The RCMP’s new tool for testing whether you have been consuming marijuana doesn’t come without controversy. Since its approval by the federal justice minister on Aug. 29, the Nova Scotia RCMP have received three new Dragar DrugTest 5000s. Within a 24-hour period last weekend, they demanded blood samples from a 42-year-old Pomquet man and a […]
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First-time shoplifters will no longer be prosecuted in two of Toronto’s busiest police divisions as part of a pilot project called “Shop Theft”. It will allow a stall theft prevention officer to release an accused after the details of the incident are called into a division instead of waiting sometimes hours for police to answer
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Are You OK with a judge ordering Amazon to hand over an Alexa recording that might contain audio of two women being murdered? Amazon was ordered by a judge to hand over recordings taken by an Echo device in the New Hampshire home where Christine Sullivan lived with her boyfriend. Sullivan was found murdered in
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The 25-year-old driver charged in connection with a fatal crash in Surrey, B.C. over the weekend has nine previous driving infractions on his record. Nicolas Karvouniaris was allegedly behind the wheel of a 2016 Jeep Cherokee that crossed into oncoming traffic on 88 Avenue early Sunday morning, hitting a Ford Escape and killing the driver.
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Acumen Law’s Paul Doroshenko and Kyla Lee were in Ottawa this week testifying at the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. They were there because of the tangible threat Omnibus Bill C-75 poses to our justice system. We have been critical of the proposed legislation for a while now so when
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Vancouver lawyer Paul Doroshenko has added to his extensive collection of alcohol-detection devices by acquiring a Dräger DrugTest 5000, as the federal government gives the go-ahead for the pot-testing device. Doroshenko’s firm, Acumen Law Corp., has had the operating manual for the German device for a year and acquired a model six weeks ago to
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Two lawyers from a Vancouver-based law firm say they are ready to challenge the use of a newly approved saliva-screening device for marijuana in court as soon as it hits the road. On Monday, federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould approved the Dräger DrugTest 5000, a device that will soon be available to police forces across
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Forty-nine days until the cannabis is legal, Paul Doroshenko of Acumen Law was interviewed in Evan Solomon’s show to speak about the Drager DrugTest 5000. The first roadside testing device designed to screen drivers for drugs has been approved — but one lawyer says some results will be tough to prove. … Reportedly, there is a
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Red-light cameras are now up and running 24 hours a day, seven days a week at 140 locations across B.C. B.C. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said the cameras are intended to make the roads safer. “It’s about improving safety, and it’s about reducing the number of crashes, which means you’re reducing the number of
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The Trudeau government is set to approve a roadside saliva test that will allow police to test drivers to see if they’ve consumed cannabis. The device that’s being looked at has already been approved by the UK and Germany, and it can also test for the presence of cocaine. The reliability of the device has
Vancouver police (VPD) have now released dash cam video from an incident that took place near the Pacific National Exhibition fairgrounds (PNE) in mid-July. They are hoping the release of the video will help them identify a suspect in a serious assault as the video appears to show a man pushing another man into traffic on East Hastings
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A Vancouver Island man escaped a distracted driving ticket thanks to software on his phone that he claimed made it unusable in a moving vehicle. Patrick Tannhauser was ticketed for using his phone while driving outside of Victoria in August 2017, according to court documents. Vancouver lawyer Paul Doroshenko said the Tannhauser decision is the first
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