On this special liability episode Kyla and Paul look at 2 liability cases with unusual outcomes. They also remind us that governments can’t legislate themselves out of responsibility. To put us in the Christmas mood, listen to our special outro song!
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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.”
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Kyla’s Court: Are magic mushrooms legal in Vancouver? Read More »
From the bizarre to the serendipitous, the world often surprises us with stories of lost items and unexpected occurrences. This week, we delve into three such tales, each highlighting the peculiar nature of loss and discovery. From lost skulls, expensive tools floating away and absent people, these stories capture the essence of how sometimes what is lost can lead to extraordinary outcomes or unveil hidden truths.
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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.”
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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.
“When it’s healthcare practitioners saying ‘people are going to die, we feel a moral responsibility to challenge this law because of our profession’, I think that gets a lot more people listening.”
“They’re not challenging entirely any prohibition on public consumption. They are agreeing with the fact that there should be a prohibition of consumption in skateparks and children’s parks and school yards. So they’re limiting the nature of their challenge in such a way that it actually protects people from saying ‘well children are going to be exposed to drug use by a successful challenge of this law”…
Kyla Lee, a Vancouver criminal lawyer for Acumen Law Corporation, and Mo Amir, host of the podcast This is VANCOLOUR, 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.
“Now that we know that everything you do as a politician, every second of every day is going to be scrutinized, and because we have a 24 hour cycle of politicians attacking other politicians, you cannot like, you cannot follow, you cannot retweet, you cannot comment until you’re fully sure that you’ve read everything any maybe if you’re not sure what you’re about to say, run it by your comms people…”
On this episode, Kyla and Paul analyze a petitioner’s journey of self representation from the adjudicator all the way to the judicial review. They then analyze the sentencing and the implications of the judgement in a tragic case at UBC involving 2 students. Also we have a new Magraken moment with good news!
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