it's a separate law...part of the legacy of prohibition,etc....in BC it was enacted in 2007 and then revised and re-adopted in 2014....to add prostitution....fuckers...after the Forsaken report was written....the case for eviction is not based in the criminal code...it is the Community Safety...
this is the problem with the anti sex work laws as they stand in Canada....both of us are right....and the problem becomes the "discretion" of the person interpreting the laws....it is too open and too vague...
none the less....if any sex worker in BC is being exploited by their landlord or...
sorry, you are "totally wrong".... this is the crux of the arguments at the CHRC....they say it's decriminalized...they say we are free and have all the rights of other citizens...there are more than 169,000 sex workers in Canada.....but do we qualify for human rights? we will see.....
love susie
so...to be clear...the housing legislation - known as the "Community Safety Act" in BC - is not the criminal code...so is not related to criminalization. the criminal code states nothing about housing and sex work. We have recently finished a large project on this including a law, policy and...
So for clarification - All 45 police services and the RCMP have signed the "Lowest Level of Enforcement Policy" in BC....we already have defacto decriminalization here....the police only care about violence against sex workers and exploitation in particular of youth...adult consensual...
It has come to my attention that men are becoming victims of date rape drugs as part of ongoing robbery schemes in both civi bars and show lounges.... men are drugged, lead out of the bar, taken somewhere and then threatened or coerced into giving money or sharing their banking passwords....
I...
As I recall, this was a sex worker who escaped but you are right it should go out to all women....the police work hard on sex worker safety however and when they contact me it is to communicate with sex workers...hope that makes sense!
love susie
This is a result of Anti Human Trafficking measures....I have been fighting this for some time now....we maybe making some headway....time will tell I guess but more and more adult businesses and workers are being excluded from business tools including banking...
love susie
Sorry people,
2 of our presenters are ill and one cannot get out of bed so....we will hold the event at a later date in January instead.
Apologies to anyone who was planning to attend and we hope you will be able to make it in January.
love susie
Just found Bill C-63.....ffs....even my MP is being blind about the risk it poses to 170,000 sex workers in Canada (minimum number - published and peer reviewed research www.populationproject.ca )
We have to check every committee everyday pretty well and even then we miss things....
I could go...
This one is from the HUMA committee on Federal Housing Investments
https://www.ourcommons.ca/committees/en/HUMA/StudyActivity?studyActivityId=12622602
I wrote a brief to this as it was the time when housing exclusion was on the rise and provinces were adopting principles contained within the...
Then there is the work of the status of women committee....
https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/FEWO/Work
they discuss many things which impact sex workers and never include sex workers...like coercive control....- if my partner takes the money to the bank or does the banking on our behalf...
Sure.....
Bill S-210 - https://www.ourcommons.ca/committees/en/SECU/StudyActivity?studyActivityId=12521982
Harms Caused to Children, Women, and Men by the Ease of Access to, and Online Viewing of, Illegal Sexually Explicit Material...
the work for sex workers rights does not affect you....
all over the world sex worker organizations are under attack...cuts to funding if funded at all....and no major funders willing to "compromise" by being seen as "supporting" adult workers...you know ...whores are bad for the brand...
we...
As promised, here is the poster for the presentation about the work of the BC Coalition of Experiential Communities;
I will be speaking about the Housing Exclusion Project Report, the 8 Human Rights cases we are bringing at the Canadian Human Rights Commission, Financial and banking exclusion...
The Vancouver Police are warning sex workers about an attempted abduction which happened at Cambie and West Cordova;
There is limited info, a white hatchback with three males. They tried to pull the victim into the car but she escaped via an Uber that she had pre-arranged. Limited description...
fuck man.....so fucked up.....
i just don't understand....is the arguement she called an ambulance therefore there was no intent? she tried to save him so didn't kill him per seh? administering a noxious substance for the purpose of committing a crime is illegal....the fact that a man died...
ummm....condoms are brith control..? and would be banned? and HIV is still a thing?....never mind everything else? so...easy there "handmaids gentleman"...lol