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Voted yesterday with just my driver's licence. Easy, friendly and 15 minutes. It might take a bit more time when you live in another riding.

"EVERY majority government has done the same thing since the beginning of time." That's why this election is so exciting. We could have a minority government and a few Green MPs could have the balance of power. It worked well in Germany for the Greens and minority governments have worked well...

I spoke to an SP yesterday who thought she wouldn't be able to vote because she will be on tour till after the election. Turn out she can vote. The info is at http://www.elections.ca/Home.aspx Anyone can vote now at one of the 400 Elections Canada offices. Just take your ID, one or two...

To vote strategically you need detailed information on your riding. Voting strategically is only needed in select ridings. Leadnow has identified 76 ridings on their http://www.votetogether.ca/ web site where strategic voting might be needed. The site will be updated as election day...

True for all but the Green Party candidates. They represent their constituents rather than the party. No whipped vote in the Green party. They also have the most positive sex work policies.

Alternative to Backpage There was some comment above about not using Backpage. Probably not a good or necessary short term option but long term it soulds like a great idea. Backpage is a vulnerable target for the prohibitionists and someone at Backpage is making millions a month at the...

Ad sites and internet hosts should be OK as long as they are only distributing someone elses advertising. Hosting in New Zealand is also an option.

Another version of this story closed with a note that there are new US laws coming down the pipe. If any police department chooses to enforce C-36 there could be problems here as well.

Broader Community Promotion of Sex Worker Services So there have been a good number of respectful and informed newbies showing up. The next question is, how do we find and encourage more of those new clients? There must be many out there who never quite build up the nerve to arrange a visit...

Advertising It's good to hear current info from Victoria SPs. There was discussion out of Vancouver as well with mixed comments about business being up or down. As for the advertising question, the Conservative who was selling Bill C-36 in the House of Commons said sex workers would have the...

You almost got it. The landlord, family member, tax accountant will likely be found not guilty of committing a criminal offence because if they are investigated or charged they can take advantage of the "Exception" so that 286.2(1) does not apply. It's a reverse burden of proof. Everyone who...

Westwoody, you have expressed several common misunderstandings about C-36. Earning money from escorting is a crime for everyone, including the escort. Material benefit from sexual services 286.2 (1) Everyone who receives a financial or other material benefit, knowing that it is obtained by or...

This would also apply to municipal or city license fees but you would only want to push the issue where those fees were excessive such as Calgary.

No Rights, No Taxes is an exaggeration of course. Things aren't that good or that bad. But there is an opportunity for sex workers to torment Stephen Harper. It would only be fair given Bill C-36. When the Harper Government passed Bill C-36, it may have made it a criminal offence for the...

Perhaps MPs and Senators should not get burned for seeing SPs when it was legal but perhaps they should get burned for voting in support of Bill C-36. The hypocrisy is what should matter to all voters.

Post Cards, Just Say No to Bill C-36 Post cards can be sent postage free to the House of Commons and cost a bit less than 25 cents each to print when ordered by the thousand. Who would be willing to pick them up from supportive organizations around Vancouver like PIVOT Legal and pay 25 cents...

If a person is subjected to an audit as a response to some other interaction with the police, that is corruption on the part of the police and the auditing agency, regardless of the justification or outcome of the audit.

Sad that common sense is so uncommon.

I was reading a description of the prostitution laws in New Zealand posted by the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective. It makes interesting reading when considered against what we have now and may have in Canada after the decision by the Supreme Court of Canada...

Great thread. And to add a boring technical detail, I think from a court case in Montreal where a strip club was declared a bawdy house, any sexuallized touching for money is "prostitution" under the law. That means lap dances, a massage with a happy ending, S&M and lots of other good stuff...