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.
Canadian History Shows that Sex Workers Usually Get the Short End of the Stick
Margaret Ross Late one evening in January 1923, police descended on Millie Jones’s bawdy house at 757 Mercer Street in Windsor, Ontario. She was forty-eight years old, and ran the house with her husband, George.[1] The couple was Black, and they employed two other Black women. The entire group was arrested, including two clients who were being entertained at the… Read more »
The Madam Who Shot the Mountie: How a brothel-keeper in 1880s Edmonton crossed the law – and won
By Laurie Bertram This piece was first published in the University of Toronto Magazine. On May 23, 1889, a packed courtroom in Edmonton watched as “Big Nelly” Webb, the most famous woman in town, answered to the charge of shooting a member of the North West Mounted Police. Several months earlier, Constable Thomas Cairney had been found seriously wounded on… Read more »