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Internal police documents are raising doubts about the precision of some roadside breathalyzers used by B.C. police to catch drunk drivers. Vancouver lawyer Paul Doroshenko filed Access to Information requests with police departments across the province and found that the screening devices aren’t always accurate. Inspection documents from the Vancouver Police Department show some erratic […]

Hundreds of people who lost their licences after failing roadside breathalyzer tests are getting their permits back after a B.C. judge tossed out part of the province’s tough law against drinking and driving. Last week, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Jon Sigurdson ruled that the immediate 90-day driving suspensions issued to drivers who register a blood

It was a pop of a cork heard across two provinces, but for Alberta, the champagne fell totally flat. Those expecting salvation in a B.C. Supreme Court ruling, hoping a legal challenge against rigid drunk driving rules would stop similar legislation next door, have little to toast. There’s nothing to celebrate, because the B.C. court

Anyone who has received a driving suspension in Port Moody in the last year after failing a roadside breath test may not have been over the legal limit, according to a lawyer who handles drunk driving cases. Paul Doroshenko told The Tri-City News the Port Moody Police Department has been improperly calibrating its screening devices,

The Port Moody Police Department has asked that an outside agency review the way it calibrates screening devices used in roadside drinking tests after a defence lawyer suggested that flaws in the process could have resulted in inaccurate results – and unwarranted penalties for drunk driving. “The allegations made are serious and we are treating

Kristen Debra-Lee Spencer remains angry in spite of her stunning B.C. Supreme Court victory over the province’s draconian anti-drunk driving regime. Since receiving a 90-day immediate roadside suspension last Oct. 31, Spencer has been outraged at how she was manhandled by police and forced to endure an expensive, painful ordeal that continues. “It was the

Mario Knezevic’s family arrived from Europe to help him celebrate his bravery medals for rescuing and resuscitating a drowned two-year-old. He didn’t expect he would also have to introduce them to B.C.’s new arbitrary, anti-drunk-driving program and its severe, some might even say draconian, punishments. More importantly, perhaps, he was surprised it left him with

The roadside testing devices that now are judge and jury are not always accurate Mario Knezevic’s family arrived from Europe to help him celebrate his bravery medals for rescuing and resuscitating a drowned two-year-old. He didn’t expect he would also have to introduce them to B.C.’s new arbitrary, anti-drunk-driving program and its severe, some might

Many B.C. drivers who have had their licences suspended for impaired driving are being penalized beyond the intention of the law due to a bureaucratic backlog, CBC News has learned. More than 5,000 B.C. drivers have been caught with blood alcohol levels above 0.08 since September, when the province implemented tougher new impaired driving laws. The