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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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