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Kyla Lee on CKNW Weekends with Scott Shantz Sunday Podcast: Driving fines based on pay, Could mushrooms be legalized?, and the homeless increase since 2020

Oct 10 2023

“…The fines are not enough to stop these people, especially the guys who are going this fast in like these multi-hundred thousand dollar super cars” “I don’t think that the fines are the biggest deterrent, especially people in these very, very expensive vehicles. Or these teenagers…usually if you’re a teenager and you’re driving a hundred […]

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Kyla Lee in CBC News: Changing trial venue an ill-fated strategy for convoy organizers

Oct 10 2023

Leaders of the Freedom Convoy were denied their request for a change of venue. They will be tried in Ottawa where the protests happened in early 2022. Lawyers say that there was little chance that the venue could have changed from the beginning. “It’s a pretty high standard that you have to meet to demonstrate

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Kyla Lee on CBC’s On The Coast with guest host Dan Burritt: Soapbox Social: Housing, B.C. politics, swearing at work

Sep 29 2023

Mo Amir, host of the podcast This is VANCOLOUR, and Kyla Lee, a Vancouver criminal lawyer for Acumen Law Corporation, weigh in on B.C.’s latest five-year net new housing targets, the growing profile of the Conservative Party of B.C., and a B.C. poll that found swearing is becoming more common in the workplace. “The provincial

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Paul Doroshenko on The Mike Smyth Show: Trucks vs. overpasses, Comparing US and Canadian housing prices, & Healthcare in Surrey!

Sep 21 2023

The latest truck-hits-overpass incidents begs the question: Who’s at fault here? “…the fines are really disproportionate to the damage caused. But think about the other economic consequences in this case for this company – they may have a huge insurance problem because your insurance is maybe void if you do things like leave the scene

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Kyla Lee in The Tyee: A Sheriff Shortage Is Threatening BC’s Legal System

Sep 20 2023

B.C. Attorney General Niki Sharma is promising more money to fix a chronic shortage of sheriffs that has led to at least 86 court appearances being cancelled or delayed this year. Sharma says the government is responding to an internal report that painted a damning picture of working conditions, including bullying and sexual harassment, for

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Aasheesh Puri on Mornings with Simi: Psychedelics and your true self, International students and housing & Releasing violent offenders in Canada

Sep 18 2023

“Shouldn’t there be an obligation to talk about this more openly?” “The BC review board did say the person who was released, is a significant threat and should not be released without public supervision” “There’s always going to be problems, in every system and every system could be revised time from time” “That is why

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Paul Doroshenko on Radio NL News Mornings with Jeff & Bill: B.C. to ban drug use near playgrounds

Sep 18 2023

“I cannot imagine that the RCMP will be doing a whole lot to enforce it. And what is the enforcement going to look like? One understands the concern of public use of uncontrolled drugs, meanwhile the province is looking at it saying ‘we’re losing 200 people every month…’ Are they going to send the people

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Kyla on Weekends with Scott Shantz: Should vehicles be equipped with limiters?

Sep 17 2023

“This technology already exists. It’s very inexpensive technology. In newer electric vehicles, a lot of it can actually be implemented just by a software change or update. And we recently passed legislation and changes to the motor vehicle act in BC to require by 2025, that new commercial vehicles are speed limited.” “… If you

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Kyla on the Jas Johal Show: Should the government force car manufacturers to limit max speeds on cars?

Sep 15 2023

“I am supportive of this. I think it’s an easy way for government to limit people’s speeds and make the roads and highways safer, but doesn’t result in hitting people in their pocketbooks and increasing the penalties associated with traffic tickets which can have a disproportionate effect on low income (families).” … “Ultimately we don’t

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Kyla Lee on CBC’s On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Soapbox Social: Chinatown festival stabbing, B.C. United on decriminalization

Sep 15 2023

Kyla Lee and Mo Amir weigh in on B.C. Premier David Eby’s comments following the stabbing in Chinatown, B.C. United’s plans to reverse decriminalization if elected, and the worst place to give a political speech. “A complete overhaul of the system is definitely not required in this case. This is a one-off. There are lots

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Kyla Lee in The Daily Hive: Fatally fast: Should the government force manufacturers to limit max speeds on cars?

Sep 14 2023

Speeding is one of the most significant factors involved in traffic fatalities, so should the Canadian government consider ordering manufacturers to lower the maximum speeds on their cars? Every so often, either a municipal police detachment or a force like the BC Highway Patrol will put out a release about speeding drivers. In response to a

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Kyla Lee on Radio NL News Mornings with Jeff & Bill: UBC Okanagan ordered to pay $50,000 in sexual assault discrimination case

Sep 11 2023

“I think part of the problem… is that the university was really looking at sexual assault from a university perspective or a high-level academic perspective… And they lost sight of the human element and in particular the unique humanity that Miss Hale had as a survivor of sexual assault. They forgot that the should take

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