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Kyla Lee

10 years

I've defended countless 90-day #IRP #DUI cases in BC. I have an unparalleled record of success. Call for a free consultation: 604-685-8889.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

2 years

Who else besides me will still be wearing their mask after tomorrow? Anyone?

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@IRPlawyer

2 years

I’m scared this is too hot a take and it’s going to go bad but Police who are refusing to enforce the law because they support the protestors should be relieved of their duty, as they would be if they refused to enforce any other law due to political or personal disagreement.

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@IRPlawyer

8 months

You’re welcome internet.

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@IRPlawyer

3 years

Mr. Rogers says to look for the helpers. Every one of you who rushed out to get the #AstraZenaca vaccine today when it opened to 40+ is a helper, and I see you and love you.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

3 years

Let’s not talk about how this guy is some rich privileged queue jumper. Let’s talk about how this is the very definition of systemic racism in action: a person feels empowered to use their wealth and privilege to steal from Indigenous communities.

Canadian mogul fined after getting Covid vaccine meant for Indigenous residents

Rodney Baker and his wife travelled to remote community of 100 in Yukon territory and claimed to be workers at a local motel

www.theguardian.com

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@IRPlawyer

4 years

I'm not sure what I can say to young people - people MY AGE - but please, please, please don't treat this disease like it's something you can recover from. I had a mild case as the definition goes and am experiencing long term after-effects. Stay home. Wear a mask. Please.

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@IRPlawyer

3 years

Because we haven’t been told to smile by a man in 15 months.

CTV News

@CTVNews

3 years

Women twice as likely as men to continue wearing masks as Canada reopens: survey

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

4 years

Pleased to say that I am now more than 24 hours symptom-free. No more cough, fever, headache, sore throat, or shortness of breath.

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@IRPlawyer

2 years

I see no reason why Randy Hillier and Candice Bergen cannot be arrested for their involvement here. There is precedent for arresting MPs at protests. @ElizabethMay was arrested, charged, and pled guilty to criminal contempt. Proudly, I should add.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

2 years

Can we not all just agree that saying fuck is part of the Canadian identity now and get over politicians using it the same way we all use it?

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@IRPlawyer

3 years

Jagmeet Singh is wealthy. Annamie Paul is wealthy. Erin O’Toole is wealthy. Justin Trudeau is wealthy. Yves-Francois Blanchet is wealthy. Here’s the gag: politicians have to be wealthy to become a party leader in order to bypass all the hurdles.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

2 years

If Lich is denied bail, I will make a Holy Spirit Activate TikTok video.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

4 years

So Chrystia Freeland is now also the Finance Minister which is great, but I cant help but grumble at the fact that people truly expect one woman to just do all the things AS USUAL.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

4 years

If you are arrested for peacefully protesting anywhere in BC today, please call me for free legal advice. Myself and @PaulDoroshenko will provide pro bono representation for any charges stemming from peaceful protesting, including bail hearings. 604-685-8889.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

3 months

Pierre Poilievre says that he will "axe the [carbon] tax" so fast that people will look up and see prices falling at the gas station ... like gas companies won't keep the prices the same and pocket the difference as profit.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

3 years

What’s the term for when you articulate an idea in a meeting and then a man articulates the same idea and the man gets credit.

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@IRPlawyer

3 years

If the United States Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade we’re gonna need to open the borders back up because me and every other woman I know are gonna start an abortion bus service. Btw other women I’m hoping you’re on board.

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@IRPlawyer

4 years

Last night I got a really good sleep. Only woke up with breathing trouble twice. Still continuing on my "take it easy" plan for today. I think I might finally be turning the corner here.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

4 years

There's a case of COVID-19 on Haida Gwaii. Why couldn't people just leave the community alone. I own property there and I stayed away. Visitors and fishing charters should have done the same. Ugh.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

4 years

The latest in summer #legal fashions. Forget robes. #lawyertoldmenottotalktoyou masks are all the rage.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

4 years

So on Instagram someone accused me of doing an “impression” of an Indigenous person by posting a photo in my Métis sash on Indigenous Peoples Day. And that’s the special type of racism you get when you’re a light-skinned Métis person.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

2 years

To all my dear friends who are counter-protesting today, remember these important rules: 1. Wear your mask. It’s harder to get doxxed by Nazis or identified by alt-right if they can’t see your face. Also, it will piss off the other protesters.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

4 years

After having COVID in March, I did not think I had any long-term health consequences other than a little shortness of breath. Of course, like everything with COVID, we still barely know anything. And I barely know what it has done to my body.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

3 years

Please excuse my silence on the Kamloops Residential School. I simply can’t find words.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

5 years

My name is Kyla Lee. I am a lawyer. I have been called to the bar for over 7 years. And this morning, on the court break, I walked right into a glass door in the courtroom.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

3 years

VACCINATED!

