Despite a continued rise in new COVID-19 cases in the province, Thompson Rivers University has no plans to reverse course in returning to in-class sessions for the 2021-2022 school year. The university will have a return to regular in-person classes last seen in the fall 2019 semester, with vaccinations mandated for those who live in […]
A protest slated to take place in front of hospitals in Kamloops and Kelowna is going to take place on Sept. 1, and a Kamloops nurse is worried about disruptions to the hospital. A group called “Canadian Frontline Nurses” is advertising protests against vaccine mandates, which are slated to take place at Kelowna General Hospital,
Some B.C. businesses are taking to social media to say they have no intention of asking customers to provide proof of immunization against COVID-19, but even those that support the recently announced “vaccine passport” have concerns about enforcement. Starting Sept. 13, the province has announced that proof of vaccination will be required in order to access non-essential
It’s a debate that has run through the legal community for 16 months: Can you be criminally charged if you know you have COVID-19, skip quarantine, and fatally infect someone else? The question has come up again as Alberta plans to remove mandatory isolations for people who test positive for the virus. … The Canadian
A Vancouver Island woman is speaking out after being forced to fight a roadside prohibition because of a disability that prevented her from blowing in a breathalyzer. Jamie Vanderleek successfully beat the charge but says many others in her case haven’t been so lucky. … Kyla Lee, a Vancouver lawyer, specializing in driving cases, says
A West Vancouver dentist with a practice in Burnaby has been given an 18-month conditional sentence and fined over a half-million dollars for tax evasion. In a July 6 B.C. Provincial Court decision, Peter Balogh was ordered to pay back $578,885 to the Canada Revenue Agency. That represents the full amount the dentist is said to have cheated
When Jan Semenoff worked as a Saskatoon police officer from the 1980s to the early 2000s, he was often first on the scene of serious car crashes involving people suspected of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. After making sure everyone involved had gotten medical care, he would begin the DUI investigation. Semenoff
Acumen lawyer Kyla Lee went on the Mike Smyth show for a segment called ‘Beat the ticket with Kyla Lee.’ “I don’t think the fines and the penalties always reflect the dangerousness of the behaviour… And for using a phone at a red light or waiting 20 minutes for a train, the risk that you’re
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Canadian criminal defence lawyer Kyla Lee is familiar with the legal system’s over-reliance on technological evidence. She is one of the few lawyers in British Columbia who can decipher breathalyzer records. Lee has completed manufacturer training and certification in the Alco-Sensor FST and DWI Standardized Field Sobriety tests training – the same training that police
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Acumen lawyer Kyla Lee joined the Mike Smyth show to discuss what she thinks it means now that the BC government plans to refuse driver’s license renewals to people with unpaid COVID-19 fines. “Absolutely, these rules are going to be challenged in court. We’ve already seen a lot of the existing ones go through court
A controversial Vancouver restaurant that was shut down by Vancouver Coastal Health and had its business and liquor licenses temporarily suspended is re-opening for take-out orders. Corduroy Restaurant in Kitsilano announced on its website and social media that they will be offering food for pick-up or delivery starting Friday, May 14. … “What the signs on
Road checks resumed Thursday to enforce the province’s non-essential travel ban – but these are not the only places where you can be fined for breaking the rules. A North Vancouver driver has found that out the hard way. Kylie Stanton has more on where the person was caught and what the legal ramifications are.
