Over the past two weeks, we Canadians enthusiastically cheered on our athletes as they have competed for Olympic glory on our home soil in Vancouver. I, along with countless others, was so proud to watch our men and women vying to be the best in the world, and was filled with patriotism as the Maple Leaf was hoisted over the medal podium. I extend my warmest congratulations to all our Canadian athletes.
Unfortunately, there was also a dark side to the Olympic Games in Vancouver: human trafficking.
Similar to many other large sporting events where the demand for paid sex spikes, young women and girls were trafficked to Vancouver from across Canada to be sexually exploited for the gratification and profit of others.
As the 2010 Games began, the Citizens Summit Against Sex Slavery issued a press release noting that front-line agencies in Vancouver had witnessed an increase in underage youth being bought and sold for sex on the streets of Vancouver. Even before the Games began, pimps and traffickers were posting ads on Craigslist to anonymously sell young women for sex.
Toronto Escorts: Seamy side to Olympics Canada’s shame
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Toronto Escorts: ‘A crime that shames us all’
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Timea Nagy arrived in Toronto from Budapest in 1998, the victim of a trafficker who had promised her a job. Instead, she was forced to work in the sex trade. Using a Hungarian-English dictionary to ask for help, she managed to escape after three months and later testified against her traffickers in court. She succeeded in building a new life and in 2009, established Walk with Me, to help victims of trafficking.
Nagy says the focus should be on helping victims and preventing trafficking. She commends the new approach taken by the York Region Police in the Toronto area, who have started to view women in the sex trade as likely victims and concentrate on building the case against pimps and traffickers who threaten victims or tell them they will be charged. If the girls read in the newspaper that the police are taking a different approach, that the girls are [considered] victims of trafficking and exploitation, more and more girls will come forward, she says.
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Toronto Escorts: Toronto serial rapist arrested in Vancouver
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In 1996, Davidson was charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault of a sex worker by Vancouver police. He was found with a rape kit that included tape, a knife and other potential weapons when arrested by Vancouver police responding to the calls of a woman screaming in a back lane.
See the full article from “Toronto Sun”
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Toronto Escorts: Lady Gaga Talks Fashion, Tweets A Photo Of Her With Alexander McQueen
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Lady Gaga, who was decked out in McQueen attire in her “Bad Romance” video, posted a photo of herself with the London designer on Twitter this morning. (See it below.) She also talked to CNN about the need to always wear outfits her fans can knock off.
Alexander McQueen and Lady Gaga, as posted on Twitter this morning:
“For me it’s important to always keep that connection with my fans,” Gaga told CNN when asked about choosing her outfits. “So no matter what I’m wearing—whether it’s high fashion and it was on the runway last week or it’s a leather jacket I found in a vintage shop—I need to create things and wear things that they can always replicate.”
In case you think she’s pulling your leg, here’s a gallery of Gaga’s monsters pimping her style.
See the full article from “Idolator: All About The Music (blog)”
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