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@IRPlawyer

2 years

Petition to make it a criminal offence to talk on your phone on speakerphone in a public place.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

3 years

Caught my neighbour dumping his trash into my green bin. He didn’t see me watch him do it or try to wave him down to remove it. I took it out (metal tins don’t go in green bins) and left it on his car so he can dispose of it lawfully. People can be so rude.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

4 years

So does anyone else wake up in the morning and have a few moments where they think everything is totally normal, before they remember what's actually happening in the world? It's like Groundhog Day.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

2 years

Oh no I made the convoy people mad by… *checks notes* …exercising my freedoms.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

3 years

Today is a bad #LongCovid day. I can barely get out of bed. Fever won’t go away, even with Tylenol. Eyes don’t focus or stay open. Lots of pain in my neck, my wrists, and my knees. Send chocolate cake pls.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

2 years

Currently in court watching an articled student argue the other side of a case I'm on, in an area of law about which I wrote the leading textbook, in front of a seasoned judge. She's doing wonderfully and it is such a pleasure to watch young future lawyers excel.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

4 years

It’s Eating Disorder Awareness Week… and I am coming out

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

3 years

What exactly would @jjhorgan do if he wasn’t on vacation? Fly around giving platitudes? He has a Public Safety Minister for a reason. I don’t get the outrage.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

3 years

I can only hope this vaccine clotting issue sparks a revolution in how people think of women’s health issues, especially the expendability of women’s bodies as objects of sex and birth control as the facilitator of that. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

2 years

Okay well enough of this. I’m going to go be mildly inconvenienced by wearing a KN95 mask into a restaurant, mildly inconvenienced by showing my vaccine card, and have a nice meal with a vaxxed, masked friend, surrounded by vaxxed, masked people. The oppression of it all!

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

4 years

Once again, Wrigley wins Halloween.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

3 years

If anything, Doug Ford, Jason Kenney, and Donald Trump demonstrate that if you’re a white man you can literally be anything regardless of talent, skill, or ability.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

3 years

Can we just be clear that when people say they want to "defend free speech" what they really mean is the right to spread disinformation, misinformation, to misgender, deadname, and to engage in hate speech. Because from what I can see there are no real attacks on free speech.

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@IRPlawyer

3 years

I’m a little emotional right now. My grandma, whom I have only seen through plexiglass in the last year, is going to be able to book her vaccine tomorrow.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

5 years

Say it with me folks, THIS DOESN’T HAPPEN TO MEN.

Online trolls are harassing a scientist who helped take the first picture of a black hole

Black holes don’t suck, but sometimes the internet does

www.theverge.com

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

3 years

Thanks assholes. Christmas is cancelled.

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@IRPlawyer

3 years

Is anyone else weirdly emotional at this inauguration, or is it just me that's completely exhausted from being terrified for the last four years?

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@IRPlawyer

2 years

Since travel is about to open up again, I am announcing my campaign for 2 security lines at the airport. One for people who are fast, organized, and know what they are doing. One for people who have 8 laptops, don’t know whether shoes go on or off, and fail to remove liquids.

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@IRPlawyer

2 years

Whenever my mask pops under my nose (like when I take off my sweater or bump my face) I am acutely aware of this. On that basis, I can only conclude that those walking around with masks under their noses are well aware and just do not care.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

4 years

He did not exit the driver’s side. You can’t detain the passenger of a vehicle for something done by the driver. This is bullshit. They’ve been lying that he was detained this whole time.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

2 years

Hear me out: a third crossing between Vancouver and North Vancouver.

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@IRPlawyer

3 years

Hey y'all when we talk about Rodney Baker and his wife stealing vaccines from Indigenous people can we not refer to her as a "trophy wife" or "child" or anything like that? She's a grown-ass woman in her 30s and just as morally culpable and let's not invoke sexist tropes, okay?

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@IRPlawyer

3 years

GUESS WHO’S GOT A VACCINE APPOINTMENT?

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@IRPlawyer

4 years

As much as it pains me to say this, we need to close bars, restaurants, and nightclubs again. My income depends in large part on these places running. But enough is enough. The public exposures are at these places. The drinking leads to partying. The partying leads to cases.

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@IRPlawyer

4 years

I debated sharing this but some smart people said it was a good idea. When I had my virtual doctor appointment yesterday, I was told I have #COVID19 . I won’t be tested because of guidelines, but with my symptoms and travel history it’s a forgone conclusion.

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@IRPlawyer

4 years

This woman is a goddess and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

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@jayfarnold

4 years

BRILLIANT. Did not expect that... 🏆👑❤️

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

3 years

You don’t need a mask mandate to be smart about safety. There’s no mandate to make you brush your teeth, but you still do that.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

6 years

I own a parking lot in Downtown Merritt. If the high school students want to paint the whole lot rainbow, I’ll let them and I’ll even donate to the cost of the paint. Who do I talk to for this to happen?

