Resource Collection for Sex Trade in Canada

Websites

 

1. Toronto Sex Workers Action Project These resources are authored or co-authored by sex worker activists themselves and as such are grassroot, straight from the hip: http://maggiestoronto.ca/resources 

2. Montreal: http://chezstella.org/en/

3. A mobile panic button for Sex workers and why its required: http://www.keepsafeinitiative.org/about-2/

4. Website of Sex Professionals of Canada http://www.spoc.ca/index.html

5. Self-proclaimed Toronto's ONLY Sex Trade Survivors and Abolitionists Organization: http://www.sextrade101.com/

6. This local organisation fights against stigma and silence http://www.bigsusies.com/issues.html

7. Canada’s New Sex Trade Law: http://sisyphe.org/spip.php?article5077

8. "Sex worker" ? Never met one ! Says a former member of the trade: http://sisyphe.org/spip.php?article3290

9. CLES says NO to the violence of prostitution: http://sisyphe.org/article.php3?id_article=2839

10. http://owjn.org/owjn_2009/legal-information/aboriginal-law/121

11. http://www.pivotlegal.org/sex_workers_rights

12. http://www.wewomen.ca/key-debates/prostitution-in-canada-d45349x84744.html

 

 

 

Newspaper Articles:

1. A brief article on the Candian proposed laws on Sex Work: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadas-new-prostitution-laws-everything-you-need-to-know/article19610318/#

2. Are the New Canadian laws on Sex Work up to the task?: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/barely-illegal-new-prostitution-laws-may-drive-sex-work-underground-but-can-it-stop-it

3. A detailed look at the new laws and the murky grey area still present: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/what-is-and-is-not-legal-under-canadas-new-200231637.html

Videos

1. TEDxToronto hosts Valerie Scott (Sex Worker  and Advocate) October 22, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQG3MqAK-w4

2. TEDxAntioch hosts Antoinette Welch (former ADA in Nashville, TN, USA) speaks about the truth behind the smile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9_REwV8zfU

3. ForumXXX - Global sex workers' rights movement 

 

Journal Articles or Academic Papers

1. The Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) is the national, independent, not-for-profit, voluntary association representing public health in Canada. This is the latest update to their policy Sex Work in Canada: A Public Health Perspective http://www.cpha.ca/uploads/policy/sex-work_e.pdf

 

Bedford Case Resources:

http://www.pivotlegal.org/canada_v_bedford_a_synopsis_of_the_supreme_court_of_canada_ruling

http://gshi.cfenet.ubc.ca/sites/default/files/GSHI%20Summary%20of%20Bedford%20SCC%20Decision.pdf 

http://chezstella.org/docs/StellaInfoSheetBedford.pdf

IdeaCity hosts Terri-Jean Bedford, Amy Lebovitch and Valerie Scott on Constitutional Reform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSq99RBSTxM 

 

References

1. Wingrove, J. (2014, July 15). Canada's new prostitution laws: Everything you need to know. Retrieved November 22, 2015, from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadas-new-prostitution-laws-everything-you-need-to-know/article19610318/#

2.  Warnica, R. (2015, May 7). Barely illegal: New prostitution laws may drive sex work underground - but can it stop it? Retrieved November 22, 2015, from http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/barely-illegal-new-prostitution-laws-may-drive-sex-work-underground-but-can-it-stop-it

3. Coutts, M. (2014, December 8). What is and is not legal under Canada's new prostitution laws. Retrieved November 22, 2015, from https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/what-is-and-is-not-legal-under-canadas-new-200231637.html

4. Sex Work in Canada: A Public Health Perspective. (2014, December 1). Retrieved November 22, 2015, from http://www.cpha.ca/uploads/policy/sex-work_e.pdf

5. Hill, T. (Host). (2014, February 14). Public Forum - After Bedford v. Canada: What's next for regulating sex work in Canada?. Retrieved November 23, 2015  from http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/needs-no-introduction/2014/02/public-forum-after-bedford-v-canada-whats-next-regulati

6. Brown, J. (Host). (2015, June 01). Sex Work in Canada. Retrieved November 23, 2015  from http://canadalandshow.com/podcast/sex-work-canada

7. One London borough wants to End Demand: Clients of sex workers beware - x:talk. (2012, May 16). Retrieved November 27, 2015, from http://www.xtalkproject.net/?p=1079