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If the organisers are ready for their big day, so are the protestors of the Olympic Resistance Network. Their objections range from anti-globalisation and anti-capitalism tirades about the role of large corporate sponsors such as Coca-Cola and Samsung to the alleged waste of money on a sporting extravaganza when central Vancouver is blighted by pockets of desperate poverty.
When the Games kicks off, Vancouver will proudly showcase its picture-postcard setting – a stunning city skyline surrounded by water and mountains – and a culture and cuisine that have long earned it the tag of “one of the most liveable cities on earth”.
But just a few streets away from major Olympic venues, in the Downtown Eastside district, the squalid scenes are almost unimaginable for an affluent First World city. Addicts openly shoot up drugs in alleyways, the homeless bed down in bunks in a church converted into a temporary shelter, strung-out street prostitutes mumble incoherently and men in ragged clothing sell detritus recovered from skips and rubbish bins.

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The expert’s account of how she won a rare invitation to the island — and the imaginary stripping and prostitution that helped pay her imaginary boat fare — was a bizarre highlight of a legal conference on hate crimes this week in Toronto, attended by senior judges, Crowns and defense lawyers, chiefs of police and politicians.
Ms. Corb, who asked that her first name be witheld, is an Open Source Intelligence Operations Specialist for the Hate Crime Extremism Investigative Team, a joint effort of 13 Ontario police forces. “I act as an agent of the police,” she said, but she is not an officer.
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She also showed video of a Second Life pole-dancer — “I’m sorry if this offensive,” she said — to illustrate her anecdote about needing to raise Second Life play-money to pay for the ferry to the island, and turning first to stripping and then prostitution.

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In a city known for high tea, seniors, gardens, and perhaps most epitomized by the expression the newly wed and the nearly dead, there is another lesser known, but equally thriving element to the coastal city of Victoria the sex trade. In a debut film by director April Butler-Parry and written by Gillian Hrankowski, The Brothel Project explores Victorias best-kept secret via a new 52-minute documentary.
The Brothel Project follows journalist and activist Jody Paterson and University of Victoria researcher, activist and former sex worker Lauren Casey as they set out to challenge mainstream thinking, debunk stereotypes, and open the first ever legal co-op brothel, operated by sex workers for sex workers in Victoria, British Columbia.
Currently, there are estimated to be four underground brothels operating in the quaint Vancouver Island city, under the guise of massage parlors or escort agencies, with almost 1000 independent escorts licensed with the city who work as indoor sex workers. In Canada, the act of prostitution itself is not illegal, but everything surrounding it is.

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The effect today, as it was then, is that the work is more dangerous than it needs to be and the participants — mostly women — are excluded from the basic rights and protections enjoyed by everyone else in society.
The risk of arrest for soliciting forces sex workers and their clients into dark and dangerous neighbourhoods at night. Instead of discussing the transaction with a client, like any other business exchange, hurried judgments must be made before climbing into a stranger’s car.
The bawdy house laws make it legally impossible for sex workers to operate a brothel like any other business. They exist, of course, surreptitiously or as massage parlours or escort agencies. They pay taxes and licence fees and advertise. But they operate in a legal shadow that penalizes workers. The laws serve mainly to make the sex trade dangerous.

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The otherwise impressively fair-minded and persuasive work is marred by a few puzzling omissions that seem hard to explain as anything other than lapses into professional or political spite. Campbell’s left-wing opponents within his own caucus during his term as mayor, for example, receive little narrative attention, and the explosive fracturing of his majority – which might have been able to do more to address the tragedy of the Downtown Eastside absent his heavy-handed leadership – does not, perhaps unsurprisingly, get the attention it deserves. And the work of Simon Fraser University researcher (and Neil Boyd colleague) John Lowman, which brilliantly documents the lethal stupidity of Canadian prostitution law, is mentioned only once, and parenthetically at that.
Most of the book’s suggestions for reform – saner prostitution and drug policies, adequate social housing and more effective outreach to the vulnerable – are sound and have been heard before. What remains to be seen is whether we can muster the political will to make them work. I …

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VANCOUVER – Olympic fever is taking hold in Metro Vancouver’s sex industry, with businesses and workers preparing to welcome a deluge of visitors.
Vancouver’s most prominent strip club is planning Olympic-themed decorations, but keeping them secret for fear of a clampdown by Olympics authorities. And one Metro Vancouver escort service is hiring dozens of women from across the country for the Games – and is already catering to Olympics-related demand.
In Vancouver, hotel doormen, bell captains and concierges who refer guests to entertainment venues have been warning Brandy Sarionder to expect hordes of clients at her high-end strip club Brandi’s and her massage parlour The Swedish Touch, she says.
“We’ve been told that however busy we think we’re going to be, we’re going to be a thousand times busier than that,” Sarionder says.

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The 2010 Winter Olympics are just days away – and brothels in Vancouver are preparing for an onslaught!
‘Faster, higher, further’ – in the light of the latest information from Vancouver, maybe the Olympic motto should be ‘Faster, harder, wilder’…
BILD has already reported how the Games organisers in Canada have been distributing so-called ‘safe kits’ with condoms to Olympic athletes, coaches and observers.
Now Brandy Sarionder, the owner of a strip club and massage parlour, told the ‘Vancouver Sun’: “We’ve been told that however busy we think we’re going to be, we’re going to be a thousand times busier than that.”
She added: “I’m a little worried about my staff burning out.”
Is it really possible that prostitutes fear burnout from all the Olympic visitors?
The city of 600,000 residents faces the greatest influx in its history with brothels facing greater demand than during the World Exhibition in 1986.

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From Snow White to a rhythmically challenged stripper in a matter of weeks. That’s where Krystle Hadlow finds herself right now.
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With rehearsals for Bedtime Stories beginning a week before the closing show of the panto Snow White in December, Hadlow said it took a while to make sure she was not Snow White for Sandy the stripper.
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A rock star, a radio producer, burglars and, yes, a stripper, are but a few of the characters in this play. To keep the cast in tune with his vision, Baron deployed the help of tarot cards. As director, he likes to have a mental theme in his mind, describing the directing process as playing a movie in your head of what you see on stage, and making it happen. As he looked upon a deck of tarot cards he began to see characters in the play.

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Health workers will be out on street to treat people who are HIV positive, people who are using drugs to battle the virus out and people in whom the virus has not been diagnosed. This will take place under a four-year, $48-million program called Seek and Treat.
The programme aims to implement Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy, or HAART, meant to target groups that are not easily accessible like prostitutes and injection-drug users. They will operate in Prince George and Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
“This effort is about outreach and support, over and above throwing pills to people,” Julio Montaner, director of the B. C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and the prime mover behind the program, said yesterday.
A remarkable finding by researchers is a therapy, a drug cocktail that decreases the spread of the virus by sterilizing the fluids present in the body of those who are on it.

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