December 2018
Rebecca Beattie says she was compelled to start a petition for a safe injection site after seeing a man try to shoot up at a Saskatoon restaurant this month.
[ More ]November 2018
TOLLAND, Conn. — Like many victims of a Connecticut sex trafficking ring that preyed on troubled young men and teenage boys for more than 20 years, Samuel Marino never told his family or police about being coerced into sexual relations with much older men.
[ More ]November 2018
Ron MacRae wants family members to have power to intervene. Ron MacRae said his daughter loved animals and dreamt of being a veterinarian, but she spiraled deep into a drug addiction which eventually contributed to her death.
[ More ]"All in all now, we've got 12 kids in the Philippines that are certainly in a better spot than what they were a few months ago," said ICE's Cpl. Jared Clarke, after returning from a trip to the Philippines to provide testimony about the investigation.
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A Nova Scotia Supreme Court jury deliberated for parts of three days before finding Renee Allison Webber guilty Sunday on five charges.
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Mealia Sheutiapik was on the streets of Ottawa when she was 15
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What to expect when you report, now online
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The family of an aboriginal woman missing for the last decade says they are heartbroken but relieved that her remains have been found in Alberta.
[ More ]October 2018
Human trafficking is considered the third-most profitable of all illicit activities, behind only drugs and the arms trade, in the world.
[ More ]October 2018
Partnering with community organization CHILL, student nurses create social media campaign and e-learning tool for health-care providers to build awareness.
[ More ]September 2018
Ontario woman forced to have sex with 50 customers while captive in Winnipeg home
[ More ]September 2018
NXIVM calls itself a humanitarian community. Experts and critics call it a cult. Uncover: Escaping NXIVM is a CBC investigative podcast series about the group, its leader, Keith Raniere, and one woman's journey to get out. Read about whistleblower Sarah Edmondson's experience "deprogramming" after 1
[ More ]September 2018
Five women are missing from the Vernon - Sicamous corridor, raising concerns about a police search on a Salmon Arm farm where human remains were found.
[ More ]September 2018
Removal for former gang members, human trafficking survivors and children under 16
[ More ]September 2018
The owner of a Saskatoon motel denies outright that he extorted a tenant for sex and then raped her.
[ More ]September 2018
A Saskatoon hotel owner has been fined nearly $45,000 for sexually harassing a former female employee
[ More ]September 2018
In December 2014, the Government of Saskatchewan amended The Saskatchewan Human Rights Code to – among other things – raise the maximum possible award for injury to feelings, dignity, and self-respect from $10,000 to $20,000. This appears to be a response to a decision handed down by the Saskatchewa
[ More ]September 2018
How do ads for pornography appear on a website that provides advice and how-to columns related to cub scouts and boy scouts?
[ More ]August 2018
Annual Day of Mourning to remember victims of the sex trade.
[ More ]People under the age of 18 made up about a quarter of recorded human trafficking victims in Canada between 2009 and 2014, new data reveals.
[ More ]A retired nuclear physicist who once worked for the Department of National Defence has been arrested again and faces new child pornography charges.
[ More ]July 2018
The pain reverberating through the room was palpable as people reacted to a keynote talk provided to the Violence Against Women and Human Trafficking conference by Dr. Dawn Lavell-Harvard and other speakers, that anger and pain was largely directed against the indifference and complicity of white ma
[ More ]Women in prisons across the US are being recruited by sex traffickers who force them into prostitution on their release.
[ More ]July 2018
The majority of human trafficking victims in Canada are women and girls younger than 25 while most of the people charged with the crimes are men between 18 and 34.
[ More ]July 2018
Cpl. Jared Clarke testified at the trial of a Filipino woman accused of live streaming the sexual abuse of her children for a Saskatoon man
[ More ]June 2018
“Why didn’t you run, why didn’t you say something, why didn’t you speak out sooner?” These are some of the questions Elizabeth Smart and many other survivors of human trafficking are often confronted with.
