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A Vancouver tour bus driver’s dashcam captured a shocking incident of road rage. As Kristen Robinson reports, he’s sharing the video in the hopes it will shame drivers into exercising common sense behind the wheel. … “The spitting driver could be charged with mischief under the Criminal Code,” said criminal lawyer Kyla Lee. “Mischief doesn’t […]

A lawyer is coming out against lowering speed limits after a polling company found most British Columbians want slower speeds on residential streets. Research Co. found more than half of British Columbians favour lower speed in neighbourhoods to address what they see as chronic speeding. … But Acumen Law’s Kyla Lee says for speeders the

VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) — An Indigenous lawyer is calling the final report into Missing and Murdered Indigenous women a long-awaited step in the right direction. The 1,200-page report labels the violence suffered by Indigenous women and girls a “genocide” and crisis “centuries in the making.” As a Metis woman herself, Kyla Lee, a lawyer with

If you’ve had a drunk-driving conviction, you won’t be able to rent a car with an interlock, and you might not be able to rent one at all. “Unfortunately, rental-car companies don’t put alcohol interlocks on their vehicles,” says Andrew Murie, chief executive officer of Mothers Against Drunk Driving Canada. “The rental-car companies could, but

Where do police services stand with roadside drug testing for THC almost eight months into recreational cannabis being legal in Canada? The simple question, however, may not have a simple response. With a number of factors at play—including new products in test phases and others in development—here’s the lowdown on the current state of affairs for

Navigating B.C.’s courts can be frustrating and even the province’s top lawyer admits courtrooms haven’t changed much in the last century. But as Kristen Robinson reports, there’s a plan to embrace digital technology and make access to justice easier. .. Kyla Lee: “It ends up costing our clients a lot of money. That also slows

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.  … Kyla Lee applauds the decision to train more officers in the field sobriety testing. However, she says any police department that decides to use roadside testing machines

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. … “What they’re going to

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

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

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

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. … Vancouver lawyer Kyla Lee, who defends people with speeding tickets, saw two problems with the automated speeding-ticket program. Firstly, by not telling