Police officers in B.C. are getting a $10 million cash injection from Ottawa to help fight drug-impaired driving. It comes just seven months after Canada legalizes marijuana. ...
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – B.C. police are getting a $10 million cash injection from Ottawa to fight drug-impaired driving. Organized Crime Minister Bill Blair announced the money will be spread out across the province over five years to train more officers in Standardized Field Sobriety Testing (SFST) and Drug Recognition. ...
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Ten years ago, a close friend of Vancouver City Coun. Pete Fry suffered a serious head injury in a car accident. “I saw the impacts of a head injury and what that does, not just for the individual, but also the people who care about them,” said Fry. On Tuesday, Fry is moving for the city to pilot a 30 km/h speed limit on residential streets in an effort to reduce vehicle-related injuries and fatalities. ...
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In the aftermath of last week’s money laundering revelations at least one lawyer is calling for the Law Society of B.C. to take much harsher action with lawyers complicit in such behaviour. After the 2nd phase Peter German report into money laundering raised the possibility lawyers may be willingly or unwittingly helping Acumen Law’s Kyla Lee was asked if that kind of activity is going on. ...
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In Vancouver, there were 565 motor vehicle collisions involving pedestrians in 2017, according to the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC). Vancouver City Councillor Pete Fry is proposing a pilot project to test the effectiveness of a 30 km/h speed limit on local roads — those without a centre line. The current speed limit for such roads is 50 km/h. ...
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The B.C. government revealed on Tuesday a list of dangerous intersections, with a promise that vehicles caught speeding through them — on red, amber or green — would be photographed and ticketed. ...
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On May 6, Canadian media–including The GrowthOp–breathlessly reported that lawyers at Acumen Law had tested the federally approved Drager DrugTest 5000, which subsequently showed false positives for opioids, cocaine and other drugs after subjects consumed benign items such as Tim Hortons’ poppyseed cake, CBD extract and a particular tea. Vancouver lawyers Kyla Lee and Paul Doroshenko made headlines with allegations that 17 minutes after eating a piece of the cake, Doroshenko tested positive for opioids. There’s a problem, though: Draeger representatives are saying the device tested by Lee and Doroshenko isn’t the same device used by Canadian law enforcement officials. ...
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Police are continuing to remind people not to get high before driving. But what about the dangers of eating poppy seed cake? A Vancouver lawyer says her suspicions about the new Drager DrugTest 5000 roadside testing device have been confirmed after her law firm ran two days of testing that turned up false positives. ...
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A lawyer with Acumen Law is wondering when ICBC will fill in the big void of information ahead of this fall’s major changes to how auto insurance works. Kyla Lee says ICBC has an obligation to inform British Columbians well ahead of September 1st when ICBC will change from insuring the vehicle to insuring the driver. Not to mention an overhaul of how the safe drivers discount is calculated. “I think everybody should be getting that information with at least three months warning before their insurance is due. So that they have time to save up money if they are going to pay...
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The federal government may be on the cusp of approving a second device to screen for drugged drivers after the first one was given a pass by most police forces. But at least one lawyer is already raising concerns. Acumen Law’s Kyla Lee says the ‘SoToxa‘ device while much improved from the ‘Draeger Drug Test 5000‘ still has some serious flaws. “There is still concerns with it. It still does have a very limited operating temperature range. It is not going to work in very cold temperatures accurately or very hot temperatures accurately. That is obviously a big problem. My bigger concern about it...
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