On this episode, Kyla and Paul talk about his suggestions to the Minister of Justice and AG of Canada to make a provision to help investigate collisions with heavy vehicles. They also go over the continuing drama of the Surrey RCMP transition.
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Kyla Lee, a Vancouver criminal lawyer for Acumen Law Corporation, and Mo Amir, host of the podcast This is VANCOLOUR, weigh in on the rollout of Vancouver’s housing plan, the NHL’s ban on Pride stick tape, and guess what each other likes to watch when they’re sick.
“I don’t see anything bold, or new. I don’t see anything that I’m excited about. I just see the same old stuff and a bunch of promises to promise… On one hand we absolutely want density around transportation hubs… But I also wonder what happens around those sky train stations to the small businesses? Their rents are going to go up significantly from where they are, and we’re going to push a lot of the character out of the city. I wish that the plan had a mechanism to protect all that character while still creating density where density needs to be created.”
This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays we’re looking at mascot incidents. I was in Atlanta recently and I managed to take in several Braves games. The Braves mascot, Blooper, has been in the news this week because of a Twitter spat with the Philly Phanatic.
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Statistics Canada released a report highlighting the differences in treatment of homicide cases where Indigenous women and girls were the victims. The data in the report covered 2009 to 2021 showed that first-degree murder charges, the most severe homicide charge, were only applied to 27% of the cases when the victim was an Indigenous female compared to 55% when they were non-Indigenous females.
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“I’m not surprised at the decision. It is disappointing in particular in this case because of who the victims involved were – vulnerable Indigenous youths… When Indigenous people are the victims of crime, the sentences tend to be a lot lower than they would be and the amount of time somebody spends in incarceration tends to be a lot shorter than it would be if the victim were not Indigenous.”
On this long weekend episode, Kyla and Paul look at R.v.Schmidt and discuss the need for ALL evidence to be treated the same. They also look at the L driver’s mindset and the most recent excessive speeding in North Vancouver.
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Mo Amir and Kyla Lee speak with Gloria Macarenko about Bruce Banman’s comments around some children’s literature.
“…the whole purpose of school is to prepare students for the real world and to help people understand and encounter and learn how to deal with real world scenarios like bullying. That doesn’t take place in the legislature because we have expectations on adults that we don’t have on children…”
Years ago, I was approached to do a TV series about my lawyer life. At the time I was so focused on matters that were headed to the Court of Appeal that I didn’t give it much thought. But I’d love to do something about fast food and restaurants because there are always interesting legal issues arising from the food world. Over the summer fast-food law ended up being a theme on my blog. Here we are in October and Weird and Wacky Wednesdays is once again the “Food Law Blog.”
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“Police can pull you over at any point for the purposes of checking that your vehicle complies with the provisions of the MVA and the MVA regulations… The fine isn’t huge but it’s money you don’t want to be spending with the holidays coming up.”
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On this special episode, Kyla and Paul are live from Atlanta, Georgia, where they are attending the DUIDLA Fall Seminar. They show the shortcomings of SFST on cannabis and the arbitrary process of a High-Risk Driving Incident Report.
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