Media Kyla Lee

Debate over the impaired driving Bill C-46 is focused on balancing Charter rights against the need to protect lives. For Senators, the Charter won out. Last week, the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee voted to remove the random breath testing provision from Bill C-46, a controversial piece of impaired driving legislation. Bill C-46 was introduced in the House of

Western Canada’s premiers are calling on Ottawa to do more to help their provinces enforce drug-impaired driving laws after the legalization of marijuana this year. A final communiqué issued on Wednesday at the western premiers meeting in Yellowknife also urged the federal government to expedite the approval of a saliva-screening device so police forces across the country

Recently, reports came out about a New Westminster police officer who was issued an Immediate Roadside Prohibition — an administrative penalty under British Columbia’s Motor Vehicle Act — for drinking and driving. Although the officer was off duty at the time she received the prohibition, an investigation was launched under the Police Act, the legislation that governs

On (May 17th) the BC NDP government, announced that following feedback from nearly 35,000 British Columbians, the Government of British Columbia is cracking down on bad drivers. Attorney General David Eby says the responses indicate most British Columbians favour changes that will make insurance more affordable for low-risk drivers and see high-risk drivers pay increased

In spite of trail-blazing by several U.S. states, Solicitor General Mike Farnworth seems intent on turning B.C.’s journey to cannabis legalization — a bright future of jobs, tax windfalls and the end of pernicious prosecutions — from a good trip into a bummer. The sprawling omnibus legislation the top cop tabled Thursday in the legislature continued