Our panelists Kyla Lee, a Vancouver criminal lawyer for Acumen Law Corporation, and Mo Amir, host of the podcast This is VANCOLOUR, discuss food insecurity, Canada’s immigration and its impact on housing, and a debate on whether journalism is dead.
“He’ll likely be on the hook for everything. Obviously a determination is going to be made by the insurer of both vehicles about who’s at fault first for the incident. And then whether or not there was a breach in the insurance policy…”
“Can you beat a traffic ticket by claiming you are a sovereign citizen and the law doesn’t apply to you?”
“You haven’t provided me the documentation, you do have a driver’s license. You’re driving with no insurance and the wrong number plates, so you are going to be getting a traffic ticket today and the video is going to be towed, okay?”
“No I don’t agree to that. I don’t consent to any of this, you’re creating a non consensual security agreement on the side of the road without right”
“You guys understand you are breaching my peace, right? You guys are going to try to criminally harass me into your compliance”
“This is happening more often. It seemed to have started to gain traction during COVID, when people sort of were researching ways to get around vaccine mandates and restaurant shutdowns…”
“Nobody has ever won on the basis of making these arguments.”
“…it’s dangerous for people to engage in this rhetoric for a number of reasons, first of all, if you get sucked in this stuff it’s very hard to get out. People become so persuaded of it..”
“…they misinterpreted and twisted it to create this fiction, this legal fiction that’s now being disseminated on the internet…”
After the Rolling Stones announced its concert stop in Vancouver, the mayor and city council celebrated with an elaborate video production they later posted on X, formerly Twitter. Kyla Lee, a Vancouver-based lawyer and Mo Amir, host of the podcast This is VANCOLOUR, share their thoughts on the video with Amy Bell.
Our panelists Kyla Lee, a Vancouver criminal lawyer for Acumen Law Corporation, and Mo Amir, host of the podcast This is VANCOLOUR, discuss Chrystia Freeland saying Canada is not broken, the BC Conservatives thoughts on climate action and the mayor’s obsession with The Rolling Stones.
“…Manslaughter as a charge is a form of homicide that occurs without intent… So the real question is when this hockey player’s skate made contact with the other player, did he intend to hit him with his skate, and did he intend to hit him in the neck?”
Our panelists Kyla Lee, a Vancouver criminal lawyer for Acumen Law Corporation, and Mo Amir, host of the podcast This is VANCOLOUR, discuss Justin Trudeau coming face to face with protestors in a Vancouver restaurant, other ways to spend half a million dollars instead of encampment removals and forfeiting holiday traditions because of the high cost of living.
“When you only have one voice making all of the decisions about how a transition’s going to take place and that one voice somebody who comes from policing and from police culture, the concern you get is that all the decisions about how the implementation is going to roll out, how staffing is going to go, what police are going to be responsible for in the community and what they’re going to prioritize and not prioritize is going to be make from a very pro-police policing lens.”
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“When we think of civil disobedience in the protest context, we have to consider the type of offence that’s being committed. And anything that involves violence against another person or threats of violence, would very clearly fall outside the scope of what would be protected under the charter right to protest.”