[ More ]June 2018
Saskatchewan will be introducing Clare’s Law to allow people to go to the police to find out if a current partner has a history of domestic violence.
[ More ]June 2018
Saskatchewan has programs to assist children and youth who have witnessed or experienced interpersonal violence or abuse, with a goal of preventing them from becoming victims or perpetrators of violence and abuse in the future. Below is a list of programs throughout the province.
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Debbie Cumby’s eyes tell a story of strength. As a survivor of sexual exploitation and human trafficking in Canada, she is sharing her experience to help others.
[ More ]May 2018
Two years into their relationship, Jade Brooks's boyfriend gave her an ultimatum: break up or go into the sex trade. At 17, she agreed to move to Montreal from her home in Halifax and become a stripper because she loved him, the now 26-year-old said.
[ More ]May 2018
The Canadian Human Trafficking Hotline will respond to all forms of human trafficking including both sex and labour trafficking. The hotline will provide assistance to and on behalf of minors, adults, males, females, transgender individuals, gender non-conforming individuals, citizens, permanent res
[ More ]March 2018
At the height of his crystal meth addiction, Shane was once awake for 10 day
[ More ]Saskatoon police are considering homicide-related charges after two suspected drug overdose deaths involving cocaine possibly laced with fentanyl.
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The second annual memorial for homelessness will be held in Regina on Tuesday evening.
[ More ]February 2018
A now 18-year-old woman says "it felt like life or death" when she was allegedly confined in an SUV and hit during an attempted robbery.
[ More ]February 2018
Cyntoia Brown - who said she was forced into prostitution by a violent boyfriend - is in prison for the 2004 murder of a stranger who took her to his home when she was 16
[ More ]February 2018
The owner-manager of the Northwoods Inn & Suites in Saskatoon has been charged with three counts of sexual assault and two counts of uttering threats.
[ More ]February 2018
2018-01-29 WINNIPEG - The voice of a slain 15-year-old girl echoed through a courtroom Monday more than three years after her death renewed calls for a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women.
[ More ]February 2018
One woman’s story about what it’s like to be sold for sex in Canada, and why she’s far from the only one.
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A 15-year-old Minnesota girl who thought she was helping a friend’s dad was instead kidnapped and held captive for 29 days
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Changes to labour legislation will include five days, with salary, and another five unpaid
[ More ]January 2018
The Saskatchewan ICE Unit is comprised of investigators from the RCMP, Regina Police Service, Saskatoon Police Service, and Prince Albert Police Service. Their mandate is to investigate crimes involving the abuse and/or exploitation of children on the Internet.
[ More ]January 2018
"We need to accept that addiction is a chronic disease, not a moral failure," write Cara Vaccarino and Joe Manget. "Diabetes is also a chronic disease, often brought on by poor choices of diet and lack of exercise as well as genetics. We provide diabetics with the right health care services and educ
[ More ]January 2018
New child protection workers aim to stop youth in provincial care from falling victim to “The Game.”
[ More ]January 2018
'If it hasn't happened ... it's coming': Mothers of addicts urge radical approach to fentanyl crisis
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Farmtown Canada is the only program of its kind in the country, says the executive director
[ More ]December 2017
The owner-manager of the Northwoods Inn & Suites in Saskatoon has been charged with three counts of sexual assault and two counts of uttering threats
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Northwoods Inn & Suites manager John Pontes charged with 'extorting tenants for sexual favours'
[ More ]December 2017
A Saskatoon motel owner accused of extorting tenants for sexual favours has been granted bail.
[ More ]December 2017
Children in northern Saskatchewan will soon have access to groundbreaking mental health care through Remote Presence Technology (RPT).
[ More ]December 2017
Women and children are sold for sex every day online and in the streets of Fresno. Getting them out can be difficult, but some are trying.
[ More ]For Virginia, the end to her three-month nightmare came on a highway near Cornwall when she leapt from a moving car toward freedom.
