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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) — Drivers charged with impaired driving offences are now being publicly named by York, Ont., police, but one lawyer calls the move unconstitutional and ineffective. Vancouver lawyer Paul Doroshenko is opposed to the naming and shaming of the charged drivers and says it’s a move that doesn’t reflect on the true issue

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

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

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

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.

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

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