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.
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At an early age, Kyla Lee knew she wanted to be a lawyer one day.
Lee remembers stressing about her grades while in elementary school and how that could impact her future law career.
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A traffic stop in Chilliwack, B.C., earlier this month is garnering attention after it was uploaded online.
The driver can be heard saying in the video that his rights are being violated.
In the video, he calls himself a sovereign citizen, which is a group of people who believe they are immune to the government’s law and order.
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“…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?”
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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.”
This is VANCOLOUR host Mo Amir sits down with Acumen Law’s Kyla Lee to discuss the legal status of magic mushroom (psilocybin) dispensaries throughout the City of Vancouver.
“It’s a weird situation be cause cannabis is legal. We think about plants and that being legal. And then hard drugs are decriminalized but you have these ones in the middle that don’t have generally speaking addictive properties that don’t have the same crime culture associated to them… but those are still illegal and not decriminalized.”
…Kyla’s Court: Are magic mushrooms legal in Vancouver?Read More »
Kyla’s Court: Are magic mushrooms legal in Vancouver? Read More »
Drivers are responsible for following the rules of the road and would not be able to use getting incorrect information from a GPS as a defense to get out of a traffic ticket.
…Kyla in The Globe and Mail: My car shows me the speed limit. Who makes sure it’s right?Read More »
Kyla in The Globe and Mail: My car shows me the speed limit. Who makes sure it’s right? Read More »
British Columbia’s minister of housing says he’s shocked and frustrated by an attempt to recruit people to take part in what he calls a fraud to get around new rules about short-term rentals.
Ravi Kahlon shared a screenshot on social media showing a Vancouver-based rental management company offering $500 to people willing to change the address on their driver’s licence to match an address it selects, then apply for an Airbnb approval.
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On today’s show Brent has Vancouver criminal lawyer Kyla Lee to talk about disability and driving under the influence. PWD + DUI: Failure to accommodate.
“Under the criminal code of Canada, the criminal code says you cannot drive or operate a vehicle if your ability to do so is impaired by a drug. And so for people who take a medication for a disability, for a medical condition, their ability to operate the vehicle isn’t impaired by the drug… But the law doesn’t have a mechanism to sort out those cases.”
…Kyla on PWD Allies podcast: Disability and driving under the influenceRead More »
Kyla on PWD Allies podcast: Disability and driving under the influence Read More »
On The Coast’s Soapbox Social panel, Kyla Lee and Mo Amir, react to Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi stepping down as the B.C. Greens’ deputy leader after liking a post that compared Dr. Bonnie Henry to Josef Mengele, Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke’s first year, and the quickly sold-out Stanley Park train tickets.
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