[ More ]December 2017
The partnership between London police and St. Joe's is dedicated to meeting survivors' unique needs
[ More ]November 2017
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The Madness of Meth: A link to crime
[ More ]November 2017
The Madness of Meth: Struggling with addiction
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Artem Sterekhov, 19, of Kleinburg, Ont., and Roman Culeanu, 22, of Bradford, Ont., are charged with trafficking in persons, advertising sexual services, uttering threats, extortion and procuring.
[ More ]November 2017
The Durham Police Homicide Unit is investigating after a woman’s torso was found off the Oshawa Pier
[ More ]November 2017
A 17-year-old Winnipeg boy has been charged after sharing intimate images
[ More ]November 2017
It can happen to anyone, at any time. According to the Canadian Mental Health Association, by the age of 40, about 50 per cent of the population will have had some experience with a mental health issue.
[ More ]November 2017
The co-founder of a Kelowna outreach group working with vulnerable women says she's partnering with a local tech company to make a monitoring app available to sex workers.
[ More ]November 2017
Investigators are continuing to search multiple locations near Salmon Arm, B.C., after a grisly discovery Oct. 21
[ More ]November 2017
On Friday, one British Columbia city saw five people die of a drug overdose within a nine-hour period.
[ More ]November 2017
More supports for women needed to combat human trafficking
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An infectious disease physician with the Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region says Saskatchewan is in what he calls "a state of emergency" as the number of new HIV cases in the province continues to rise.
[ More ]October 2017
The cops, pimps and victims all call it "The Game." It's no game. Young Canadian girls are being beaten, branded, bought and sold in hotels and motels, and along highways across the GTA and Ontario.
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Nearly 25 per cent of women reported a pregnancy after an HIV diagnosis, a study has found. In B.C., where the study was based, there has not been a single mother-to-child HIV transmission in more than 20 years.
[ More ]October 2017
N.S. RCMP arrest 2 Ontario men in connection with national human trafficking investigation
[ More ]September 2017
The consensus reached at this month’s Board of Police Commissioners’ meeting is that more resources are needed to help women and underage girls who are the victims of human trafficking in Regina and across the province.
[ More ]September 2017
This exceptional film follows two young sisters in the Philippines who help former Australian police and Special Forces officers rescue underage girls from sex bars. Video published on December 16, 2016
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VANCOUVER — British Columbia's opioid crisis became a focal point of the province's election campaign on Thursday after receiving less attention than other issues, despite the ongoing death toll.
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Vancouver police are warning the public about a sexual offender who was convicted of sexually assaulting university women living on campuses in Ontario.
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The 18-year-old will not face charges.
[ More ]August 2017
Despite a million-dollar donation and fundraising, the new mental health assessment and short stay unit at RUH is still in limbo and there is no guarantee it will ever open at all.
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A Texas man has been sentenced to 80 years in prison after pleading guilty to child pornography offences involving a girl from Saskatchewan. Staff Sgt. Scott Lambie, provincial co-ordinator for the RCMP's Internet child exploitation unit, said the investigation started in November 2015 when a local
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Eleven transitional apartments are being developed in Saskatoon to support individuals with HIV or AIDS who are at risk of homelessness following medical stays at Sanctum Care Group.
[ More ]July 2017
It’s our boldest Fighter App campaign so far this year: raising awareness on the global issue of sex trafficking and its connection to porn. Sign up for details on new #StopTheDemand conversation-starting merch and a life-changing prize—a trip to Nepal to volunteer with Help International.
[ More ]July 2017
The Northern John Howard Society will receive $60,000 from the provincial government to train more facilitators to deliver a domestic violence prevention program.
[ More ]July 2017
EDMONTON — A Crown prosecutor says an Alberta man is expected to plead guilty to killing two indigenous Saskatchewan women in 2007 and 2009.
[ More ]After receiving the highest sentence in Saskatchewan history for child pornography offences, Shane Dale Pattison was fresh out of prison in 2015 when he began sharing and viewing thousands of child porn images.
