Why I won’t be supporting Canada’s Next Top Progressive Startup, Ricochet
Ricochet has been making some big waves in Canadian media over the past month since it launched a crowdfunder and began work to raise $75,000 to help build “a new model of digital journalism in the...
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Janine Benedet & Alice Lee on Canada’s proposed prostitution legislation,...
feminist_current_-_canadas_prostitution_laws_-_bill_c-36_-_rabble.mp3In 2007, lawyer, Alan Young, initiated a case challenging Canada’s prostitution laws as unconstitutional. After the Supreme Court of...
View ArticleJohns are now an oppressed sexual minority
Please support our coverage of democratic movements and become a monthly supporter of rabble.ca.In a last-ditch effort to frame feminists as moralistic neocons and Oppressors of Freedom and Liberty,...
View ArticleThe real exploitation in the sex industry is its distortion
Please support our coverage of democratic movements and become a monthly supporter of rabble.ca. Sex work is a diverse profession. Although sex work takes a variety of forms, the dominant image in the...
View ArticleHookers on Davie: an old documentary within a new context
Hookers on Davie, a documentary from the 80s, was screened on June 24 at the Fox Theatre, a venue which caters to mostly white, liberal twentysomethings. The demographic who regularly attend events...
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Are johns the new 'fags' because of Bill C-36?
Friday, July 4, 2014Please support our coverage of democratic movements and become a monthly supporter of rabble.ca.Sexual shaming is on the prowl, not just somewhere far away but, sadly, right here,...
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Prostitution bill poisoned by sexist ideology
Friday, July 4, 2014Please help rabble.ca stop Harper's election fraud plan. Become a monthly supporter. The new prostitution bill introduced in June by Injustice Minister Peter MacKay is blatantly...
View ArticleWhat would you like to tell the courts?
Seems to us that there are a number of important rulings against the Federal government lately. A lot. Here are just a few:Choices Keep on crushing the terrible policies and practices of this...
View ArticleFinding community in sex work organizing
It's the last week of our supporter drive and boy, do we need you! Please help rabble.ca amplify democratic movements like the struggle against the Tar Sands. Become a monthly supporter.When I moved to...
View ArticleMeet the 'nice,''normal' johns of Canada
The Invisible Men project Canada just launched a tumblr compiling comments from boards where men go to discuss, recommend, and review the women they buy sex from. The "reviews" are truly horrifying...
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All sex workers will be harmed by Bill C-36, #yesallsexworkers
Friday, July 11, 2014 Bill C-36 disregards sex workers' lived experiences, the Bedford decision and social science evidence and will create more harm. This is how each diverse group will be affected....
View Article#Notalljohns: Notes from the hearings on Bill C-36
The hearings on Bill C-36, the federal government’s proposed prostitution law, continued today. You can watch all of the testimonies, which began on Monday, on CPAC.read more
View ArticleHow not to protect the lives of sex trade workers
The ruling from the Supreme Court of Canada was pretty clear in the Bedford case. The laws were preventing women (and men) in the business of selling sex from being unacceptably vulnerable to violence...
View ArticleDoes Bill C-36 really bestow dignity and human rights upon anyone?
Last week, witnesses provided testimony on Bill C-36, The Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. Many witnesses applauded the...
View ArticleActual evidence shows the Nordic model works
A study commissioned by Norway’s government shows that criminalizing the purchase of sex has decreased trafficking and has not caused violence against women to increase, as some have claimed.Johns have...
View ArticleVictoria Sexual Assault Centre takes official position in favour of full...
The Victoria Sexual Assault Centre (VSAC) recently published a statement outlining their official position on prostitution, saying:"VSAC unanimously agreed to support the decriminalization of sex work....
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Bill C-36 based on ‘flawed logic’ and ‘incomplete information’ says U Vic...
chrisa.mp3Chris Atchison has been researching the sex buying community and working in a supportive capacity with sex work(er) researchers and outreach/support organizations since 1995. Listen to an...
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#ImNotNext: Indigenous women use social media to demand change
Thursday, September 18, 2014 Are there links between missing and murdered women and Bill C-36? Perhaps. It seems there is a discomfort in linking violence against Indigenous women and the rights and...
View ArticleNew research suggests sex workers don't feel exploited, most buyers aren't...
Sex workers and sex buyers aren't who we thought they were, the first national report on the Canadian sex industry has found, only one of the findings from the five-year study, led by Cecilia Benoit of...
View ArticleNorthern Ireland bans buying sex
Last night, members of the Stormont assembly voted in favour of a bill that would outlaw the purchase of sex in Northern Ireland.Buying sex is currently legal in Northern Ireland though activities such...
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