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… Because it is privately and on the Internet they might be tempted to try it,” said Sowden. “It is opening up different types of youth being exploited and different types of people trying it. “There are customers who might not normally be the typical customer who would go and pick someone up on the street.”
In January, the Vancouver police’s vice unit and the Coquitlam-based Children of the Street Society launched Predator Watch.ca,a public-awareness campaign aimed at deterring those who use the Internet to prey on children and youth.
However, Sowden said, despite attempts for almost a year to get Craigslist to address the issue, she has failed to get the site even to add a warning that people soliciting or selling underage sex could be caught by undercover police.
Sowden first tried contacting Craigslist founder Craig Newmark when he was in Vancouver last April and his company was under fire over the so-called “Craigslist murder,” in which Boston University student Philip Markoff was charged with killing masseuse Julissa Brisman, who had placed a Craigslist ad offering erotic massage.

See the full article from “Vancouver Sun”

Also in the Ottawa Citizen: a Canwest story from last week on Ottawa ruling that a Canadian line of genetically engineered pigs is safe for the environment. It could be a long time before they could be approved for consumption. “But Patricia Howard, a biotechnology and public policy expert at Simon Fraser University, doesn’t think Health Canada is up to the job—nor does she think the Canadian public is ready to embrace transgenic pork on their dinner plates anytime soon.” Howard is a retired SFU Communication prof. Meat Trade News Daily also ran a story.
Calgary-based Fast Forward Weekly quoted criminologist John Lowman, who has studied prostitution for almost four decades. “If off-street prostitution was as violent as on-street prostitution, we should be reading about hundreds of murders of escort and massage parlour workers, but we’re not. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, but the prohibitionists say ‘As long as there’s a single murder of an off-street prostitute, it shows that prostitution is inherently violent.’ It does nothing of the sort.”

See the full article from “Simon Fraser University News”

… It’s nice and warm in here,” Mike Pattison, the family patriarch, told the students. “But this is where Apolo and J.R. learned how to skate.”
The Pattisons traveled to Vancouver to watch the two Olympians they helped produce. They paid $1,200 for four tickets and sat in the front row, the best seats in the house.
At that moment, the memories flooded back. Like a teenage Ohno break-dancing between skating sessions, performing his patented windmill. Or Celski rolling past adults at age 3, his skates and body nearly equal in size.
“Everything started there,” said Yuki Ohno, Apolo’s father. “That was the beginning.”
Pattison’s West sits on the Pacific Highway near a massage parlor, a storage facility and a chiropractor. The sign out front advertised this week’s adult R&B night.

See the full article from “Sarasota Herald-Tribune”

… It’s nice and warm in here,” Mike Pattison, the family patriarch, told the students. “But this is where Apolo and J. R. learned how to skate.”
The Pattisons traveled to Vancouver to watch the two Olympians they helped produce. They paid $1,200 for four tickets and sat in the front row, the best seats in the house. They watched Ohno win his sixth Winter Olympic medal, the most for an American man, and saw Celski secure his first.
At that moment, the memories flooded back. Like a teenage Ohno break-dancing between skating sessions, performing his patented windmill. Or Celski rolling past adults at age 3, his skates and body nearly equal in size.
“Everything started there,” said Yuki Ohno, Apolo’s father. “That was the beginning.”
Pattison’s West sits on the Pacific Highway near a massage parlor, a storage facility and a chiropractor. The sign out front advertised this week’s adult R&B night.

See the full article from “New York Times”

In the last two decades Richmond has become Vancouver’s new Chinatown, home to the second-biggest Asian community in North America; Asian Canadians now make up about 60% of Richmond’s population.
Stepping into one of Richmond’s shopping malls is a quick trip to the contemporary Orient. Yaohan Centre has a giant pan-Asian supermarket, and Aberdeen Centre is classic, over-the-top Hong Kong, right down to a showy multimedia water-fountain production in the foyer.
There are Sikh temples, the biggest Buddhist temple in North America, Chinese foot massage parlors and herb shops, but I go to Richmond to eat, especially at the Richmond Night Market, open weekends throughout the summer. You can smell the spicy lamb kebabs and sautéed noodles long before you reach the maze of 300 stalls lighted by strings of lights and hazed in plumes of smoke from grilled squid and prawns.

See the full article from “Los Angeles Times”

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.

See the full article from “PEJ News”

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.

See the full article from “Nanaimo Daily News”

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.

See the full article from “Montreal Gazette”

The prices on intimate services in Vancouver will grow considerably too. Hard-working females can make tens of thousands of dollars in only two Olympic weeks. Nigh clubs, massage parlors, striptease bars, etc also hire additional personnel for the Winter Olympics.

See the full article from “Pravda”

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 Victoria’s 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 parlours 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.

See the full article from “GreenMuze”