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Protests should be limited Friday when more than 60,000 people assemble at BC Place Stadium for the first indoor Opening Ceremony – the culmination of a 106-day Olympic torch relay. No word on whether the red-gloved, cartoon kangaroo in the athletes’ village that drew the ire of the International Olympic Committee will be part of the festivities.
Still, many Canadians are angered over a 17-day Olympics projected to cost $5.6 billion. Vancouver officials forecast roughly $4 billion in benefits from hosting the Olympics – a small fortune, some argue, considering $1.9 billion spent on a light rail line, $825 million on a media center, $748 million on a highway and $580 million on venues.
And part of a $1.75 billion operating budget includes more than $900 million on security, topping the original estimate by about $725 million. That presumably doesn’t count extra money spent policing Vancouver’s salty Downtown Eastside, not a tourist destination for 350,000 visitors, unless they want to hang with homeless, drug addicts and prostitutes.

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The bonuses, he concedes with a smile, have
nothing to do with his skill as a high school
teacher. Over the years, whenever workers
would strike, they would in some cases get a
bonus, he said, as he sat in a local union
office here.
For decades, both conservative and socialist
governments in Greece have rewarded the
demands of public sector unions with higher
pay and more jobs.
In 2009, striking farmers were paid 400
million euros by the government and this
year they are back again, having briefly
closed Greeces border with Bulgaria.
Protesting dockworkers extracted big payouts
from the government in November. And the
countrys tax collectors went on strike on
Thursday even though their services are needed
more than ever.
Striking is a bit of a national sport in
Greece. Last month, the countrys unionized
prostitutes took to the streets, protesting
unlicensed competition from Russian and
Eastern European immigrants.

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… People view these welfare polices as acquired rights,” said Jordi Gal, an economist who leads the Centre for Research in International Economics in Barcelona. ”If the Spanish government were to stop paying the fees for students at universities or any move in that direction, there would be a major social uprising.”
Greece, for example, most recently promised certain corrective measures aimed at solving the crisis. They include a public salary freeze, an increase in petrol taxes, and a hike in the retirement age. However the moves have upset the labour unions more than they have assuaged market sentiment. How seriously upset are workers and certain groups in the affected countries? Well, never mind the potentially raging Spanish students; now, even the prostitutes of Greece have taken to…strike action as Greece grapples with its debt.

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Lisa Berry as Mayme and Raven Dauda as Esther in Intimate Apparel, now playing at the Bluma Appel Theatre. Photo by David Hou.
THEATRE: It’s all about love this week—love and the funny/depressing/sexy/kinky stuff that goes with it. Canstage’s latest production includes at least one of those things. Intimate Apparel follows Esther, an African-American seamstress whose financial independence depends upon the elegant corsets and other undergarments she sews for socialites and prostitutes. Amid the ragtime music of Scott Joplin, Esther dreams of opening her own boutique, moves to New York City, and falls for a man halfway around the world. Intimate Apparel was written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Lynn Nottage, and has won several awards, including the 2004 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play, and the Canadian production won the 2008 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Costume Design. Bluma Appel Theatre (27 Front Street East), 8 p.m., $20–64.

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If the organisers are ready for their big day, so are the protestors of the Olympic Resistance Network. Their objections range from anti-globalisation and anti-capitalism tirades about the role of large corporate sponsors such as Coca-Cola and Samsung to the alleged waste of money on a sporting extravaganza when central Vancouver is blighted by pockets of desperate poverty.
When the Games kicks off, Vancouver will proudly showcase its picture-postcard setting – a stunning city skyline surrounded by water and mountains – and a culture and cuisine that have long earned it the tag of “one of the most liveable cities on earth”.
But just a few streets away from major Olympic venues, in the Downtown Eastside district, the squalid scenes are almost unimaginable for an affluent First World city. Addicts openly shoot up drugs in alleyways, the homeless bed down in bunks in a church converted into a temporary shelter, strung-out street prostitutes mumble incoherently and men in ragged clothing sell detritus recovered from skips and rubbish bins.

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TORONTO— An upcoming forum aimed at raising awareness about Canada’s sex-trade industry runs the risk of glamorizing an underground sector that has often exploited the poor and marginalized, some critics caution.
The Sex Workers Event on Feb. 18 in Hamilton, has been organized by the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre and Hamilton Artists Inc., as part of an ongoing series on different employment sectors.
“We’re doing this event in an empowering kind of way,” the event’s co-ordinator, Ian Jarvis, said on Friday. “We want to get an honest, open perspective out there of what it’s like to do the work that they do . . . “
It’s being billed as one of the first of its kind in the country.
The public forum will feature a panel of local Hamilton sex workers — prostitutes, strippers, escorts and porn stars — who will speak openly about their experiences in the industry and worker safety concerns.

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VANCOUVER – Olympic fever is taking hold in Metro Vancouver’s sex industry, with businesses and workers preparing to welcome a deluge of visitors.
Vancouver’s most prominent strip club is planning Olympic-themed decorations, but keeping them secret for fear of a clampdown by Olympics authorities. And one Metro Vancouver escort service is hiring dozens of women from across the country for the Games – and is already catering to Olympics-related demand.
In Vancouver, hotel doormen, bell captains and concierges who refer guests to entertainment venues have been warning Brandy Sarionder to expect hordes of clients at her high-end strip club Brandi’s and her massage parlour The Swedish Touch, she says.
“We’ve been told that however busy we think we’re going to be, we’re going to be a thousand times busier than that,” Sarionder says.

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The expert’s account of how she won a rare invitation to the island — and the imaginary stripping and prostitution that helped pay her imaginary boat fare — was a bizarre highlight of a legal conference on hate crimes this week in Toronto, attended by senior judges, Crowns and defense lawyers, chiefs of police and politicians.
Ms. Corb, who asked that her first name be witheld, is an Open Source Intelligence Operations Specialist for the Hate Crime Extremism Investigative Team, a joint effort of 13 Ontario police forces. “I act as an agent of the police,” she said, but she is not an officer.
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She also showed video of a Second Life pole-dancer — “I’m sorry if this offensive,” she said — to illustrate her anecdote about needing to raise Second Life play-money to pay for the ferry to the island, and turning first to stripping and then prostitution.

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The 2010 Winter Olympics are just days away – and brothels in Vancouver are preparing for an onslaught!
‘Faster, higher, further’ – in the light of the latest information from Vancouver, maybe the Olympic motto should be ‘Faster, harder, wilder’…
BILD has already reported how the Games organisers in Canada have been distributing so-called ‘safe kits’ with condoms to Olympic athletes, coaches and observers.
Now Brandy Sarionder, the owner of a strip club and massage parlour, told the ‘Vancouver Sun’: “We’ve been told that however busy we think we’re going to be, we’re going to be a thousand times busier than that.”
She added: “I’m a little worried about my staff burning out.”
Is it really possible that prostitutes fear burnout from all the Olympic visitors?
The city of 600,000 residents faces the greatest influx in its history with brothels facing greater demand than during the World Exhibition in 1986.

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Official Trailer for “Chloe,” Starring Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore
The official trailer for “Chloe” has landed, and while it’s not the soft-core bonanza (you’ve been warned) of the previous international version, it looks like director Atom Egoyan has returned to his old form.
Moore plays a wife who hires a prostitute Seyfried, to test the fidelity of her husband, Neeson. This being Egoyan, you know things will get hairy, and they do as Seyfried goes above and beyond Moore’s call of duty, and Moore herself begins to fall for Seyfried’s — ahem — charms.

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