sex work

The Conservatives’ Bill C-36 made it harder for sex workers to do their job safely—and despite their promises, the Liberals haven’t fixed the problem, either

What began as toxic culture in fringe spaces has metastasized into ideologies of violence, fuelled by the way men are socialized—and ideas like ‘sex redistribution’ won’t help

Even though Bill C-36 came into force last week, the debate is only getting more heated

Rachel Browne talks to researchers behind five-year study

Some Anglican clergy want the federal government to ditch its new prostitution law because it’s ‘immoral’

The exchange you can’t miss from this afternoon’s Question Period

Your daily dose of political theatre

Wendy Babcock was advocate for safer sex work

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.