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I seem to recall that while the Bedford v Canada case was in the Ont Court of Appeals, one of the parties involved kept a blog of what the questions/arguments were like every day. Does anyone know if that will be active while the case is in the supreme court, and if so what's the url?

Has Harper or anyone in the Govt commented yet to say what they intend to do? Whether it be another appeal or re-writing the law etc.?

Well there's already specific laws prohibiting human trafficking (s. 279) that are untouched by this decision, so if the courts were solely concerned with the human trafficking aspect they could have struck down s. 210 completely and still been able to prosecute people who are trafficking.

The first part of the decision is: S. 197 of the (old) criminal code reads: So if I'm reading this right, being found in a bawdy house is still illegal, but prostitution being practiced on the premises isn't sufficient proof that a premises is a bawdy house. They have to prove that it is...

Well it's 11. Who else is hitting f5 at the globe and mail homepage?

Did you actually read all that I wrote? I'm absolutely ok with a pregnancy being terminated in any way, at any time, with no consequences. I implied that in my previous posts, I didn't think I'd have to explicitly state it. Another point I was trying to make is who the fuck cares what was said...

Being an atheist, I can safely say that yes a kidney has a soul exactly the way a full human does. But you missed my point, in my example the fetus is comparable to the recipient of the kidney (who its presumed would die without it).

I think the abortion 'debate' in Canada is largely obscured my American media debates on the issue. Even if the government were successful in defining life as beginning at conception, that would only be a small step in curtailing abortion rights. An excerpt from the Supreme Court decision in R...

I didn't realize that was an SCC decision, I thought it was just one of those bizarre over-looked laws. It kind of makes sense of the current batch of nonsensical laws though.

Are the court transcripts available? Or are they not made public until the hearing is over?

Theoretically they could, but they'd face an incredible amount of political backlash. With prostitution the backlash would probably be less, and considering the conservatives had an election win just a few months ago it could be up to 4.5 years before they're at the polls again. By then any...

It's not just the laws though, my lease prohibits me from running any kind of business from my apartment.

What concerns me about this case is that the entire challenge rests on the fact that prostitution in and of itself is legal. In the event that the decision is upheld the government could just make it illegal and the entire case is moot. If that were to happen I'd expect a massive LE crackdown on...

Wasn't there a charter challenge to the "living off of avails" and "bawdy house" laws a few months back? What ever happened with that?

I've won 2 donuts and like 10 coffees. And I live in a shithole town about 120 km from TO. Maybe Tim's is trying to shaft Torontonians.