[Image-1] Leslie Greening isn’t your typical webcam model. Unlike the millions of one-sided setups in pop-up ads the internet over, Greening’s job as a “cam-panion” is a two-way street, on which she and her clients can watch each other. The Dartmouth resident started working for her Toronto friend’s new wewatchyoucam.com website back in June, after […]
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Assaults are up, theft is down in first quarter police stats
[Image-1] Crime is down in Halifax. That’s according to the first quarter stats for 2015 released by Halifax Police, which saw an overall drop of eight percent (or 358 cases) compared to the same period last year. Violent crime, however, has jumped 11 points compared to the first quarter of 2014. Assaults are up by […]
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Expert calls for change to sex work laws
Dal law professor Elaine Craig calls for change to laws and regulations governing sex work.
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With all due respect
I just wanted to write and thank Meredith Dault for such a great, nuanced and respectful piece about Stepping Stone and the sex workers who the organization supports (“Sex work in the shadows,” August 20). I’m an American activist whose focus is sexuality and media—among other things, I run a media training workshop for sex […]
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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