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[B][U]Trans Spotting[/U][/B] [I]For the most overrepresented group among street level sex workers, who already suffer higher rates of unemployment and discrimination, life just got way more dangerous.[/I] By Naomi Sayers | December 10, 2014 [URL="https://nowtoronto.com/news/features/trans-spotting/"]https://nowtoronto.com/news/features/trans-spotting/[/URL] [QUOTE] Last summer, the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights (JUST) listened to witnesses from across the country on the potential harmful impacts the feds' new prostitution laws would have on the lives of women. Monica Forrester was among the few sex workers invited to speak to the committee, but she couldn't attend because she was supporting a friend, also a sex worker, who had been arrested under the law that was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada in December 2013 - the same law the Supreme Court gave the government one year to fix. Justice Minister Peter Mackay said the resulting Protection Of Communities And Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA), Bill C-36, was the government's only option. He went on to say that the bill "recognizes that victims of prostitution are manyâ?¦ they are vulnerable people" and that the "persons who sell their own sexual services are prostitution's primary victims." Yet the PCEPA enacts laws very similar to the ones that were struck down. Specifically, the PCEPA recriminalizes the lives of the most vulnerable and marginalized involved in the sex trade, trans sex workers. The new law fails to address their lived reality. Monica Forrester's submission to the committee sheds light on that reality. "A lot of trans women like me, because they don't have basic human rights, can't find jobs," she says. [URL="https://nowtoronto.com/news/features/trans-spotting/"]Read Moreâ?¦[/URL] [/QUOTE]

[B][U]Prostitution Law Ignores Societal Roots of Violence[/U][/B] By Julie Kaye | December 11, 2014 [URL="http://www.thestarphoenix.com/life/Prostitution+ignores+societal+roots+violence/10458631/story.html"]http://www.thestarphoenix.com/life/Prostitution+ignores+societal+roots+violence/10458631/story.html[/URL] [QUOTE] [B][I]Kaye is an assistant professor of sociology and director of community engaged research at The King's University in Edmonton.[/I][/B] The Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act came into effect Dec. 6 to replace the laws struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada's Bedford case. The decision emphasized that prostitution laws must not violate the safety and security rights of sex workers. Yet the question of their safety and security remains irrelevant for many advocates of the new law, who argue that prostitution is an inherent form of violence and that sex-trade industries must be abolished. For such advocates, the over-representation of indigenous women as "victims of sex trafficking" was seen as an important justification for the new legislation. Yet, far from addressing sex trafficking, this new law adds to a long and destructive string of government responses to violence against indigenous women that not only fails to prevent such violence, but also perpetuates harm. Premier Kathleen Wynne of Ontario is right to raise concern about the effects of the new law on "those who are most vulnerable," and to ask the Ontario attorney general to advise on the constitutionality of the law. Anti-trafficking advocates argue for the criminalization of sex industries, particularly purchasers of sex, to protect women from violence. But criminalization does not address societal vulnerabilities or the reality that violence is rooted in multiple and overlapping systems of domination that produce spaces of dehumanizing poverty, restricted choice, isolation and commodification. Rather than reduce violence, criminalization reproduces another version of a long history of colonial state violence executed against indigenous women "for their own good." This includes responses to missing and murdered indigenous women that do little more than increase police powers, despite demonstrated failures of the criminal justice system and significant mistrust of police by indigenous women [URL="http://www.thestarphoenix.com/life/Prostitution+ignores+societal+roots+violence/10458631/story.html"]Read Moreâ?