PCEPA Archives - Mike South The institute for the advance study of insensitivity and pornography Sat, 08 Jul 2023 12:08:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://i0.wp.com/mikesouth.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 PCEPA Archives - Mike South 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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