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The mom she likes to remember — before crack and prostitution took its toll.
“I didn’t know it had gotten to that point,” says her 34-year-old daughter, her tears pouring across the long distance line. “Maybe there is a chance to help her one last time.”
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Their happy reunion, though, was short-lived. When Gale’s boyfriend left her for her best friend, her daughter says she fell apart and sank back into a cesspool of crack and prostitution.
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One of the last times she saw her, Gale had been arrested again for prostitution and Poole was pregnant with her second child and caring for her younger half-brother and sister. It was in the jail visiting room that she finally knew that to survive, she could no longer afford to expend any more of her energy on trying to save an addict who didn’t want to be saved.

See the full article from “Toronto Sun”

How do you know the Olympics are coming? The hookers have arrived! Yes, a report out of Vancouver this week noted that “thousands of prostitutes are expected to descend on the West Coast city” to cash in on the swelling numbers of fans, media and Olympic employees. Did you say “media”? Ahem. “Cha-ching!” exalted one local escort. “If you know how to work it, it could be huge. You’re damn right.” We’re guessing the standard rates still apply. But the “biathlon” can get a little pricey… From the Dept. of Huh?: San Francisco 49ers tight end Vernon Davis has been named the honorary captain of the U.S. Olympic men’s curling team. Davis has already made several public service announcements for the roaring game. The “captain” will be spending a few days at the Games, including a VIP experience at the Vancouver Curling Club. Said Davis to the New York Times: “I look forward to learning more and meeting those guys and finding out what their practice is like.” Well, Vernon, football practice is a lot like curling practice, only “two-a-days” are the number of Tylenol you take after a night in the Patch.

See the full article from “Winnipeg Free Press”

Fact and more than one fictional creation would find an uneasy alliance in a most unexpected revelation. Dracula was published in 1897, though it’s now generally accepted that Stoker’s reliance on a firm calendar structure places its events in the year 1893. Could they have been inspired by events still earlier – the Jack the Ripper murders that became such a cause célèbre in the London of 1888? The murder of (at least) five prostitutes loomed so large and the killer remained so elusive that the all-too-real case took on an almost supernatural dimens­ion – aided no doubt by the calculating work of journalists who effectively created the persona of Jack the Ripper and may even have inadvertently spurred on the actual killer. An interaction with fiction began at once. Robert Louis Stevenson’s immensely popular novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde had been published in 1886, was dramatised the following year and in 1888 became a starr­ing vehicle for actor Richard Mansfield, appearing at th …

See the full article from “Fortean Times”

Fowler said there is no clear motive but the conflict may have been over a dispute between James and another drug dealer, who wanted to violate James rules on selling drugs in his Regent Park neighbourhood.
The Crown is expected to seek the maximum youth penalty which amounts to seven years of custody followed by three years in a halfway house.
The youth, known as JD and who cannot be legally identified because he was 16 at the time of the murder, was dressed nattily in a charcoal-gray pin-striped suit with neat hair in cornrows.
In the agreed statement of facts, the youth was accompanied by an older man, known as a Scarborough gang member who was driving the stolen Beck Taxi, and a street prostitute known as Jennifer, during the slaying.

See the full article from “CANOE”

Port-au-Prince was a stopover on a two-week Caribbean cruise we ran between Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and San Francisco.
I published the ship’s daily newspaper.
Though I worked for the cruise company, I had my own double passenger cabin and had to wear a tux to dinner every night.
We ate caviar and filet mignon and lobster tail and sipped fine wines.
So to step onto the sweltering dock in Port-au-Prince was a shock to the senses and sensibilities. To venture into Port-au-Prince was to enter a world opposite of the ship’s pampered luxury.
No U.S. slum could match Port-au-Prince for its hopelessness, etched into the faces of its people and reflected in their glassy stares.
A hot, tangible stench hung over the city.
I recall garbage in the gutters, young prostitutes on many corners and, most notably, a lack of smiles, even on the faces of children.

See the full article from “The Salinas Californian”

ntil recently Richmond Hill’s charming Yonge Street thoroughfare was marred by the presence of a derelict strip club, housed in a pink-painted building with a large parking lot.
Today in its place stands a mid-rise condominium project that is among the jewels in the Ontario town’s crown. With 104 suites, four storeys stepping up to seven, it boasts a street-level courtyard and burgeoning commercial space now coming to life as businesses move in.
“This is a fine example of a mid-rise development,” says Patrick Lee, director of planning policy for the town. “It fits in very well with the context of Richmond Hill.”
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Yet developers in Ontario can face significant hurdles when it comes to planning mid-rise buildings. Replace a strip club? Great, but the planning and approval process may still take years and send developers to municipal regulatory bodies for approval.

See the full article from “Globe and Mail”

Until recently Richmond Hill’s charming Yonge Street thoroughfare was marred by the presence of a derelict strip club, housed in a pink-painted building with a large parking lot.
Today in its place stands a mid-rise condominium project that is among the jewels in the Ontario town’s crown. With 104 suites, four storeys stepping up to seven, it boasts a street-level courtyard and burgeoning commercial space now coming to life as businesses move in.
“This is a fine example of a mid-rise development,” says Patrick Lee, director of planning policy for the town. “It fits in very well with the context of Richmond Hill.”
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Yet developers in Ontario can face significant hurdles when it comes to planning mid-rise buildings. Replace a strip club? Great, but the planning and approval process may still take years and send developers to municipal regulatory bodies for approval.

See the full article from “ReportonBusiness.com”

Hundreds of New Yorkers with an exhibitionist streak spent Sunday afternoon riding the subways in boxers, briefs and lacy panties during the ninth annual No Pants Subway Ride, despite chilly weather.The group Improv Everywhere, a group that says its mission is to cause `scenes of chaos and joy in public places,` organized the stunt.” Read More
Many newspapers covering this event featured photographs of beautiful women in underwear riding the subway. But I know how crowded the New York City subways are, and with my luck I`d be standing next to two old guys in their tidy whities. (or maybe not so tidy)
If Improv Everywhere scheduled the next No Pants Subway Ride in the middle of the summer, they would have thousands of participants.
Participants were told to act like nothing unusual was going on. Bad advice! If the ladies were advised to use the poles you hold on to as stripper poles, there would have been more joy and less chaos.

See the full article from “Student Operated Press”

Its causing a bit of a financial crisis for us, Davis says. Were all relying on the local clientele right now. As more and more (sex) workers come here, our income is being divided even more.
Davis says that recently she went two days without getting a single call from a client. Never in my career has that happened before.
Davis acknowledges that there will be a brief flurry of business while the Olympics are on, but warns any out-of-town escorts to make sure they have a plan in place before heading out there to cash in on it.
One girl I know came out here from Calgary, thinking she could just find a job at a massage parlour, but no one was hiring. She came without a lot of money in her pocket because she was expecting to be working right away and it just wasnt there. She got stuck.

See the full article from “CANOE”

Then there’s the papers:  The Miami Herald, right, splashes the Haiti quake on its front pages for a readership that includes a large number of Haitians. The Los Angeles Times reports that California ACORN will hold to its traditional agenda, but is breaking with its embattled parent organization. The New York Times profiles former Rep. Harold Ford, Jr., D-Tenn., who is testing the waters for a possible run for the Senate from New York. The Dallas Morning News says the new George W. Bush policy institute will co-produce a weekly TV show called Ideas in Action for public television and some cable stations. The Seattle Times says local Vancouver activists plan to showcase another side of the city during the Winter Games to note chronic homelessness, open drug dealing, prostitution and mental illness only blocks from the Olympic venues.

See the full article from “USA Today”