¦[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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Both [URL="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/07/09/fred-hahn-sex-workers-deserve-the-same-protections-as-all-other-workers/"]CUPE[/URL] and [URL="http://www.opseu.org/news/national-day-remembrance-and-action-violence-against-women-december-6-2014"]OPSEU[/URL] have come out in favour of decriminalization of sex work over the last year. These are very welcome allies to have, since we view sexwork as labour/work. Here is a statement/announcement from the OPSEU Women's Committee: [URL="http://www.opseu.org/news/international-day-end-violence-against-sex-workers-december-17-2014"]http://www.opseu.org/news/international-day-end-violence-against-sex-workers-december-17-2014[/URL] [QUOTE] The International Day to End Violence against Sex Workers is observed annually on December 17 by sex workers, advocates, friends, families and allies. The day calls attention to hate crimes committed against sex workers worldwide, as well as the need to remove the social stigma and discrimination which contributes to violence against sex workers. Incorporated into this day is the red umbrella which is a recognized international symbol of Sex Worker solidarity and resistance. On this day, the Provincial Womenâ??s committee calls attention to legislation enacted by the Federal government on December 6, that puts the lives of sex workers at risk. The Canadian government enacted Bill C-36, the erroneously-named Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, which recreates the harms and violence experienced by sex workers under the previous laws criminalizing prostitution. Bill C-36 replaces the three key provisions of the Criminal Code that were struck down by the Supreme Court on December 20, 2014 in the landmark case, Bedford v. Canada. The Bill recreates the harms of the provisions struck down in the Bedford case, allowing the epidemic of violence against sex workers to continue. Bill C-36 views all sex workers as victims of violence, rather than understanding that it is criminalization, isolation, and the denial of rights and freedoms that breeds violence and exploitation against sex workers. In solidarity with sex workers around the globe, the PWC calls for the full decriminalization of sex work to ensure the safety, dignity and security of all sex workers and in recognition that enforcement disproportionately targets Black, Indigenous, Migrant, Trans women and street based sex workers. The PWC stands in solidarity with sex workers in calling for : The repeal of Bill C-36 and the full decriminalization of sex work in Canada [LIST] [*]Legal and labour rights for sex workers [/LIST] [LIST] [*]Provincial and Municipal non-enforcement of C-36 [/LIST] [LIST] [*]The de-stigmatization of sex work [/LIST] [LIST] [*]The recognition of the dignity and value of sex workers [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

[B][U]Silencing The Sex Workers[/U][/B] By Marni Soupcoff | December 11, 2013 [URL="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/12/11/marni-soupcoff-silencing-the-sex-workers/"]http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/12/11/marni-soupcoff-silencing-the-sex-workers/[/URL] [QUOTE] Under the federal governmentâ??s new prostitution laws, the advertising of sexual services in print or online is now illegal â?? at least for anyone but sex workers themselves. That means itâ??s against the law for newspapers, websites, magazines and the like to run ads for paid sex. Given that few sex workers own their own newspapers, this law pretty much amounts to a complete publication ban on such advertising. The governmentâ??s justification is that these ads create demand for prostitution. (Who wants to break it to them that engaging in sexual activity for payment predates the printing press by just a tad?) The problem is that the Supreme Court struck down Canadaâ??s previous prostitution laws because they violated sex workersâ?? Section 7 Charter right to security of the person. By forcing prostitutes to conduct business covertly â?? outside in alleyways, with little opportunity to screen potential customers â?? the laws against solicitation greatly increased the risk to sex workersâ?? health and safety. We can debate the policy and moral considerations behind how, and how much, to regulate the sex trade. And we will not soon run out of possible ways to balance the competing goals of protecting individuals from exploitation and maintaining individualsâ?? freedom to engage in sex and commerce as consenting adults. [URL="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/12/11/marni-soupcoff-silencing-the-sex-workers/"]Read Moreâ?¦[/URL] [/QUOTE]

