Almost two weeks after the writs had dropped in the BC election the only mention of the Missing Women's Commission of Inquiry (MWCI) and the important issues surrounding marginalized sex workers were by a Conservative candidate who thinks the inquiry was a waste of time.

Hardly the talk...

Last year, as the craze surrounding Fifty Shades of Grey grew, with more and more stories about it appearing in media and as its cover became ubiquitous in book store displays, I tried reading it. Not because I had any high hopes that Twilight fan-fiction dressed up in...

As a sex positive advocate, fetish event promoter, and editor of Erotic Vancouver Magazine, the passage from one year to another always marks the time when people start asking what I thought THE events of the year were, and what are my can't-miss events of the year ahead.

Wally Oppal is a good man. He's a good judge, as evidenced by his time on the bench and his bold heading of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into Policing in British Columbia, more commonly known as the Oppal Inquiry, in the early '90s.

And, of course, the former attorney...

It's 6:30 p.m. on a Saturday and there's a full house in The Cellar nightclub on Vancouver's Granville Street. It's unusual for a bar in the Entertainment District to attract a crowd this early in the evening, but then this is an unusual crowd for any night that isn't Halloween....

Independent counsel Jason Gratl has prepared a damning report to the B.C. Missing Women's Inquiry that's looking into the years before the arrest of convicted killer Robert William Pickton. Titled "Wouldn't Piss On Them If They Were on Fire": How Discrimination Against Sex Workers, Drug Users and Aboriginal...

Compare the budget for B.C.'s Missing Women's Inquiry (approaching $7 million) and the amounts charged by those working for the commission with what's spent by frontline charities like WISH and PACE that actually work with sex trade workers in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES.)

PACE and WISH are...