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TORONTO – One of my most memorable stories this past year involved a leather-clad dominatrix who called Prime Minister Stephen Harper a “very bad, bad boy” in need of punishment for the country’s current anti-prostitution laws.
With a whip in her hand, long time sex worker Terri-Jean Bedford stood outside the Ontario highest court last June and insinuated she’d give Harper the same treatment she gave her clients if the laws didn’t change.
Bedford is one of the plaintiffs and the face of one of the most controversial and polarizing court cases in the country right now.
She and two other sex workers say their constitutional rights to security are being breached because current laws force them to work underground and prevent them from protecting themselves from violent pimps and johns.

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TORONTO – The mother at the centre of a case involving a missing dead infant is a former prostitute and drug user who once witnessed a shooting.
Nadia Ayyad, 23, made a brief appearance at Newmarket , Ont., court Thursday after being arrested a day earlier and charged in connection with the disappearance and death of her baby son George Doodhnaught.
Baby George’s father, Ricky Ray Doodhnaught, was arrested earlier in December.
Ayyad, with long black hair hanging limp over her shoulders and dark circles under her eyes, stood in the prisoner’s box, hands clasped in front of her.
It wasn’t her first time in a court of law.
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London court also heard that Ayyad had aspirations of being an exotic dancer, but that she had unwittingly been brought to London to be pimped out as a prostitute.

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George Stamos, in his second appearance at Dancemakers, mines queer politics in Liklik Pik, a duet for two men, in the first program. Peter Bingham/EDAM, also making a return engagement to Dancemakers, offers a playful yet complex exchange between two men, in Right in Front of You. On the same program, emerging dance maker Andrea Spaziani contemplates the possibility of really feeling ready to perform in The Moment Before. The third program presents the Toronto debut of German artist Martin Nachbar in Repeater, an intergenerational work with his 73 year old father.
Program 1 – George StamosHumans have long been interested in examining the distinctions and similarities between themselves and other animals. Inspired by his own fascination, following imaginative impulses and convergent queer tangents along the way, George Stamos pursues this curiosity in Liklik Pik, a cross-media duet for ‘pigs’.
Living and working in Montreal, contemporary choreographer Stamos was a sex-worker’s rights and AIDS activist from 1987-1993 and a go-go dancer from 1989-2000. He studied choreography and improvisation at The School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam and his work has been presented across Canada, the US and in Europe.

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… Suspicious’ death probed above Jilly’s strip club
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By Tom Godfrey ,Toronto Sun First posted: Monday, December 19, 2011 09:30 AM EST | Updated: Monday, December 19, 2011 09:36 AM EST
TORONTO - 
Toronto Police are probing the suspicious death of a woman whose body was found on the top floor of an east-end strip club.
Detectives are trying to determine if the 49-year-old woman worked as a dancer at Jilly’s bar and strip club in the Queen St. E. and Broadview Ave. area.
Const. Tony Vella said Monday morning a body was found around 10 p.m. Sunday in a suite above the club, which has been a fixture in Riverdale for many years.
“The victim appeared to have suffered trauma to the body,” Vella said. “A post-mortem examination will be conducted.”

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Mon Dec. 19 2011 9:25:04 AM | cp24.com
Woman’s death being treated as suspicious
A Toronto police identification services vehicle is parked at Queen Street East and Broadview Avenue after a woman’s body was found inside a building at the intersection late Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011. (CP24/Tom Stefanac)
Toronto police say the death of a woman whose body was found in a building at Queen Street East and Broadview Avenue is considered suspicious.
The body of a woman in her 40s was found late Sunday night in a suite above Jilly’s, a strip club and bar.
Homicide detectives have been notified of the death, but they haven’t been called in to investigate.
An autopsy is scheduled to determine if foul play was a factor in the woman’s death.
Police taped off an entrance to the building and brought in forensic investigators to look for evidence at the scene.

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Leanne Freeman, 23, was found with a gunshot wound to the head Nov. 29. (Facebook photo)
TORONTO - 
A Whitby man was arrested Friday — just 18 days after sex worker Leanne Freeman was found dying from a bullet wound on a lonely street in the Port Lands district of Toronto.
His arrest came 16 1/2 hours after another man accused of dumping the 23-year-old victim’s clothes and other property in an industrial trash bin was apprehended by Toronto Police.
Freeman, who had a history of drug abuse but no criminal record while living in Winnipeg, returned this summer to Toronto, where she had lived for several years before moving west.
She was known to police in Manitoba to have worked in the sex trade, but her activities in Toronto have not been disclosed.

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TORONTO A Whitby, Ont., man was arrested Friday — just 18 days after sex worker Leanne Freeman was found dying from a bullet wound in the Portland’s area of Toronto.
His arrest came 16 1/2 hours after another man accused of dumping the 23-year-old victim’s clothes and other property in an industrial trash bin was apprehended by Toronto Police.
Freeman, who had a history of drug abuse but no criminal record while living in Winnipeg, returned this summer to Toronto, where she had lived for several years before moving west.
She was known to police in Manitoba to have worked in the sex trade, but her activities in Toronto have not been disclosed.
Homicide Det.-Sgt. Brian Borg said Freeman and her accused killer “were acquaintances,” who had known each other for a very short time.

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TORONTO — Police will issue updates Friday in the murders of a prostitute last month and a cold case dating back to 1981.

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TORONTO Police will issue updates Friday in the murders of a prostitute last month and a cold case dating back to 1981.
At 2 p.m., Det-Sgt. Steve Ryan will announce the arrest of a suspect in the June 23, 1981, murder of Donna Anne Proian. The 30-year-old was stabbed and strangled inside her luxury penthouse apartment.
Her husband, Charles, found the University of Toronto secretary’s body soon after receiving a call that she hadn’t shown up for work.
Det-Sgt. Brian Borg will update the investigation into the death of Leanne Freeman, 23, of Winnipeg, who was shot and dumped on a street in the Port Lands on Nov. 29.
Freeman had a history of drug abuse and was known to police but didn’t have a criminal record.

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A Toronto police officer holds a firearm Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011, after it was seized during a Project Marvel raid. (CP24/Sue Sgambati)
Toronto police are promising to ramp up their presence in several neighbourhoods after a massive police sting resulted in the seizure of 27 guns, $110,000 in cash and an unknown quantity of illicit drugs.
An eight-month investigation, Project Marvel culminated in simultaneous raids, involving more than 900 police officers, in Toronto, London, Hamilton, Durham, York and Peel regions, Windsor, Ottawa, Calgary and Surrey, B.C. early Tuesday morning.
Sixty people were arrested and 396 criminal charges were laid as a result of the raids, which targeted two street gangs — the Young Buck Killaz and the G Siders.
Charges against the 60 arrested suspects — including 10 young offenders — include attempted murder, firearms trafficking/importation, drug trafficking and robbery, as well as shooting and prostitution offences.

See the full article from “CP24″