[B][U]House of Commons is No Place for the Morality Squad[/U][/B] By Toula Drimonis [URL="https://ricochet.media/en/254/house-of-commons-is-no-place-for-the-morality-squad"]https://ricochet.media/en/254/house-of-commons-is-no-place-for-the-morality-squad[/URL] [QUOTE] While many were sorrowfully commemorating the 25th anniversary of the shooting of 14 women at Ã?cole Polytechnique this past Dec. 6, controversial anti-prostitution Bill C-36, now the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, quietly came into effect. The new legislation, which makes it even harder for sex workers to protect themselves, came into full force on a day that has been designated as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. Similar in moralizing tone to the recently introduced [URL="https://ricochet.media/en/180/conservatives-grandstanding-with-law-against-barbaric-practices"]Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Bill[/URL], C-36 has been widely criticized by sex workersâ?? advocacy groups for putting them and others in danger. Harperâ??s Conservative government seems to excel at enacting legislation that sounds like itâ??s taking a firm stance on something, while actually doing nothing. Justice Minister Peter MacKay, who is is deluded enough to believe that he can eradicate the worldâ??s oldest profession, has stated in no uncertain terms that the goal of the bill is to reduce and eventually abolish prostitution. Itâ??s supremely irresponsible to focus on wishful thinking instead of concrete ways to protect sex workers in todayâ??s reality. As it stands, the law now criminalizes the purchase of sex but not the act of selling it. Itâ??s meant to discourage and criminalize those who advertise for or request sex, by targeting johns and the pimps who sell and profit from prostitution, rather than the prostitutes themselves. It also makes it illegal to sell sexual services in public spaces where those under the age of 18 could be present. Offenders could face a maximum of five years in prison. So while MacKay says the bill does not target prostitutes, they could face prosecution. [URL="https://ricochet.media/en/254/house-of-commons-is-no-place-for-the-morality-squad"]Read Moreâ?¦[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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[B][U]â??Devastatedâ?? former sex worker on the problems with Canadaâ??s new prostitution law[/U][/B] By Thandi Fletcher | December 8, 2014 [URL="http://metronews.ca/voices/opinion/1234276/former-sex-worker-on-the-problems-with-canadas-new-prostitution-law/"]http://metronews.ca/voices/opinion/1234276/former-sex-worker-on-the-problems-with-canadas-new-prostitution-law/[/URL] [QUOTE] When Kerry Porth worked in the sex trade a decade ago, she says she never encountered a situation where she felt in danger. Although she struggled with severe drug addiction, poverty and occasional homelessness at the time, Porth credits her ability to stay out of harmâ??s way with being able to work from home, where her partner was always nearby. â??I think that speaks to the value of being able to work indoors and have someone there to protect you,â? she said. Porth, now an advocate for sex workersâ?? rights and a board member for Vancouverâ??s Pivot Legal Aid Society, fears Bill C-36, Canadaâ??s new prostitution law, will compromise the safety of those still working in the sex trade. â??Iâ??m pretty devastated about it,â? said Porth, who appeared before the House justice committee in July to speak out against the new legislation. â??This bill is really going to place sex workers in further harm.â? Justice Minister Peter MacKay has said that once passed into law, the prostitution bill will mean safer conditions for sex workers. But for Porth, the claim is laughable. Over the past year, she and others have worked tirelessly to convince government of the link between criminalization of prostitution and violence against sex workers. She said the new law will make prostitution more dangerous by driving sex work into the shadows, rushing communication with clients and preventing sex workers from properly screening clients. For sex workers who operate indoors, she said, the new law makes it difficult for them to advertise their services, forcing them to place vague classifieds. â??They canâ??t be explicit about what acts theyâ??re willing to perform,â? she said, adding that this could drive some sex workers to the street in search of new clients. The new law also heightens safety risks for street-level sex workers. Under the new law, she said sex workers wouldnâ??t be inclined to work in well-lit areas because clients will want to avoid police detection. Already, she said, her fears are being realized. The day Bill C-36 received royal assent, Porth said a sex-worker friend told her three clients had refused to provide their real names and phone numbers. â??Those are essential screening techniques that sex workers employ,â? she said. â??Clients are going to be really leery about complying with screening techniques when they fear thereâ??s a police officer on the other end of the phone.â? [B]Old vs. New[/B] Last December the Supreme Court of Canada threw out existing prostitution laws, saying they violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Under the old law, buying and selling sex was legal, but activities around it were illegal. The key difference under the new legislation is that selling sex remains legal but buying sex, and communications around buying sex, will be against the law. [LIST] [*]It is now legal to communicate with the intention of selling sex in some circumstances. This is a change from the previous laws, which made it illegal to negotiate the sale of sex in any public place. [/LIST] [LIST] [*]It is now illegal to sell sex in public view or next to a school ground, playground or daycare centre. [/LIST] [LIST] [*]It is now legal, technically, to advertise your own services, but illegal to advertise the sale of othersâ?? sexual services. [/LIST] [LIST] [*]It is against the law to benefit materially from another personâ??s sex work, with some exceptions. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

