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Owners of a B.C. townhome caused a nuisance when they used the speaker feature on their doorbell camera to yell “profanity and insults” at their neighbours, the province’s civil resolution tribunal has ruled.

Hon Wing Chan and Hung Angela Cheung were disputing $900 in by-law fines for violating a bylaw against unreasonable noise, according to a decision in the case posted online Friday.  In B.C. the common assets of condos and townhouse complexes are owned by a strata corporation and managed by a strata council, which sets out bylaws…

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Today on Radio NL News Mornings with Jeff Andreas: B.C. couple fined for using doorbell camera speaker to shout ‘insults and profanity’ at neighboursRead More »

A British Columbia woman has been ordered to pay her former romantic partner $450 for her ticket to attend a Coldplay concert together on what she said she believed was a date.

But the province’s Civil Resolution Tribunal says in a ruling that there was no evidence Michael Stolfi intended the ticket to be a gift to Alyssa Randles, and that instead it was a loan that the woman had to repay.

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The former fire chief who was killed at a Pennsylvania rally for Donald Trump spent his final moments diving down in front of his family, protecting them from the gunfire that rang out Saturday during an assassination attempt against the former president…

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“Landlords in BC don’t have the right to outright ban installing an AC unit in your rental unit with one exception – and that’s if there would be some sort of undue hardship cause to the landlord or to the building, then they’re permitted to ban it…”

“If you’re already in a tenancy and your written tenancy doesn’t have a term that says you can’t have AC, then the landlord can’t make you remove it…”

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“In the context of ever-increasing police budgets and weak oversight agencies, the public should be very alarmed about the further erosion of our civil liberties and human rights through the passage of C-70,” warns Meghan McDermott, policy director of the BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA).

“The rapid enactment of these new laws without any kind of scrutiny is devastating for social movements in BC and across Canada,” she said in an exclusive interview this week.

The Countering Foreign Interference Act (Bill C-70) received royal assent on June 20 after being rushed through the House of Commons and then stampeded through the Senate in three days. Now that it is the law of the land, the government must bring down specific regulations and appoint a Foreign Influence Transparency Commissioner.

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Kyla Lee in The Canadian Dimension: Rushed passage of Bill C-70: an urgent wake-up callRead More »

Police are seeing more DUI’s given out for people who were driving while under the influence of marijuana…

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Kyla on Mornings With Simi: Should we be worried about the increase in driving while ‘high’?Read More »

During the first phase of a hit-and-run sentencing hearing in provincial court, a B.C. Crown prosecutor suggested impaired drivers have a “strategic incentive” to flee the scene of collisions involving injury or death in our province.

Marcel Genaille’s vehicle was captured on security video speeding and changing lanes before he rear-ended a motorcyclist in a fatal June 19, 2021, collision in Burnaby.

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Kyla on Global News: B.C. impaired drivers have ‘strategic incentive’ to flee crashes, Crown prosecutor suggestsRead More »