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… Once you try it, you get hooked on it and you always need it,” Lyons said from her home in Owen Sound, where she is a student at Georgian College. “You spiral down and lose sight of anything else … It’s a never-ending thing. You know (you’re addicted), but the drugs blindfold you.”
A couple of years after Lyons first gave birth in 2003, child services, knowing of Lyons’ lifestyle, were about to move in to take the child from her. Lyons’ mother, however, stepped in to take custody of the baby instead.
Alone and depressed, Lyons went on a “free-for-all” of drug abuse, propelling her habit by turning tricks and selling dope. It wouldn’t be until the winter of 2008 — while Lyons was in custody and charged with dealing coke — that she discovered she was pregnant for a second time.

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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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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.
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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Project Marvel delved into the criminal operations of two Toronto gangs — the Young Buck Killas and the G-Siders. Police say their criminal activities spread well beyond their base in northwest Toronto, expanding as far west as B.C.
Supt. Chris White of the organized crime unit said 396 criminal charges have been filed against the accused.
“The investigation continues; we have some unfinished business that we need to further investigate, ” said White. “We’re confident we’ve made a dent in some of the organized crime that has been plaguing some of these communities.”
Youth among arrested
More than 900 officers executed 67 search warrants simultaneously across Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia.
Of the approximately 60 people taken into custody, about 10 are young offenders, police said.
Investigators say Project Marvel involved criminal organization offences, attempted murder, firearms trafficking and importation, drug trafficking, robbery, shootings, prostitution and other crimes.

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Police promise strong presence in wake of raids
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.

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The Young Buck Killas and the G Siders were nabbed when more than 900 police officers executed 67 search warrants simultaneously in Toronto, Windsor, Hamilton, London and Ottawa in Ontario; Saskatoon; Calgary, Edmonton, Fort McMurray, Alta., and Surry and Vancouver, B.C.
The raids were part of the Toronto-based Project Marvel, which involved criminal organization offences, attempted murder, firearms trafficking and importation, drug trafficking, robbery, shootings, prostitution and other criminal offences, police said.
Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair said the probe was launched in May following a violent street robbery and shooting.
But the scope of the project wasn’t realized until police in London, Ont. — already targeting some of the same people — arrested a number of people tied to the YBK during a car stop in connection with the robbery, Blair said.
Now, the accused, including 10 youths, are facing charges in connection with attempt murders, drugs, weapons trafficking, prostitution and pimping, and possibly murder.

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This is because the Salvation Army is run by the Evangelical church, and the core positions on things like gay sex, abortion, family, pornography, sex work and euthanasia never change.
In Toronto, the Sally Ann gets tax dollars from the City, as well as millions in funding from the Province and federal government to operate about a hundred social services projects in the GTA, according to the 2006 Torontoist story.
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This holiday, consider giving your money to a charity that doesn’t take such a moralistic view toward sex. There are many other charities and organizations that do great ethical work, and some that are really close to home like the 519 Church St Community Centre, the LGBT Youth Line or Maggie’s: Toronto’s Sex Worker Action Project, which has been on the frontlines help the city’s most marginalized people for 25 years and desperately needs support. There are many charities out there that don’t support hate.

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… More Images »  Police arrested 60 people, including 10 young offenders, across the country early Tuesday morning after executing dozens of search warrants in a massive operation called Project Marvel.Photograph by: Don Healy, Leader-Post files
Police arrested 60 people, including 10 young offenders, across the country early Tuesday morning after executing dozens of search warrants in a massive operation called Project Marvel.
More than 900 police officers, including nearly 400 tactical officers, were involved in the operation, which was launched after a probe into two Toronto street gangs.
The ongoing investigation looked into offences such as attempted murder, firearms trafficking and importation, drug trafficking, robbery, shootings and prostitution.
More arrests were anticipated, and police estimated that 300 charges will be laid.
At a news conference on Tuesday, Toronto police said the case began in May, after an isolated incident involving a street robbery and shooting in the city’s Jane and Finch neighbourhood.

See the full article from “Montreal Gazette”