Category: Editorials

by: Eve Anderson/ February 20, 2010 Lorna Dueck’s Globe and Mail article “Sex For Sale is Hardly Sporting” is misguided and misleading. Click HERE to read the article. Ms. Dueck fails to make a distinction between adult sex workers and child prostitutes. That she

SPOC condemns Craigslist’s decision to ban its Erotic Services category. By capitulating to the recent bad publicity, the website is conceding that it played a part in the murder of our colleague. It did not. The murderer is the one

Our murdered colleagues in Vancouver. Our hearts go out to all families and friends of our murdered sisters. Hearing the evidence from this trial will be one of the most difficult things for anyone connected to our profession, which is

by Sarah Jasper I can be pretty sure that my neighbours, in any location I may want to live, will be neutral or pleasant to me, and that I will not be followed or harassed by them. I can be

The court has refused to hear a constitutional case that our B.C. colleagues have brought forward with PIVOT Legal Society. SPOC vehemently rejects Justice William Ehrcke ruling. It is yet another insult to our colleagues’ valuable contributions. Simply because the

The Canadian justice system still doesn’t get it. There are so many things about this case including the testimony of Wayne Ryczak, sentenced to one day plus 14 months time served for the killing of 29-year-old Stephanie Beck, to make

The Globe and Mail article can be found on our news page, or by clicking HERE On December 21, 1985, the communicating law, Section 213 of the Canadian Criminal Code came into existence. Shortly afterwards, our colleagues began disappearing. This law

On Sunday December 9th, Robert William Pickton was convicted by a jury of the second degree murder of six sex workers and now awaits trial for the murder of 20 more. SPOC extends our heartfelt condolences to the families, loved

The CBC article can be found on our news page, or by clicking HERE Nicole’s feeble attempt to rationalize her and the other members of the groups’ actions with the excuse that it’s just an ” expression of anger ” about

The CBC article can be found on our news page, or by clicking HERE Nicole’s feeble attempt to rationalize her and the other members of the groups’ actions with the excuse that it’s just an ” expression of anger ” about

More than sixty women have gone missing from Vancouver’s East Side the majority since the mid 1980’s. Most were sex workers – many of them Aboriginal women. This week the trial for Robert William Pickton began. Charged with killing six