[image-1] There has always been violence on the streets of Halifax, but from about 2005 to 2007, there was a disturbing spike in the level of unprovoked attacks on innocents, culminating with a series of swarmings in and around the Halifax Common and the murder of American sailor Damon Crooks on Argyle Street.
Don Clairmont
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Sex work in the shadows
Halifax’s sex workers are regularly assaulted and have even been killed on the job. But as a result of our hypocritical
attitudes toward sex—we can sell anything using appeals to our sexual selves, except sex itself—we can’t find a way to
protect these women. Meredith Dault tells their story. photos Aaron McKenzie Fraser