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Were you there? Did you see good shows? I had a blast. Among the two or three best years in more than 35. The Zakir Hussein, Dave Holland and Chris Potter concert was orgasmic. Brian Blade had an amazing line-up. So did Mike Stern. Bonobo was a discovery for me: good compositions, fabulous...

There was never any Coderre crackdown. He did a show-off a couple of days before taking office but he was advised by his entourage to calm down, which he did. It's hard to say if Québec City is a good indicator of what goes on in Montréal (the business is more concentrated in massage parlors...

Bonne fête dear friend!

I think this is the main point. Here, LE and the prosecutors offices are interested only to prosecute street prostitution and, of course anything else truly criminal involving constraints by third parties. Take massage parlors for exemple. My understanding is that is is quite easy for the city...

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Scamming is nothing new. If there is more of it today, I'm not sure of that, it probably has more to do with the free advertisement platforms on the Internet rather then scammers making a rational decision based on the new law. Clients did not report to the LE before and they don't today...

Walid HIjazi, l'avocat montréalais qui avait plaidé dans l'affaire Bedford en cour suprême. http://www.canalvie.com/webtele?target=1.3624536

Oh man, do I remember that show! We were there the exact same night. Elvin Jones came back a few months later. I think we must have been less than 20 people in the club. So Elvin took it easy decided to show us the basics of drumming. The funny thing, telling this to you specifically, is that I...

I'm a huge fan of Jo Pass with his unique technique to play the lead, the chords and the bass line distinctly in the same solos. He used to come to the Rising Sun in Montréal once in while in the late 1970. Not to brag, but I saw him with Ella in San Francisco in 1978. Pat Metheny also has a...

" “Why should your freedom of speech trump a trans person's right not to be offended?” Cathy Newman Penn and Teller answered that one 8 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bwGsOBTlhE

The bill was past against the advice of the justice department. It is this law that Laura Lee was engaged to fight, a fight you can be assured will continue. High court decisions in the Commonwealth countries sometime tell what will happen in others. True what you say about the handicapped...

RIP Laura Lee, a great sex worker activist in both Ireland and Scotland. I had a few occasions to exchange with her. She was dedicated, fucused and efficient even if low profile. I think I posted this video before, but it's worth watching it again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5LH5k5hyWA...

The first challenge of the new prostitution law began this Monday in London Ontario http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/london-ontario-bill-c-36-prostitution-laws-1.4520736 London, Ont. court case to challenge Canada's prostitution laws Toronto lawyer James Lockyer is representing two...

Disponible sur ARTE pour quelques jours seulement le film reportage très attendu d'Ovidie, Là où les putains n'existent pas, qui parle de la Suède. Pour accéder au contenu il faut s'équiper de Hola, programme gratuit, qui vous permet de simuler votre connection comme si elle était en France...

Johanne Paquin, responsible at the SPVM for tracking prostitution, announced her retirement yesterday. Cops are usually not appreciated by most actors on the sex work scene, but I think her balance sheet is largely positive. She had a good knowledge of the issues and of the industry. She was a...

Sur le même thème, les parcours migratoires, une table-ronde avec Nicola Mai, sociologue, professeur et cinéaste, Lillian Mathieu qui n'a plus besoin de présentation et Laure Sizaire, doctorante au CNRS. https://etsionenparlait.hypotheses.org/4025#more-4025

Prohibitionnists love to trash punters' forums, selecting juicy quotes to prove their point.The truth is that contrary to what they say the level of civility on those forums is usually pretty good and the respect for providers pretty high. Transparency is generally good both for good faith...

These stories are of course possible and relatively frequent. The problem is with people teaching that this is what sex work is about. It ain't. You have extremes, the hell and the paradise. Few sex workers live there. Most live in between, heroine free.

"Kate was a nice middle-class girl: a dreamy bookworm, a classics scholar and an innocent. In this memoir she chronicles in frank and beautifully crafted prose her descent into drug addiction and then prostitution." Stunningly original!

It could be harder to get an absolute or conditional discharge if you already have a criminal record. If not, however, a lawyer would normally succed in having one or the other if i's a first offence. In the first case, the info is whiped out of the record after 1 year, in the second after 3 years.