[ More ]June 2017
Indigenous women and girls are being exploited by gangs and other predators with little being done to stop it. The Globe investigates
[ More ]June 2017
Indigenous women and girls are being exploited by gangs and other predators with little being done to stop it. The Globe investigates
[ More ]June 2017
Indigenous women and girls are being exploited by gangs and other predators with little being done to stop it. The Globe investigates
[ More ]May 2017
Indigenous women and girls are being exploited by gangs and other predators with little being done to stop it. The Globe investigates.
[ More ]May 2017
Indigenous women and girls are being exploited by gangs and other predators with little being done to stop it. The Globe investigates
[ More ]May 2017
Indigenous women and girls are being exploited by gangs and other predators with little being done to stop it. The Globe investigates
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Eleven transitional apartments are being developed in Saskatoon to support individuals with HIV or AIDS who are at risk of homelessness following medical stays at Sanctum Care Group.
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For more than 10 years, Russell Dennis Wolfe befriended girls as young as nine years of age and offered them marijuana, cigarettes, alcohol and money in exchange for sex.
[ More ]April 2017
Indigenous women and girls are being exploited by gangs and other predators with little being done to stop it. The Globe investigates
[ More ]April 2017
Indigenous women and girls are being exploited by gangs and other predators with little being done to stop it. The Globe investigates. An eleven part series.
[ More ]April 2017
Indigenous women and girls are being exploited by gangs and other predators with little being done to stop it. The Globe investigates. An eleven part series.
[ More ]April 2017
Witness says woman told police a man tried to kill her, but police say no grounds for laying charges
[ More ]April 2017
Russell Wolfe made child porn with girls he paid for sex
[ More ]April 2017
Indigenous women and girls are being exploited by gangs and other predators with little being done to stop it. The Globe investigates. An eleven part series.
[ More ]March 2017
Indigenous women and girls are being exploited by gangs and other predators with little being done to stop it. The Globe investigates. An eleven part series.
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Girls are recruited in various ways — at school, on Instagram, at the mall. Most continue to live at home while carrying out sex work at local motels or condominiums. According to police, human trafficking doesn't have to involve the crossing of a border. Any forced recruitment, confinement or tran
[ More ]Barbara Amaya ran away at the age of 12 after being abused by family members. She was taken in on the streets of Washington, DC by a couple who seemed nice, but ended up selling her into human trafficking. She was used for months and then sold to a man named Moses who took her to New York and contin
[ More ]March 2017
I'm sharing my story because I want Canadians to understand that sex trafficking is happening here in Canada and I want parents to understand the danger that their daughters could be in -- right in their own neighbourhoods -- or in my case, the local rec center.
[ More ]February 2017
Canada's missing and murdered indigenous women
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TORONTO — A new report says Ontario has become a "major hub" for human trafficking and sexual violence in Canada, with most of the victims being local underage girls and young women.
[ More ]February 2017
For over a decade, I've worked with Canadian survivors of sex trafficking. I want to share with parents how they can protect their daughters.
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This story is part of an ongoing Globe and Mail investigation into the hundreds of missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada.
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Terreia Wadud sees her journey after abuse and being trafficked as amazing.
[ More ]January 2017
Police across Ontario were looking for a serial sex offender Monday after he slipped away from a correctional facility in Kingston on Sunday night.
[ More ]January 2017
Experts say Saskatchewan is one of the few places in the industrialized world where people are still dying from AIDS and HIV infections.
[ More ]January 2017
Owen Gibson-Skeir, 21, is accused of intimidating 'vulnerable, traumatized' victim in court.
[ More ]January 2017
Civil rights activists march in Durban, South Africa, on July 18 at the start of the 21st World Aids Conference. UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon told reporters the gains the world has made against HIV/AIDS are 'inadequate and fragile.' Some activists say the same is true here in Canada.
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A 24-year-old man is facing 18 charges connected to human trafficking.
[ More ]January 2017
Vice chief says reactive response to emergencies will no longer work after three girls between the ages of 12 and 14 took their lives within four days. Two of the girls were from Stanley Mission. The other girl was from La Ronge.
