaired driving cases. I’ve been doing it for years, and each case is different. Somehow I’m always enthusiastic about reading DUI files. Even better this week, our weird and wacky stories start with one from right here in BC. I went to the Aqua concert recently. They’re the band that sings the song “Barbie Girl”. Around the same time, there was a fellow stopped driving a Barbie Jeep. Let’s start there.

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Episode 419: EV Mandate on Ice, Refusal Law Reset, and the Raccoon Pileup

This week on Driving Law, Kyla Lee and Paul Doroshenko explore the federal government’s pause on Canada’s electric vehicle mandate, a major refusal ruling from the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, and an Ontario case reshaping access to counsel in the digital age. They finish with a Ridiculous Driver of the Week that proves raccoons can cause more than just mischief.

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Episode 418: Biased Justice, One-Wheel Trouble, and the Stair Car in Mississauga

This week on Driving Law, Kyla Lee and Paul Doroshenko tackle the strange collision of judicial bias, electric one-wheeled skateboards, and one of the most absurd highway videos you’ll ever see. From questions of fairness in Vancouver traffic court to a Mississauga driver balancing a staircase on her car, Episode 418 delivers both legal insight and laughs.

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 364

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Sex Toy Legal Madness

Welcome to another edition of Weird and Wacky Wednesdays. The United States has no shortage of strange and ridiculous legal cases. This week’s selection focuses on sex toys. From a defamation case over a child’s toy to sports fans turning games into a spectacle to a multi-million dollar patent judgment, these stories show how bizarre the legal system can get.

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