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Scores of Vancouverites feel the city should ease up on enforcing operating hours on beaches. But police say significant public safety challenges arise on the shores after dark. 

Operating hours for Vancouver’s parks, beaches, and gardens are from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation works with the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) to be more “proactive about educating and enforcing the rules around operating hours” during the summer months. 

“This is in the interest of public safety as we tend to see larger gatherings of people during warmer months at our more popular beaches,” the board told V.I.A.

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A handful of members of a group of property owners from across B.C., known as the West Coast Association of Property Owners, assembled outside the B.C. Supreme Court in Victoria on Monday during a break in their court case.

The group are petitioners in a court action they’ve brought against the provincial government. They’re upset because they operated legal short-term rentals—until the NDP’s new short-term rental laws came into effect last month.

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Civil society groups say the federal government’s foreign agent registry legislation may be too vague and broad in its scope. That lack of specificity is raising concerns it may impact on solicitor-client privilege.

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Podcast host Mo Amir and Vancouver criminal lawyer Kyla Lee discuss the recent crisis facing B.C. United. They note that the party seems to be struggling with candidate recruitment and vetting and emphasize the need for concrete plans to address public concerns.

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B.C.’s new Legal Profession Act received royal assent and became law last month despite strong opposition from the province’s law society and bar association.

The legislation establishes a single regulatory body for lawyers, paralegals and notaries, and a new category of regulated paralegals who can handle certain legal cases on their own. The scope of notaries public will also be broadened to include more day-to-day legal matters.

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Drivers in British Columbia now have to meet minimum distances between their vehicle and people walking or riding on the road.

“On it’s surface, this legislation is a good thing. It’s going to ostensibly reduce the number of road deaths, especially between vehicles and the most vulnerable people on the roads – motorcycles, bicycles, animals and pedestrians.”

“It’s going to be pretty much impossible to enforce… if anyone gets a ticket for this, they’re going to want to dispute it… But the officer is not going to be able to say and prove beyond a reasonable doubt…”

Vancouverites can spend a day at Wreck Beach in the nude, but they could face more than raised eyebrows for doing it at other beaches in the city.

According to the Canadian Criminal Code section 174, no one can be nude, without lawful excuse, in a public space or on private property while exposed to public view; it doesn’t matter if the property is their own or not.

Anyone nude in public view is “guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.”

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