Vancouver council OKs residential sex trade

[dArKeR]

On the eve of opening North America's first safe-injection site for drug users, Vancouver City Council has now sanctioned the right of sex-trade businesses to operate from local residences.

In a surprise move, councillors voted 4-3 to include elements of the sex trade among approved businesses that a person can run from their home in the city's increasingly residential downtown core.

Such a move would certainly be a Canadian first, said Simon Fraser University criminologist John Lowman, an expert on prostitution law.

"Hats off to city council. This is a step in the right direction," Prof. Lowman said, citing the scores of street prostitutes who have died at the hands of customers in recent years.

http://theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030912.usexx0912/BNStory/National/

Pot, sex, electricity, democracy, equality, health insurance, friendly relations witht the world's countries(Cuba), good economy, no Rat Robertson or Scary Falwell... Canada sure has a lot to offer!

[Robin Hood]

1. Vancouver is a beautiful city.

I have been thinking of moving there my self.

[maggrwaggr]

3. some of the worst traffic I've ever seen

and I live in LA. The traffic is dreadful.

[xchrom]

2. sounds like paradise

i wanna go!!!

[Muddleoftheroad]

4. Sex trade

Sex trade is your definition of paradise?

How sad.

[Skittles]

5. that is pathetic

unbelievably pathetic

[molok555]

6. Ahhh, my home and native land

Our new socialist city council is sure shaking things up! Promotion of the 'four pillars' drug strategy, extending bar hours to 4am, allowing the marijuania cafes to stay open, proposing a chnage to ward system (no wards previously meaning that city council was chosen by city-wide votes-votes dominated by the wealthy on the west side of the city) and now allowing sex-trade workers to LEGALLY get off the streets and into more regulated work environments. In a perfect world, there is no sex trade. We do not live in such a world. After the tragedy and fiasco of what has become the Pickton case, this was seen a necessary move.

[Muddleoftheroad]

8. Off the streets

And into neighborhood homes, just what every homeowner wants to see.

[Cheswick2.0]

7. fabulous, a whole new job opportunity for women

tell me... if there are openings for Hooker, will women lose their welfare or unemployment if they refuse to apply?