You searched for Canada Bedford - Mike South https://mikesouth.com/ The institute for the advance study of insensitivity and pornography Sun, 09 Jul 2023 10:46:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://i0.wp.com/mikesouth.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 You searched for Canada Bedford - Mike South https://mikesouth.com/ 32 32 1788040 Sex Workers Sue Canadian Government Over Disastrous, Wrong-Headed PCEPA https://mikesouth.com/legal/sex-workers-sue-canadian-government-over-disastrous-wrong-headed-pcepa-73736/ https://mikesouth.com/legal/sex-workers-sue-canadian-government-over-disastrous-wrong-headed-pcepa-73736/#respond Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:17:02 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=73736 Oppressive present-day laws in Canada make it impossible for sex workers to make a living without severe discrimination because of the criminalization of their clients. The current constitutional challenge against the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA) differs from Canada’s Bedford case in a crucial ways. As reported in Chateline, Jane Li supported her family through […]

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]]> https://mikesouth.com/legal/sex-workers-sue-canadian-government-over-disastrous-wrong-headed-pcepa-73736/feed/ 0 73736 PCEPA: Canadian law to ‘protect’ sex workers is making it harder for them to stay safe https://mikesouth.com/politics/pcepa-canadian-law-to-protect-sex-workers-is-making-it-harder-for-them-to-stay-safe-30323/ https://mikesouth.com/politics/pcepa-canadian-law-to-protect-sex-workers-is-making-it-harder-for-them-to-stay-safe-30323/#comments Sat, 10 Nov 2018 17:58:10 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=30323 VANCOUVER—Kerry Porth fondly remembers the day in 2013 when the Supreme Court of Canada made the landmark decision to strike down laws that criminalized doing sex work. On Dec. 20 of that year, the top court unanimously ruled that criminal laws prohibiting living off the avails of sex work pushed Terri-Jean Bedford and other sex […]

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]]> https://mikesouth.com/politics/pcepa-canadian-law-to-protect-sex-workers-is-making-it-harder-for-them-to-stay-safe-30323/feed/ 3 30323 Canada: Liberal government’s justice reform bill C-75 doesn’t aid sex workers https://mikesouth.com/legal/canadas-liberal-governments-long-awaited-justice-reform-bill-for-not-repealing-provisions-that-target-sex-workers-24746/ https://mikesouth.com/legal/canadas-liberal-governments-long-awaited-justice-reform-bill-for-not-repealing-provisions-that-target-sex-workers-24746/#respond Wed, 02 May 2018 22:55:40 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=24746 In the summer of 2016, Canada’s Supreme Court called on all criminal justice system actors to undertake real, transformative change. The Jordan decision – one of the few Canadian court decisions to become a household name – created the expectation among Canadians that their government would act to improve the criminal justice system. The government’s justice […]

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