sex trade

Update: The Ontario Court of Appeal has agreed to strike down two of the three laws pertaining to the sex trade that were declared unconstitutional by an Ontario Superior Court of Justice in 2010. The Court of Appeal found that the bans on bawdy houses and living off the avails of prostitution are unconstitutional, but agreed with the Crown that the open solicitation of prostitution should be illegal. The Criminal Code provisions that were judged unconstitutional will not be declared invalid for another 12 months, the Court ruled. That will give the Harper Conservatives time to draft new sex trade legislation.

Regina prof’s revelation highlights students in the sex trade

The Citizen‘s Dan Gardner is impatient with the columnists cawing against Justice Susan Himel’s prostitution ruling. This morning he exasperatedly tweeted at them that “You don’t have to agree. You do have to read”—that is, read what Himel wrote. I’m on Dan’s side in this debate, but, hey, isn’t he being a little unfair and obnoxious? Surely respectable writers like Daphne Bramham wouldn’t denounce the Himel decision in such strong terms without examining the evidence:

The Ontario Superior Court’s Charter finding against prostitution-related provisions of the Criminal Code has unexpectedly cast light on the new Alberta politics. The hard-charging Wildrose Alliance talks a good game when it comes to defending provincial rights; the logical corollary, one might suppose, would be for it to observe a dignified silence about matters reserved to the federal government. This is never how things work, of course, and the Alliance couldn’t move fast enough to issue a joint statement in the names of its two turncoat MLAs, Heather Forsyth and Rob Anderson.

New revelations show why he was able to prey with such impunity

The country’s sex workers generate 1.6 per cent of total GDP