Our Soapbox Social panel discusses Prime Minister Carney’s approach to bail reform, the BCGEU strike and the state of women’s healthcare in the province.
This episode is a panel discussion with Anita Szigeti of Anita Szigeti Advocates, a Toronto firm that focuses on mental health and the law; Hamna Anwar, a criminal lawyer at Lindsay Law in Toronto; and Kyla Lee, who specializes in impaired driving cases at Acumen Law in Vancouver. They are all members of Women in Canadian Criminal Defence (WiCCD), an organization Szigeti founded to support and advocate for female and gender-non-conforming criminal defence lawyers.
The government of British Columbia says it is looking at options to get tougher on drivers involved in fatal crashes after the premier spoke to the family of a 12-year-old killed on Vancouver Island this past summer.
A road rage incident in North Vancouver has sent one person to hospital and another into police custody. Atlas Driving School instructor Sean McDonald joins the show to talk about how to deal with road rage. We also talk to registered psychotherapist and author of The Rise of Rage, Julie A. Christiansen, and lawyer Kyla Lee, who will discuss what the law says about road rage.
If long wait times in British Columbia’s healthcare system actually harm your health, can you sue the government? This is VANCOLOUR host Mo Amir asks criminal defence lawyer Kyla Lee for her verdict in the latest edition of Kyla’s Court…
According to CBC News, Kasper Lincoln of Prince Georgia, Canada was taken into custody after law enforcement executed a traffic stop on a pink Barbie Jeep designed for children in north-central British Columbia on Friday, September 5.
Images obtained by the outlet show Lincoln behind the wheel of the toy car in a pair of aviator sunglasses while on what was described as a “high-traffic” roadway.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police told CBC News that after Lincoln was pulled over by an unmarked police cruiser, it was determined that he had a suspended license and was possibly intoxicated, which was later verified by two breath analysis tests, per the outlet.
Hundreds of impaired drivers, 626 in total, were taken off the road this summer during BC’s Highway Patrol Summer Impaired Driving Campaign.
Considering the smaller population, Northern B.C. had the highest total of driving prohibitions, criminal charges and drug prohibitions, according to highway patrol.
“This year’s Summer Impaired Driving Campaign is a graphic illustration of why we all need to do better staying sober while driving,” Supt. Mike Coyle, operations officer for BC Highway Patrol said in a statement.