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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 »

“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 last 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 in Rabble: Rushed Passage of C-70: An Urgent Wake-Up CallRead More »

In a first-of-its-kind case, a B.C. tribunal has ruled on a dispute involving the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, awarding damages and issuing orders that the photos be destroyed and taken offline.

The province introduced the Intimate Images Protection Act earlier this year giving the Civil Resolution Tribunal the jurisdiction to address these types of claims to provide an alternative to the more difficult, lengthy and potentially costly options of trying to pursue redress through criminal or civil court.

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Today on Radio NL News Mornings with Jeff Andreas: B.C. man awarded $5,000 in damages in first-of-its-kind intimate image caseRead More »

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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Kyla in Vancouver Is Awesome: ‘It’s absolutely wild’: Locals react to people being escorted off Vancouver beachesRead More »

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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Today on Radio NL News Mornings with Jeff Andreas: Property owners take NDP government to court over new short-term rental rulesRead More »