[B][U]Prostitution Laws a Mess in this Country[/U][/B] MADELINE ASHBY | December 9, 2014 [URL="http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/ashby-prostitution-laws-a-mess-in-this-country"]http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/ashby-prostitution-laws-a-mess-in-this-country[/URL] [QUOTE] After weeks of campaigning from activists in the womenâ??s rights and sex workersâ?? rights communities, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has set her sights on Bill C-36, the Tory-led legislation that was ostensibly intended to answer the Supreme Court of Canadaâ??s ruling that laws against prostitution are unconstitutional. She has asked Ontario Attorney General Madeleine Meilleur to advise her on the constitutionality of the law, which went into effect this week. Under the Courts of Justice Act, Wynne can instruct prosecutors not to enforce the law until its constitutionality is determined. In [URL="http://nowtoronto.com/news/premier-wynne-blasts-bill-c36/â??"]her statement[/URL], Wynne said that her â??priority in this debate is to ensure that our laws and institutions enhance the safety of those who are vulnerable â?? in this case, sex workers: a class of (mostly) women, who are disproportionately the victims of sexual and physical violence. So I believe that there is merit in considering whether the Conservative governmentâ??s new legislation meets that test.â? Wynne joins a growing list of policymakers and advocates who are skeptical of the law, including 25 Toronto city councillors and editor and CEO of NOW Magazine Alice Klein, who [URL="http://nowtoronto.com/news/now-statement-on-canada%27s-new-anti-prostitution-laws/â??"]stated[/URL] that her publication would not be obeying the lawâ??s prohibitions on the advertising of sexual services. â??There is a high price to be paid for resisting the norms of stigmatization and sexual shaming,â? she said. â??Those in sex work truly bear the brunt of this price. It took 10 years and a very real body count of murdered women and tragic violence to win the constitutional challenge that overturned the laws last year.â? [URL="http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/ashby-prostitution-laws-a-mess-in-this-country"]Read More...[/URL] [/QUOTE]

[B][U]This Prostitution Law is About Protecting Votes, not Women[/U][/B] [I]By Devon Black | Dec 9, 2014 8:57 pm[/I] [URL="http://www.ipolitics.ca/2014/12/09/this-prostitution-law-is-about-protecting-votes-not-women/"]http://www.ipolitics.ca/2014/12/09/this-prostitution-law-is-about-protecting-votes-not-women/[/URL] [QUOTE] Itâ??s always fascinating when what looks like a political slam-dunk to one set of people ends up looking, to another set, like the clumsiest of blunders. On Dec. 6, the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act received royal assent. This event was noteworthy for two reasons: It meant that the prostitution laws overturned by the Supreme Court in the Bedford case had been replaced, and theyâ??d been replaced on the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. To Conservatives, this probably seemed like a pretty slick move. After all, theyâ??ve been selling the new legislation as the best way to protect women who are abused and made vulnerable by prostitution. What could be a better symbol than making this bill into law on the very day Canadians have set aside to support an end to violence against women? The only problem is that sex workers â?? you know, the people actually affected by this new law â?? say that this legislation [URL="https://nowtoronto.com/news/feds-new-prostitution-law-raises-safety-issues/"]will just go back to making sex work dangerous for the people who do it.[/URL] For the government to grant royal assent to this bill on December 6 was an imperious dismissal of those genuine concerns for the safety of everyone who does sex work. [URL="http://www.ipolitics.ca/2014/12/09/this-prostitution-law-is-about-protecting-votes-not-women/"]Read More...[/URL] [/QUOTE]