[ More ]January 2017
Saskatoon police are investigating after a woman reported being abducted and sexually assaulted
[ More ]January 2017
An Edmonton man is facing human trafficking charges, including sexually exploiting a teenage girl for profit.
[ More ]December 2016
Detective Shane Henderson, vividly remembers rescuing Mary from a hotel room - where she was being trafficked from.
[ More ]December 2016
A Saskatoon committee is investigating the feasibility of opening a safe injection site in the city
[ More ]December 2016
'It's a death sentence': Post-mortem test for carfentanil could reveal scale of opioid crisis 15 deaths in Alberta linked to carfentanil, an animal tranquilizer increasingly used as a recreational drug
[ More ]December 2016
Other major cities in Canada have mobile outreach programs to monitor vulnerable people, especially when winter temperatures fall.
[ More ]Dozens of people have been arrested, and 16 victims removed from exploitative situations, in a cross-country effort to crack down on human trafficking.
[ More ]December 2016
Man charged earlier this year after forcing multiple women into the sex trade, threatening their families, making them take illegal drugs and branding them with tattoos of his full name
[ More ]December 2016
MISSING AND MURDERED The Trafficked: How sex trafficking works in Canada
[ More ]November 2016
A group of Moncton women have taken it upon themselves to help working girls get off the streets. They’ve started an organization called “the street angels” and hope to spread the movement across the Maritimes and to cities across Canada.
[ More ]November 2016
7 yr old girl was sexually assaulted and sold for sex to others on Craigslist, Hamilton Police allege
[ More ]November 2016
The FBI says dozens of pimps, prostitutes and associates have been arrested under international efforts to combat underage human trafficking.
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Two Montreal men have been charged after Toronto police said they forced a woman into prostitution and threatened to kill her dog if she didn’t continue.
[ More ]There is a clearer picture on how many gains have been made in Saskatchewan when it comes to HIV and AIDS as well as the uphill battle to come. On Tuesday, more than 200 delegates gathered at an HIV mobilization event in Saskatoon to find solutions on where to go from here.
[ More ]November 2016
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A High River, Alta. woman has been charged with multiple counts of human trafficking, procuring persons under 18 years, sexual exploitation of a young person and one count of assault after allegedly recruiting young teens on social media.
[ More ]October 2016
Ontario Provincial Police, with help from law enforcement partners in Canada and the United States, have charged 80 people with 274 criminal offences in connection to a massive province-wide internet child pornography investigation.
[ More ]October 2016
Mackenzie Murphy, 17, talks to kids across Canada about suicide awareness, cyber bullying and building self-esteem.
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Surrey RCMP is asking for the public’s assistance in determining the movements and last known whereabouts of a woman found deceased in Surrey on May 17th of this year.She was recently identified as Deanna DESJARLAIS, age 27, of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
[ More ]32 people charged in human trafficking investigation.
[ More ]October 2016
SASKATOON – Saskatchewan has a health crisis on its hands. The province continues to have the highest rates of HIV in the country at twice the national average and experts say 70 per cent of new cases are among First Nations and Métis people.
[ More ]October 2016
Human trafficking isn't just happening overseas, it's happening right here in Saskatoon
[ More ]Hope & Courage
[ More ]October 2016
Alberta Woman Faces Charges
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countries with top 5 rates
[ More ]October 2016
For decades, Indigenous women in Canada have been disappearing and dying violently at alarming rates.
[ More ]October 2016
Supports for people dealing with mental health or addictions issues in Saskatoon appear to be overloaded, which may be stopping people from getting help before it’s too late.
[ More ]October 2016
HOUSTON -- Handcuffed and dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit, the chief executive of an internet site authorities accuse of being "a hub for the illegal sex trade" waived extradition to California on Friday, and his attorney vowed to fight the "trumped up" sex trafficking and money laundering charge
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People under the age of 18 made up about a quarter of recorded human trafficking victims in Canada between 2009 and 2014, new data reveals.
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Two Montreal men are facing charges in connection with a human trafficking investigation that police say saw a teenage girl forced into the sex trade after connecting with a suspect through Snapchat.