High school students' proposal for rainbow crosswalk rejected by Merritt, B.C., city council | CBC...

The Merritt school district's wish for a rainbow crosswalk, in solidarity with the high school's diverse student population, has been rejected by city council.

www.cbc.ca

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

4 years

When this is all over, can we put a statue of @DrBonnieHenry where the John A. MacDonald statue used to be?

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

3 years

There’s no point discussing driving laws with cyclists on this platform. No matter what you say, you will be attacked. I put myself here to explain the law to people as a public service, for free. I’m not going to be called names for it. Don’t like the law, don’t @ me.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

3 years

I am pleased to be one of several Indigenous lawyers running for Bencher this upcoming election. What a massive change over the last election! Join me in supporting all Indigenous candidates who are running, and in applauding all those who put their names forward!

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

9 months

As your constituency burns from climate-change caused fires, you may want to tweet something like "I am here to help. Follow the evacuation orders. Stay safe." But what do I know. I'm not a politician.

Tracy Gray

@TracyGrayKLC

9 months

Canadians cannot afford Trudeau's carbon tax. It's time to axe the tax and bring home lower prices.

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@IRPlawyer

3 years

Here's a leader of a federal political party stating that no person with a criminal record should get a vaccine before healthcare workers or vulnerable Canadians. And, frankly, it's disgusting.

Erin O'Toole

@erinotoole

3 years

Not one criminal should be vaccinated ahead of any vulnerable Canadian or front line health worker.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

4 years

Literally one year we asked you to stay home for Easter. You didn’t. One year we asked you to stay home for Canada Day. You didn’t. One year we asked you to stay home for Thanksgiving. You still didn’t. And now Hallowe’en? How spoiled and entitled and selfish are you?

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@IRPlawyer

3 years

And that’s why you take AZ if it’s offered to you first and don’t hold out for Pfizer or Moderna.

Daniele Hamamdjian

@DHamamdjian

3 years

No covid-related deaths reported in England today. ZERO.

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@IRPlawyer

4 years

She kept her distance, washed her hands, ‘and I still got sick,’ says lawyer with presumptive case of coronavirus

She kept her distance, washed her hands, ‘and I still got sick,’ says lawyer with presumptive case...

Vancouver lawyer Kyla Lee went to Ohio last week for a conference. This week she was diagnosed with COVID-19, and she says everyone must take the pandemic seriously.

www.thestar.com

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@IRPlawyer

4 years

Hey @jjhorgan maybe in addition to getting celebrities to give us “stay home” messages you could get @netflix to open their US library in Canada during the pandemic?

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@IRPlawyer

3 years

Dear Twitter: You are all invited to my Christmas party, one year from Friday this week. Food and booze provided. I hope you all can make it. It’s going to be a blast.

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@IRPlawyer

3 years

Someone said I need a man in my life. I have one. And he’s the cutest.

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@IRPlawyer

3 years

Going out tonight for the first time in… a long time. Is this how I dress??

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@IRPlawyer

3 years

I had Pfizer for my first dose and Moderna for my second dose. If you're worried about mixing and matching doses, feel free to ask me anything. I'm still alive.

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@IRPlawyer

3 years

THEY’RE HERE! My two books arrived and boy howdy is it exciting to see something you wrote show up and look so damn beautiful.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

2 years

I believe this is freedom of expression and peaceful protest in action.

Jennifer Kettenacker

@JenniferKetten1

2 years

Lol well played

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

2 years

Yeah yeah yeah politicians lie. But I really dislike that politicians suffer no consequences for making up completely fake constituents in bogus scenarios in order to undermine confidence in police investigations. That’s an attack on the administration of justice.

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@IRPlawyer

2 years

I heard the RCMP horses are actually Trojan vaccine horses, from which at some point millions of vaccines will come pouring out, jabbing the protesters.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

4 years

Thank you to everyone reaching out and wishing me well. I can’t reply to all your comments but I am reading and they are really cheering me up. ❤️

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@IRPlawyer

2 years

Here’s what I find ironic about anti-vaxx police.

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@IRPlawyer

4 years

Anyone who thinks anti-Chinese racism is not high after #coronavirus explain to me another reason why I - last name Lee - flying from Vancouver, was asked 85 billion times about whether I’d been to mainland China recently and selected by the airline for “addditional screening.”

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

3 years

Y’all... look at my mom 41 years apart. Nothing has changed... well, the cap may be a little askew.

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@IRPlawyer

4 years

I don’t care for her or her politics but she, like any woman, can wear whatever the heck she wants.

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@IRPlawyer

2 years

These people are literally planning to go to 24 Sussex to throw out Trudeau. Because they have the “brains and intellect” to form government. Even though that’s not how you form government and also not where Trudeau has been living. Now they’re asking where Pat King is.