[B][U]Ex-Toronto cop appeals conviction for massage worker sex assault[/U][/B] [I]Michele Mandel | Tuesday December 9 - 9:12 PM[/I] [URL="http://m.torontosun.com/2014/12/09/toronto-cop-appeals-conviction-for-massage-worker-sex-assault"]http://m.torontosun.com/2014/12/09/toronto-cop-appeals-conviction-for-massage-worker-sex-assault[/URL] [QUOTE]More than four years after sexually assaulting a frightened massage worker, former Toronto cop Mandip Sandhu was back in court trying to appeal his conviction and his unusually tough jail sentence. Because no police officer wants to take his chances in prison. Sandhu had offered a novel defence when he went on trial â?? even though it was common police practice to work as pairs, the then 37-year-old was conducting a solo bylaw inspection of a North York spa in June 2010 when [B]the immigrant massage worker fellated him against his will.[/B] And despite his badge, his gun and his bigger size, Sandhu didnâ??t manage to stop her. He was shocked, he said. â??I was not expecting anything like that to happen. But I did nothing to stop it. It was a lapse in judgment.â? But Ontario Court Judge John Moore believed the victimâ??s more credible story: That Sandhu had recorded her name and information in his police memo book to intimidate her and then forced her to perform oral sex. The compelling evidence against him was not only her testimony, but his DNA found in the semen she had spit into a washcloth and the notes found in his office drawer at 31 Division where her name, date of birth and home address had been written and then crossed out. â??To suggest that (Sandhu), a 12-year veteran who is larger, stronger, armed, a police officer while on duty and in the lawful execution of that duty is somehow rendered helpless and hopeless in the hands of (the massage worker) defies the boundaries of common sense and credulity. The suggestion is preposterous, ludicrous and beyond belief,â? Moore said in his reasons for judgment in February 2013. Sentenced in June 2013 to 15 months imprisonment, Sandhu has been free on bail pending his appeal. Sitting with several supporters, he listened intently as his lawyer, Alan Gold, pleaded his case: That the trial judge should not have admitted the evidence from his seized notebook because it violated his Charter right to privacy and his right against self-incrimination and were illegally handed over to the Special Investigations Unit. And because the warrant to seize his DNA referenced the notebook, it should be thrown out as well, his lawyer told Superior Court Justice Brian Oâ??Marra. The trial judge had ruled these werenâ??t really police notes but Sandhuâ??s way of intimidating his victim into performing the sex act and because they were â??a potential instrumentâ? of his crime, they werenâ??t protected under the Charter. Moore also found that while thereâ??s a police regulation that officers under investigation donâ??t have to turn their notes about the incident over to the SIU, these scratched out notations of her name and address didnâ??t fall within the definition of â??police notes.â? Sandhuâ??s lawyer insisted the judge erred on both counts and his mistakes were â??so significantâ? that a new trial must be held. â??The judge didnâ??t do the best job of judging,â? Gold said. â??My client didnâ??t get the trial to which he was entitled.â? Crown attorney John McInnes disagreed. Writing the victimâ??s name and address in his memo book canâ??t be classified as official police notes, he said, especially when it was followed by oral sex that was â??clearly not part of the duties of a police officer by any stretch.â? Even if the judge refuses to quash his conviction or order a new trial, Sandhu wants to do his time in the community and not in jail. His lawyer complained that his 15-month sentence is a harsh and excessive punishment given that he â??was dismissed from the police force and has no other skills, training or means of financially supporting his family,â? he and his family have suffered extreme public shame and humiliation, and he faces physical harm if heâ??s incarcerated. But the prosecutor says house arrest just doesnâ??t go far enough to reflect societyâ??s interest in denunciation and deterrence. And heâ??s right â?? a police officer who breaches his position of authority to violate a vulnerable member of the public deserves to go where the other criminals go â?? and thatâ??s directly to jail. Oâ??Marra has reserved his decision. [/QUOTE]

Alice Klein was on CBC's As it Happens tonight to discuss the story. Listen here: http://www.cbc.ca/player/AudioMobile/As+It+Happens/ID/2631195650/ Now Magazine's defiance of the new law really interests and intrigues me. It will be most interesting to see where it goes. It could end up being really meaningful. Of course it's based upon their own self interests as a business, but it's completely possible to be concerned about one's own image and bottom line while also simultaneously taking relevant and consequential actions to achieve a larger goal. All corporate philanthropy is based in this premise. We can help ourselves by helping each other, etc.