Hearings began this week at the Ontario Superior Court in Toronto on a challenge to Canada’s sex work-specific criminal offences because they violate sex workers’ constitutional rights to security, personal and sexual autonomy, life, liberty, free expression, association, and equality.
In 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in Canada v. Bedford that three criminal prohibitions on prostitution were unconstitutional because ...
- by Jeff Caldwell
At the All Candidates (I’m one of them) meeting a number of people on stage made comments that motivated me to do some research. Footnotes below,
Marion Koepke and Brock Hamley both mentioned roads in their opening statements. Mrs. Koepke said her “biggest advocacy is towards roads” ,,,
- by Jim Hutton
In Part I we saw that Owen Sound residents had to use a much larger percentage of their income to pay their property taxes than Collingwood residents. It’s important to note that if you rent an apartment you don’t escape our high taxes. It’s unlikely that your landlord absorbs the city’s tax increases. These increases are normally just ...
- by Jim Hutton
One question that many who have read my analysis of Owen Sound’s current financial situation is: “So our city has fallen on hard times, but haven’t all municipalities been struggling?”. To answer this question we really need to compare our city to similarly sized communities in our area. The best candidate that I found for this comparison ...
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