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@IRPlawyer

2 years

6. Watch over those with less privilege than you. Keep an eye on your friends of colour, your queer friends, your Indigenous friends, women, Jewish people, etc. Make sure they have space to be heard but also are not being targeted by the other side. Call out racism and hate.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

7 months

I think I did a darn good job.

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

3 years

Today’s my nine-year anniversary of becoming a lawyer. And while I cannot provide any context to this photo right now, I can say that I did not see myself here back in 2012.

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@IRPlawyer

2 years

@ButNotTheCity they only date non-binary people?

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Kyla Lee

@IRPlawyer

4 years

It’s official! I am running to be a Bencher for the Law Society of B.C.. I had to wait to see if my health would allow me to do a campaign but since I beat #COVID19 , I figure I can do anything! Watch for information on my upcoming Zoom Town Hall and platform. #kylaforbencher

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@IRPlawyer

4 years

If you can’t kick the homophobes off the ticket, you can’t persuade me to vote for you.

BC Liberal candidate votes against rainbow crosswalk in Langley Township

A BC Liberal candidate in Langley is stirring up controversy for a decision she made hours after she was appointed by the party.

bc.ctvnews.ca

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@IRPlawyer

2 years

This is... totally bonkers over the top and not necessary degrading dehumanizing and wrong. I'm embarrassed for this city.

tyson singh kelsall ਟਾਈਸਨ ਸਿੰਘ

@tyssingh

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Main & Hastings right now

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@IRPlawyer

4 years

I watched this video. She's in her bra, face down on the ground, handcuffed, and the officer puts her foot on her head when she tries to raise it. Maybe to breathe? Maybe to speak? Maybe to call a lawyer or ask for help? No matter what, that action was in no way justified.

Global BC

@GlobalBC

4 years

Kelowna, B.C., cop on desk duty after allegedly dragging nursing student down hallway

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@IRPlawyer

3 years

This is being a woman in an influential or public position. Eat a sandwich, get criticized.

Bob Mackin

@bobmackin

3 years

#ICYMI : Where @drBonnieHenry was on June 25, instead of coordinating the public health warning and response to #HeatDome that killed several hundred in B.C. #bcpoli

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@IRPlawyer

9 months

The number of people that honestly think arson is just magically on an exponential rise and that the spread and size of these fires has absolutely nothing to do with climate change…

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@IRPlawyer

2 years

Remember how we all collectively thought that no year could be worse than 2020?

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@IRPlawyer

4 years

This woman is my hero.

Alex Milsom

@alexmilsom

4 years

she didn’t just pull out a tape measure. she pulled out a tape measure ✨𝓲𝓷 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓱✨

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@IRPlawyer

4 years

In the Vancouver Stanley Cup riots, a lot of the decisions to charge/convict young, affluent, white people were made on the basis of participation in the riot. Even minor acts like throwing something or filming or cheering were considered to be participating in the riot.

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@IRPlawyer

4 months

Repeat after me: alcohol is a drug.

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@IRPlawyer

2 years

My 90-year old grandmother has COVID-19 so fuck you @jkenney and all the idiots in charge of lifting mandatory isolation for those with positive tests.

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@IRPlawyer

4 years

Since I think it's important to share my experiences with COVID, I also think it's important to share this. It may not be connected, but I have a really big feeling that it is. And others should know that this may happen to them too.

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@IRPlawyer

4 years

Mocking a lawyer for losing a case is unsavoury conduct. When Andrew Wilkinson was AG, there was a lawyer in his office who mocked and humiliated me on the basis of my gender, openly, in the hallway of the courthouse. I now see that this was conduct endorsed by his office. Awful.

Andrew Wilkinson 🇺🇦

@Wilkinson4BC

4 years

We will comply with requests from Mr. Justice Cullen rather than take worthless legal advice from @Dave_Eby who loses every time he goes to court. Where are the #NDP cabinet documents? #bcpoli @CKNW @steeletalk

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@IRPlawyer

2 years

These truckers may want to actually, like, read the constitution if they want to say they care so much about it.

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@IRPlawyer

3 years

The Johnson & Johnson 72% success rate is about the same as my law school grade average, and I turned out fine.

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@IRPlawyer

4 years

Cough until your throat swells and is sore and raw. Panic because you think you're dying. Get talked down from your anxiety attack by your mother. Keep coughing, because coughing prevents pneumonia. Cough. Cough. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

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@IRPlawyer

4 years

I am pleased to announce that I have just submitted my documents to run for Bencher in the Vancouver County by-election. #kylaforbencher

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@IRPlawyer

3 years

I do not want to be an essential worker in retail at a liquor store for the next 29 hours. It's going to be straight chaos.

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