Canada’s Sex Work Legislation Must Change
Sex workers’ lives are directly at risk because of C-36.
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Spotting the Difference: Comparing Canadian Sex Work Legislation from 1985 and 2014
The countless number of sex workers, organizations, and newspaper articles all argued the same underlying premise as they had with Bill C-49: that the government’s legislation endangers sex workers.
Canada’s Sex Work Legislation Hasn’t Changed
It is unsurprising that the Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform launched a constitutional challenge to the PCEPA in 2021- brought to the Ontario Superior Court between October 2 and 7, 2022.On September 18, 2023, the Ontario Superior Court released its decision in CASWLR v. Attorney General (Canada), deciding to uphold the PCEPA.
The Late 1980s Crisis in Toronto Public Housing: Disability and Danger
David M. K. Sheinin This is the first in a series of articles on Toronto public housing in the late 1980s. All entries in the series will be collected here. To protect their privacy, initials substitute for the names of residents who are or may still be alive. Language used on “disability” reflects terminology used in the 1980s. On May… Read more »
Did ChatGPT-4 attend my lecture?
Jim Clifford In the lead-up to my take-home exam last April, I was trying to think of questions ChatGPT could not answer. I hoped that by focusing on details from my lectures that are not available on Wikipedia and other similar online sources, the large language model would fail to provide a strong answer. I was dead wrong:
Bored Stiff: A Cranky Historian on ChatGPT
Edward Dunsworth Remember, not a game new under the sun Everything you did has already been done — Lauryn Hill, interpolating the book of Ecclesiastes I’m not worried about ChatGPT. Well, let me be more precise. I’m not worried about ChatGPT sparking a surge in undetectable student cheating, or writing better short stories than Alice Munro, or leading the Roombas… Read more »
Okay, ChatGPT: You’re Right. Now what?
by Carly Ciufo “Do museum workers do human rights work?” I ask ChatGPT. The artificial intelligence’s (AI) answer is longer and, honestly, more robust than I expect:
“No Historical Significance Found”: Clashing with ChatGPT
In this series, Active History editors are asking ChatGPT about their own areas of expertise and commenting on the process and answers. Sara Wilmshurst Unlike most of Active History’s editorial team, I’m currently neither a student nor an educator. I haven’t had to resist the temptation of assigning my work to artificial intelligence or had to bust students for succumbing… Read more »
Deindustrialization as Failed Postindustrial Transition
by Steven High We are living in polarized times. Brexit, Trump, and the rise of right-wing populism has led to a resurgence of popular and scholarly interest in working class history and the ways it gets entangled with race in the wider politics of economic change. There is much at stake given the looming global transition away from fossil fuels…. Read more »
The Politics of Deindustrialization in the ‘Birthplace of New Scotland’
by Peter Thompson Pictou is a sleepy town of about 3000 people on the north shore of Nova Scotia. Despite its small size and its place on Canada’s margins, Pictou has been featured twice in the pages of ActiveHistory.ca over the past decade. First in Lachlan MacKinnon’s 2014 piece, “The Power-Politics of Pulp and Paper: Health, Environment and Work in… Read more »