[ More ]September 2016
Body of Deanna Desjarlais, 27, found in Surrey, B.C. RCMP are investigating death, but family of Cree woman say her missing person case was mishandled
[ More ]September 2016
DEANNA'S BODY HAS BEEN FOUND. She was left to die in a wooded area in B.C. Alone. Decomposed. Police found her in May and did not identify her until this week. She deserves justice. Stay tuned. UPDATE: Police are actively investigating. They would like to find out what happened to Deanna as well and
[ More ]September 2016
Canada is a recipient of boys and girls captured by human traffickers, but it is also a source.
[ More ]July 2016
Oskyak School Saskatoon: video project for NASHI's Event on Human Trafficking
[ More ]A Quebec man faces four charges in Saskatoon under the newly proclaimed prostitution law
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Twenty-two Vancouver sex workers identify that the stigma of being a sex worker is one of the most challenging barriers they face when leaving the industry...
[ More ]Owen Ross Gibson-Skeir, 20, faces charges including sexual assault and advertising sexual services.
[ More ]The girls who went missing from a group home in Laval could just be the tip of the iceberg. Authorities believe they were sexually exploited by street gangs, but some insist the bigger issue is human trafficking
[ More ]An Alberta group that works to fight human trafficking says there has been a "massive increase" in the number of cases reported and front-line healthcare workers could be key in identifying victims.
[ More ]A ruling in a Toronto court opens the door to designating human traffickers as dangerous offenders.
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A city task force proposed a list of recommendations on Monday to make Edmonton's body rub parlours safer for those who work in the industry.
[ More ]April 2016
The federal government is trying to keep a convicted sex offender and human trafficker in a B.C. jail pending his deportation to Iraq.
[ More ]March 2016
Human trafficking does not always involve physically moving anyone anywhere – the legal definition is recruiting, harbouring, transporting or controlling the movement of a person for the purpose of exploitation.
[ More ]March 2016
Indigenous women and girls are being exploited by gangs and other predators with little being done to stop it.
[ More ]20 people rescued during investigation, some as young as 14 years old, most under 19.
[ More ]February 2016
Human trafficking is a Canadian problem and most people have no idea...
[ More ]February 2016
Adolescent girls who are placed into group homes may be targeted by street gangs and lured into prostitution
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When it comes to the inquiry of missing and murdered Indigenous women , Canada's Liberal government fails to acknowledge the laws that endanger sex workers.
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Nova Scotia's new "Say Something if You see Something" campaign asking local businesses to keep an educated eye out for human trafficking activities.
[ More ]February 2016
Sex Trade on my Terms was established one year ago as a drop-in program for sex workers where they can warm up, grab some food and engage in non-judgemental company with other women.
[ More ]February 2016
Despite C-36's target of clients and third-parties, women on the street identify the police as their biggest concern. Because of the criminality of their mere presence, street-based workers are often charged for non-sex work related issues.
[ More ]January 2016
Saskatoon is permissive, Regina is dismissive
[ More ]January 2016
Millions of women and girls around the world are exploited in the commercial sex industry, mainly in prostitution, which is often the end destination of sex trafficking.
[ More ]January 2016
A type of "tough love" is aimed at keeping youth safe and away from sexual predators. But is confinement the bests strategy for Alberta's exploited youth?
[ More ]December 2015
Canada's new prostitution laws went into effect over the weekend, and already they are prompting concern and doubt. And confusion - always good when you're at risk of jail time if you don't understand the law.
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The road to street prostitution is often dirty and mired with abuse from a young age. An inner-city youth program in Saskatoon has become a refuge for children and teens being pressured and often forced into the sex trade.
[ More ]December 2015
A prostitute rescue program that has turned lives around is now on hold because police are no langer laying prostitution charges in Saskatoon, says a man who helped run it.
[ More ]December 2015
The Supreme Court decision to abolish prostitution laws would mainly affect street-level prostitution in Saskatoon if the laws aren't amended within a year, according to police chief Clive Weighill.
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